When Feelings Speak: How Affective and Proprioceptive Cues Change Language Abstraction

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-122

  Beukeboom, Camiel J ^a   de Jong, Elisabeth M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive tuning; feelings and proprioceptive cues; language abstraction; linguistic category model; motor actions

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949085653     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X07313644     Document Type: Article

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