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A continuous mapping between space and valence with left- and right-handers
- Source :
- Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Society, 2016, 23 (3), pp.865-870. ⟨10.3758/s13423-015-0950-0⟩, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2016, 23 (3), pp.865-870. ⟨10.3758/s13423-015-0950-0⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2016.
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Abstract
- International audience; In this research, we examined whether emotional valence could correspond to a continuous lateral bias in space, according to a mental metaphor that establishes the mapping between a concrete domain (space) and an abstract one (valence). Because acting with one's dominant hand is associated with fluency and positive valence (the bodily specificity hypothesis, or BSH), we asked strong right- and left-handers to perform two spatial location tasks using emotional faces with seven levels of valence. We hypothesized and showed through two studies that, according to the BSH, extreme valenced stimuli (as compared to moderate and weak ones) would be located more at the extremity of a horizontal line, according to the correspondences between handedness and the different valences of the stimuli. This research establishes that spatial and continuous mapping of emotions was obtained while controlling for motivational direction.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Left and right
Emotions
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Space
Emotional valence
Horizontal line test
Functional Laterality
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Fluency
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Valence (psychology)
Handedness
Facial expression
05 social sciences
[SDV.NEU.SC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences
Space perception
Emotion Cognition et Comportement
Facial Expression
Valence
Space Perception
[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology
Metaphor
Body specificity hypothesis
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10699384
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Society, 2016, 23 (3), pp.865-870. ⟨10.3758/s13423-015-0950-0⟩, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2016, 23 (3), pp.865-870. ⟨10.3758/s13423-015-0950-0⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa5d615f0cf90095f76e9570a60a2321