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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
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

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.