The Communicative Function of Sad Facial Expressions
What are the communicative functions of sad facial expressions? Research shows that people feel sadness in response to losses but it’s unclear whether sad expressions function to communicate losses to others and if so, what makes these signals credible. Here we use economic games to test the hypothe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-03-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917700418 |