Emotion through locomotion: Gender impact

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Krüger, Samuel ^a   Sokolov, Alexander N ^a   Enck, Paul ^a   Krägeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a   Pavlova, Marina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WALKING;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896736571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081716     Document Type: Article

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