Some Insults are Easier to Detect: The Embodied Insult Detection Effect

In the present research we examined the effects of bodily experience on processing of insults in a series of semantic categorization tasks we call insult detection tasks (i.e., participants decided whether presented stimuli were insults or not). Two types of insults were used: more embodied insults...

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Main Authors: Michele eWellsby, Paul D Siakaluk, Penny M Pexman, William J Owen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00198/full