How extending your middle finger affects your perception of others: Learned movements influence concept accessibility

By Jesse J. Chandler, Norbert Schwarz. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Stand tall, but don't put your feet up: Universal and culturally-specific effects of expansive postures on power (2013, background): “…societies – led participants in the U.S. to interpret a target's ambiguous behavior as hostile, whereas upward extension of the thumb – a gesture of approval in the U.S., but not in other parts of the world (Axtell, 1998) – led to favorable evaluations of the same target (Chandler & Schwarz, 2008).”
To judge a book by its weight you need to know its content: Knowledge moderates the use of embodied cues (2012, background): “Similarly, the observation that weight may exert its influence through semantic associations does not preclude that other embodied inputs operate through other pathways (cf. Chandler & Schwarz, 2009).”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “For example, in some societies but not others an erect stance cues honour (Ijzerman & Cohen, 2011), a middle finger cues hostility (Chandler & Schwarz, 2009), a ‘‘fishy’’ smell cues suspicion (Lee & Schwarz, 2011b), and the past is to one’s left (Fuhrman & Boroditsky, 2010).”
Communal and Agentic Content in Social Cognition (2014, background): “impressions was shown by Cislak and Wojciszke (2008), who assumed that most people behave in ways both serving their own interests or not (agency) and serving the interests of others or not (communion).”
Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain (2010, unknown): “…published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com): 18 June 2012 DOI 10.1002/dev.21055 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. others and environment (Ackerman, Nocera, & Bargh, 2010; Chandler & Schwarz, 2009; Chemero, 2009; Kelso, 1995; Lee & Schwarz, 2010; Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1990).”
Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond (2011, background): “Extending the middle finger leads to higher hostility ratings, whereas pointing the thumb upward leads to higher liking ratings (Chandler & Schwarz, 2009).”
Embodiment in Social Psychology (2012, background): “A study by Chandler and Schwarz (2009) can illustrate the different perspectives.”
Affective Body Expression Perception and Recognition: A Survey (2013, background): “A typical example is offered by whole-body computer games (e.g., Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect) where body movement is not only a means to control the interaction between us and the games, but also a way to capture and affect our own emotional and cognitive performances [16], [17], [18], [19].”