When a smile becomes a fist: The perception of facial and bodily expressions of emotion in violent offenders

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 399-410

  Kret, M E ^a   De Gelder, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Attention; Body language; Context; Emotion attribution; Violent offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892816886     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3557-6     Document Type: Article

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