Talking about emotion: Prosody and skin conductance indicate emotion regulation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Matejka, Moritz ^a   Kazzer, Philipp ^a,b   Seehausen, Maria ^a,b   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b   Klann Delius, Gisela ^a   Menninghaus, Winfried ^a,c   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   Prehn, Kristin ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; IAPS; Skin conductance; Verbalization; Voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878915462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00260     Document Type: Article

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