The Emotional Origins of a Social Learning Bias: Does the Pride Expression Cue Copying?

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 492-499

  Martens, Jason P ^a   Tracy, Jessica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

decision making; emotion; evolution; motivation and performance; nonverbal behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878498950     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612457958     Document Type: Article

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