Competent and Warm but Unemotional: The Influence of Occupational Stereotypes on the Attribution of Emotions

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 307-317

  Hareli, Shlomo ^a   David, Shlomo ^a   Hess, Ursula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion perception; Facial expressions; Occupational stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886641862     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-013-0157-x     Document Type: Article

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