Beyond personality traits: Which facial expressions imply dominance in two-person interaction scenes?

Yoshiyuki Ueda1, Sakiko Yoshikawa1

  • 1Kokoro Research Center.

Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
|September 6, 2017
PubMed

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