Some insults are easier to detect: The embodied insult detection effect

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Wellsby, Michele ^a   Siakaluk, Paul D ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^b   Owen, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual processing; Embodied cognition; Insult processing; Mental simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255145350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00198     Document Type: Article

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