In-Group Advantage and Other-Group Bias in Facial Emotion Recognition

Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication: Cross-Cultural and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 57-71

  Elfenbein, Hillary Anger ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding rules; Dialect; Display rules; In group advantage; Other group bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956797012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1934-7_4     Document Type: Chapter

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