How extending your middle finger affects your perception of others: Learned movements influence concept accessibility

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Chandler, Jesse ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Person perception; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649111208     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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