Being In Front Is Good-But Where Is In Front? Preferences for Spatial Referencing Affect Evaluation
| Autor: | Sieghard Beller, Annelie Rothe-Wulf, Miriam Seel, Andrea Bender, Sarah Teige-Mocigemba |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
05 social sciences Implicit-association test Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Spatial cognition Frame of reference 050105 experimental psychology language.human_language German 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Space Perception language Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Valence (psychology) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | e12840 Cognitive Science |
| ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
| Popis: | Speakers of English frequently associate location in space with valence, as in moving up and down the “social ladder.” If such an association also holds for the sagittal axis, an object “in front of” another object would be evaluated more positively than the one “behind.” Yet how people conceptualize relative locations depends on which frame of reference (FoR) they adopt—and hence on cross‐linguistically diverging preferences. What is conceptualized as “in front” in one variant of the relative FoR (e.g., translation) is “behind” under another variant (reflection), and vice versa. Do such diverging conceptualizations of an object's location also lead to diverging evaluations? In two studies employing an implicit association test, we demonstrate, first, that speakers of German, Chinese, and Japanese indeed evaluate the object “in front of” another object more positively than the one “behind.” Second, and crucially, the reversal of which object is conceptualized as “in front” involves a corresponding reversal of valence, suggesting an impact of linguistically imparted FoR preferences on evaluative processes. publishedVersion |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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