Digital chameleons: Automatic assimilation of nonverbal gestures in immersive virtual environments

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 814-819

  Bailenson, Jeremy N ^a   Yee, Nick ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACCULTURATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 27744467310     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01619.x     Document Type: Article

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