Effects of Activated and Dispositional Self-Construal on Emotion Decoding Accuracy

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-205

  Kafetsios, Konstantinos ^a   Hess, Ursula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Emotion perception; Priming; Self construal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880721391     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-013-0149-x     Document Type: Article

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