Some insults are more difficult to ignore: The embodied insult Stroop effect

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1266-1294

  Siakaluk, Paul D ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^b   Dalrymple, Holly Anne R ^a   Stearns, Jodie ^a   Owen, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual processing; Embodied cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULATION; STROOP TEST; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

EID: 84855673311     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.521021     Document Type: Article

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