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Publication details [#57483]

Mercier, Hugo, Thomas C. Scott-Phillips and Guillaume Dezecache. 2013. An evolutionary approach to emotional communication. Journal of Pragmatics 59 (1) : 221–233.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | communicative style | emotion | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper concentrates on the evolutionary stability of one specific class of non-ostensive communication, namely emotional expressions, arguing that emotional vigilance mechanisms most aptly explain emotional communication stability.