Alan J. Fridlund
Alan J. Fridlund is a social and clinical psychologist whose interests lie in human ethology (especially nonverbal communication), neuroethology, psychopathology, and sexology. He won the Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and was a member of the Faculty in Experimental Psychopathology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View (Academic Press, 1994), and with Dan Reisberg (Reed College) and Henry Gleitman (U. Penn.), the introductory text Psychology (6th edition, Norton, 2003).
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Evolution and Genetics
- Health Psychology
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Books:
- Fridlund, A. J. (1994). Human facial expression: An evolutionary view. San Diego: Academic Press.
Journal Articles:
- Fridlund, A. J. (1991). The sociality of solitary smiles: Effects of an implicit audience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 229-240.
- Fridlund, A. J., & Loftis, J. M. (1990). Relations between tickling and humorous laughter: Preliminary support for the Darwin-Hecker hypothesis. Biological Psychology, 30, 141-150.
Other Publications:
- Fridlund, A. J. (1997). The new thology of human facial expressions. In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The Psychology of Facial [removed]pp. 103-129). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Fridlund, A. J. (1992). Darwin’s anti-darwinism and the expression of the emotions in man and animals. In K. T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review of Emotion (Vol. 2, pp. 117-137). New York: Wiley.
- Fridlund, A. J., & Duchaine, B. (1996). Facial expressions of emotion and the delusion of the hermetic self (pp. 259-284). In R. Harre & W.G. Parrott (Eds.), The emotions: Social, cultural and biological dimensions. London: Sage.
Alan J. Fridlund
Department of Psychology
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
United States of America
- Phone: (805) 893-2210
- Fax: (805) 893-4303