Attuned to the positive? Awareness and responsiveness to others’ positive emotion experience and display

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 780-794

  Campos, Belinda ^a   Schoebi, Dominik ^b,c   Gonzaga, Gian C ^d   Gable, Shelly L ^e   Keltner, Dacher ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d Science and Algorithms Netflix ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Duchenne smiles; Emotion; Positive emotion; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941744891     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-015-9494-x     Document Type: Article

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