Good and bad in the hands of politicians: spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech.

BACKGROUND:According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people with different bodily characteristics should form correspondingly different mental representations, even in highly abstract conceptual domains. In a previous test of this proposal, right- and left-handers were found to associate positiv...

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Main Authors: Daniel Casasanto, Kyle Jasmin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2911380?pdf=render