Social judgments from faces

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-380

  Todorov, Alexander ^a,b   Mende Siedlecki, Peter ^a   Dotsch, Ron ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; COMPUTER MODEL; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUDGEMENT;

AMYGDALA; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84878375456     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.12.010     Document Type: Review

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