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| Title |
How Body Balance Influences Political Party Evaluations: A Wii Balance Board Study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00536 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Katinka Dijkstra, Anita Eerland, Josjan Zijlmans, Lysanne S. Post |
| Abstract |
Embodied cognition research has shown how actions or body positions may affect cognitive processes, such as autobiographical memory retrieval or judgments. The present study examined the role of body balance (to the left or the right) in participants on their attributions to political parties. Participants thought they stood upright on a Wii(™) Balance Board, while they were actually slightly tilted to the left or the right. Participants then ascribed fairly general political statements to one of 10 political parties that are represented in the Dutch House of Representatives. Results showed a significant interaction of congruent leaning direction with left- or right-wing party attribution. When the same analyses were performed with the political parties being divided into affiliations to the right, center, and left based on participants' personal opinions rather than a ruling classification, no effects were found. The study provides evidence that conceptual metaphors are activated by manipulating body balance implicitly. Moreover, people's judgments may be colored by seemingly trivial circumstances such as standing slightly out of balance. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 6 | 22% |
| United States | 4 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 15% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Georgia | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 89% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 7% |
| Scientists | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 27% |
| Researcher | 6 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 10% |
| Professor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 16 | 31% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 61% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 6% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 6% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2022.
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#6,756
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#38
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