Powerful postures versus powerful roles: Which is the proximate correlate of thought and behavior?

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-102

  Huang, Li ^a   Galinsky, Adam D ^a   Gruenfeld, Deborah H ^b   Guillory, Lucia E ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abstraction; action; body posture; hierarchical role; power

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; THINKING;

EID: 78951486821     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610391912     Document Type: Article

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