Beyond the Perception-Behavior Link: The Ubiquitous Utility and Motivational Moderators of Nonconscious Mimicry

The New Unconscious

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chartrand, Tanya L ^a   Maddux, William W ^b   Lakin, Jessica L ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic imitation; Behavior; Behavioral mimicry; Moods; Nonconscious mimicry; Observables; Perception; Social behavior; Social survival; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920566725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307696.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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