Being mimicked makes you a prosocial voter

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-84

  Stel, Mariëlle ^a,b   Harinck, Fieke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empathy; Interconnectedness; Mimicry; Nonverbal behavior; Politics; Prosocial; Voting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78651089703     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000070     Document Type: Article

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