Sex differences in the rapid detection of emotional facial expressions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Sawada, Reiko ^a   Sato, Wataru ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^a   Uono, Shota ^a   Kubota, Yasutaka ^b   Yoshimura, Sayaka ^a   Toichi, Motomi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; AROUSAL; AROUSAL REACTION TIME RELATIONSHIP; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMILIARITY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALENCE REACTION TIME RELATIONSHIP; YOUNG ADULT; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899628756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094747     Document Type: Article

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