The influence of heightened body-awareness on walking through apertures

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 557-570

  Lopresti Goodman, Stacy ^a   Kallen, Rachel W ^b   Richardson, Michael J ^b   Marsh, Kerry L ^a   Johnston, Lucy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOGGING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WALKING;

EID: 79960935409     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1568     Document Type: Article

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