Trait dominance promotes reflexive staring at masked angry body postures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Hortensius, Ruud ^a   Van Honk, Jack ^b,c   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,d,e   Terburg, David ^b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANGER; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920186478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116232     Document Type: Article

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