Sex differences in emotional evaluation of film clips: Interaction with five high arousal emotional categories

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Maffei, Antonio ^a   Vencato, Valentina ^a   Angrilli, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPASSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBARRASSMENT; EMOTIONALITY; EROTIC; EXCITATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FILM; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JITTERY FEELING; LEVEL OF ELICITED DISTRESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SADNESS; SCENERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALENCE-PLEASANTNESS; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957572497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145562     Document Type: Article

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