Individual Differences in Gelotophobia Predict Responses to Joy and Contempt

In a paradigm facilitating smile misattribution, facial responses and ratings to contempt and joy were investigated in individuals with or without gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at). Participants from two independent samples ( N 1 = 83, N 2 = 50) rated the intensity of eight emotions in 16 phot...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Hofmann, Tracey Platt, Willibald Ruch, René T. Proyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015581191