Self-Monitoring Without Awareness: Using Mimicry as a Nonconscious Affiliation Strategy

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1170-1179

  Cheng, Clara Michelle ^a   Chartrand, Tanya L ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMAN; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0346991582     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1170     Document Type: Review

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