Temporal Closeness Promotes Imitation of Meaningful Gestures in Face-to-Face Communication.
The present research investigated how temporal distance affects imitation of gestures during a conversation. According to construal level theory, psychological closeness (vs. distance) leads to preference for more pictorial and embodied (vs. symbolic and amodal) forms of communication as well as to...
| Published in: | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 415 - 432 |
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Dec2017
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