Using infrared thermography to assess emotional responses to infants

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 438-447

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

attitude towards infants; automatic response; baby faces; baby schema; emotional representation; emotional valence; infrared thermography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921602539     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2014.932153     Document Type: Article

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