Susceptibility to emotional contagion for negative emotions improves detection of smile authenticity

A smile is a context-dependent emotional expression. A smiling face can signal the experience of enjoyable emotions, but people can also smile to convince another person that enjoyment is occurring when it is not. For this reason, the ability to discriminate between felt and faked enjoyment expressi...

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Main Authors: Valeria eManera, Elisa eGrandi, Livia eColle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00006/full