Your highness: vertical positions as perceptual symbols of power.

By Thomas W. Schubert. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Abstract thinking increases one's sense of power (2008, background): “Even something as simple as vertical position is related to perceptions of power (Schubert, 2005): Placing stimuli higher on a computer screen gains them more respect.”
Sensory marketing, embodiment, and grounded cognition: A review and introduction (2014, background): “A key example is verticality, which is associated with valence (good things are up; e.g., Meier & Robinson, 2004), power (e.g., Schubert, 2005), godliness (e.g., Meier, Hauser, Robinson, Friesen, & Schjeldahl, 2007), rationality, and other dimensions of judgment.”
Space for thinking (2009, neutral): “…behavioral tests of Conceptual Metaphor Theory have used linguistic stimuli (Boroditsky, 2000, 2001; Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002; Gibbs, 1994; Meier & Robinson, 2004; Meier, Robinson, & Clore, 2004; Richardson, Spivey, Barsalou, & McRae, 2003; Schubert, 2005; Torralbo, Santiago, & Lupiáñez, 2006).”
Metaphors and the market: Consequences and preconditions of agent and object metaphors in stock market commentary (2007, background): “In an example of such a learned association, Schubert (2005) finds that perceivers associate higher positions in space with social status.”
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues (2014, background): “These keys were selected due to the metaphorical relationship between 209 verticality and power (Schubert, 2005; Giessner and Schubert, 2007).”
Embodiment of cognition and emotion (2015, background): “Depressed mood is described as “feeling low,” whereas high vertical positions are associated with greater power (Schubert, 2005).”
Social power makes the heart work more efficiently: Evidence from cardiovascular markers of challenge and threat (2012, positive): “In this sense, the challenge response can be viewed as a dimension of the embodied state of power (see also Schubert, 2005; Niedenthal, Barsalou, Winkielman, Krauth-Gruber, & Ric, 2005).”
Embodied Product Perception: Effects of Verticality Cues in Advertising and Packaging Design on Consumer Impressions and Price Expectations (2012, background): “, visual-spatial factors) in particular (Johnson, 1987; Lakoff & Johnson, 1999; Schubert, 2005).”
Visual perception and the statistical properties of natural scenes. (2008, neutral): “In Sensory Communication, ed.”
The Nonconscious Nature of Power: Cues and Consequences (2010, background): “Taller people tend to earn more money, have higher-status jobs, and win more presidential elections (Judge & Cable, 2004), but vertical position can also serve as a nonconscious power cue: The higher a target is, the more powerful it is perceived to be, even when its vertical position is clearly arb”