Social Transmission of the Sensory Benefits of Eye Widening in Fear Expressions

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 957-965

  Lee, Daniel H ^a   Susskind, Joshua M ^b   Anderson, Adam K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emotions; evolutionary psychology; facial expressions; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878813697     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464500     Document Type: Article

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