Emotion expression in body action and posture

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1085-1101

  Dael, Nele ^a   Mortillaro, Marcello ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Emotion; Expression; Gesture; Posture

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; PANIC;

EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GESTURES; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84874476803     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025737     Document Type: Article

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