Expecting Happy Women, Not Detecting the Angry Ones : Detection and Perceived Intensity of Facial Anger, Happiness, and Emotionality

Faces provide cues for judgments regarding the emotional state of individuals. Using signal-detection methodology and a standardized stimulus set, the overall aim of the present dissertation was to investigate the detection of emotional facial expressions (i.e., angry and happy faces) with neutral e...

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Main Author: Pixton, Tonya S.
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen 2011
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-57167
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