Observation inflation: Your actions become mine

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1291-1299

  Lindner, Isabel ^a   Echterhoff, Gerald ^b   Davidson, Patrick S R ^c   Brand, Matthias ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

action performance; false memory; imagination; imagination inflation; interpersonal simulation; motor processes; observation; social contagion; source monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649833307     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610379860     Document Type: Article

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