Facial expressions and the regulation of emotions.
@article{Izard1990FacialEA, title={Facial expressions and the regulation of emotions.}, author={Carroll E. Izard}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={1990}, volume={58 3}, pages={ 487-98 } }
In the two decades since contemporary psychologists produced strong evidence confirming Darwin's century-old hypothesis of the innateness and universality of certain facial expressions of emotions, research on expressive behavior has become well established in developmental, social, and personality psychology and in psychophysiology. There are also signs of increased interest in emotions in clinical psychology and the neurosciences. Despite the success of the work on emotion expression and the…
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