Perceiving emotions: Cueing social categorization processes and attentional control through facial expressions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1149-1163

  Cañadas, Elena ^a,d   Lupiáñez, Juan ^a   Kawakami, Kerry ^b   Niedenthal, Paula M ^c,e   Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Categorization; Emotion; Social context specific proportion congruency effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937510224     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1052781     Document Type: Article

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