How body balance influences political party evaluations: A wii balance board study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Dijkstra, Katinka ^a   Eerland, Anita ^a   Zijlmans, Josjan ^a   Post, Lysanne S ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual metaphors; Embodied cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874574311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00536     Document Type: Article

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