Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 549-567

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Gutiérrez García, Aida ^a   Fernández Martín, Andrés ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Frequency; Observation; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910001980     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: 15733653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-014-0191-3     Document Type: Article

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