The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Acerbi, Alberto ^a,b   Lampos, Vasileios ^c   Garnett, Philip ^d   Bentley, R Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MOOD; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AFFECT; BOOKS; EMOTIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 84875135704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059030     Document Type: Article

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