Emotions affect the recognition of hand postures

The body is closely tied to the processing of social and emotional information. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a relationship between emotions and social attitudes conveyed through gestures exists. Thus we tested the effect of pro-social (i.e. happy face) and anti-social (i.e. an...

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Main Authors: Carmelo Mario Vicario, Anica eNewman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00906/full