Agency and Facial Emotion Judgment in Context

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 763-776

  Ito, Kenichi ^a   Masuda, Takahiko ^b   Man Wai Li, Liman ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

agency; context effect; cross cultural differences; East Asians; facial emotion evaluation; North Americans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGENCY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; CONTEXT EFFECT; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EAST ASIANS; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; FACIAL EMOTION EVALUATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGENCY; CONTEXT EFFECT; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; EAST ASIANS; FACIAL EMOTION EVALUATION; NORTH AMERICANS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT;

EID: 84878078157     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167213481387     Document Type: Article

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