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Let’s twist again! Embodiment effects in spatial judgments on human figures rotated along a vertical axis

Mirjam EbersbachInstitut für Psychologie, Universität Kassel, Kassel, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Markus KrügerInstitut für Psychologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, GermanyView further author information
Pages 963-976 | Received 11 Jul 2016, Accepted 09 Jun 2017, Published online: 23 Jun 2017

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