How we recognize angry and happy emotion in people, places, and things

Aronoff, Joel

How we recognize angry and happy emotion in people, places, and things

Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 40 • Published In 2006 • Pages: 83-105 •

By Aronoff, Joel

Hypothesis

In 17th-century Dutch art, threatening configurations will take meaning from diagonal and angular forms and happy and intimate configurations take meaning from curved forms (99).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	Supported	p<.005	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Diagonal/angular Forms	Independent	Visual Arts, Representative Art
Threat	Dependent	Drives And Emotions

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How we recognize angry and happy emotion in people, places, and things

Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 40 • Published In 2006 • Pages: 83-105 • Cite

By Aronoff, Joel

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Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 40 • Published In 2006 • Pages: 83-105 •