Enfacing others but only if they are nice to you

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Bufalari, Ilaria ^a,b   Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,c   Porciello, Giuseppina ^a,b   Holmes, Brittany Serra ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enfacement illusion; Interpersonal perception; Multisensory integration; Racial bias; Social cognition; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; ILLUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 84897138006     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00102     Document Type: Article

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