Baby, you light-up my face: Culture-general physiological responses to infants and culture-specific cognitive judgements of adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Esposito, Gianluca ^a,b   Nakazawa, Jun ^c   Ogawa, Shota ^d   Stival, Rita ^a   Kawashima, Akiko ^e   Putnick, Diane L ^f   Bornstein, Marc H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Doctoral Course the United Graduate School of Education Tokyo Gakugei University   (Japan)

^e Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare   (Japan)

^f EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAREGIVER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FACIAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); ITALY; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY TEMPERATURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; JAPAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84907999277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106705     Document Type: Article

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