Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 905-910

  Leighton, Jane ^a   Bird, Geoffrey ^a   Orsini, Caitlin ^a   Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Automatic imitation; Mimicry; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956610951     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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