Emotions and the body

Emotions and the body / Beatrice de Gelder.

"The face has long been considered the gateway to understanding human emotion and cognition. Body language is an equally powerful means of communication, however. Although faces and bodies can express themselves in many similar ways, examining their differences may be the best way to learn how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelder, Beatrice de, 1944- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Emotions.
Body language.
Cognitive psychology.
emotion.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Body language
Cognitive psychology
Emotions
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Why bodies?
  • 2. Face perception and its context
  • 3. Measuring emotions: measuring the impossible?
  • 4 Seeing actions: understanding intentions and feeling emotions
  • 5. The functional brain basis of bodily expressions
  • 6. Conscious and unconscious emotion traffic
  • 7. The time course of emotional body perception
  • 8. Gender, culture, and context differences in the recognition of bodily expressions
  • 9. Body consciousness, body perception deficits, and virtual bodies
  • 10. Interactions, or Why it takes more than one to tango.

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