I feel your fear: Shared touch between faces facilitates recognition of fearful facial expressions

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-13

  Maister, Lara ^a   Tsiakkas, Eleni ^a   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Embodiment; Mirror touch synesthesia; Multisensory; Somatosensory simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; ILLUSION; RECOGNITION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85047688719     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030884     Document Type: Article

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