Intrapersonal and interpersonal concomitants of facial blushing during everyday social encounters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Rot, Marije Aan Het ^a   Moskowitz, D S ^b   De Jong, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUSHING; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; FACE; HUMAN RELATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BLUSHING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922875873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118243     Document Type: Article

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