Constructing agency: The role of language

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2010, Pages

  Fausey, Caitlin M ^a   Long, Bria L ^b   Inamori, Aya ^c   Boroditsky, Lera ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Agents; Causality; Culture; Events; Eye witness memory; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866790973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00162     Document Type: Article

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