Stand tall, but don't put your feet up: Universal and culturally-specific effects of expansive postures on power

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 965-971

  Park, Lora E ^a   Streamer, Lindsey ^a   Huang, Li ^b   Galinsky, Adam D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Body posture; Cross cultural difference; Embodied cognition; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880415435     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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