Does "feeling down" mean seeing down? Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention.

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A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Individuals who score high (vs. low) in depressive symptoms preferentially attend to lower areas of vertical space (Meier & Robinson, 2006), and those who perceive themselves as powerful are quicker to attend to higher spatial locations (Moeller, Robinson, & Zabelina, 2008; Robinson, Zabelina, Ode,…”
Place the Logo High or Low? Using Conceptual Metaphors of Power in Packaging Design (2014, unknown): “A higher vertical position can represent the concepts of good (Meier and Robinson 2006), happiness (Meier and Robinson 2004), status (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), morality (Meier, Sellborn, and Wygant 2007), or even the northern direction (Nelson and Simmons 2009).”
Conceptual Metaphors of Affect (2009, background): “Meier and Robinson (2006) used a probe detection task to assess directional shifts of attention in people with depressive symptoms and varying degrees of neuroticism, which is associated with negative affect.”