The embodied self: Making a fist enhances men's power-related self-conceptions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 828-834

  Schubert, Thomas W ^a   Koole, Sander L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodied social cognition; Gender; Implicit and explicit self concept; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650742314     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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