The soft embodiment of culture: Camera angles and motion through time and space

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 824-830

  Leung, Angela K Y ^a   Cohen, Dov ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRIEND; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ASIAN AMERICANS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FRIENDS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; METAPHOR; MOVEMENT; NARRATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548359101     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01986.x     Document Type: Article

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