More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience

Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 153-186

  Schubert, Thomas W ^a   Waldzus, Sven ^a   Seibt, Beate ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

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