The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

By Lera Boroditsky, Michael Ramscar. Psychology Science, 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Flexible Conceptual Projection of Time Onto Spatial Frames of Reference (2006, background): “Further work ( Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002 ) hinted that conscious attention to current spatial experiences may modulate the changes in metaphoric perspective induced by spatial primes, and actually it might even be a necessary condition for them to occur.”
Conceptual Metaphors of Affect (2009, methodology): “For English speakers, time is represented using one of two spatial metaphors: egomoving or time-moving (Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002).”
The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters. (2011, background): “Although there is increasing evidence that metaphors play a role in the conceptualization of some abstract domains (Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002; Gibbs, 2006), it is a matter of controversy to what extent they are foundational in the development (and subsequent representation) of abstract concepts…”
Time After Time: The Psychological Reality of the Ego- and Time-Reference-Point Distinction in Metaphorical Construals of Time (2006, background): “For instance, people who have just been moving (e.g., traveling on a plane or a train) or imagining self-motion tend to think of themselves as moving past stationary time events (Moving-Ego), and they are likely to say that the meeting was moved to Friday.”
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought (2008, background): “Evidence from behavioral experiments suggests that people not only talk about time using spatial language, they also think about time using mental representations of space (Boroditsky, 2000, 2001; Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002; Casasanto, 2005b, in press; Casasanto & Boroditsky, 2003, 2008; Casasanto”
Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings (2009, background): “Evidence in favour of this view, though compelling, is confined to domains that are quite specific (e.g., Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002 ), and it is difficult to imagine how far a mechanism based on metaphorical mapping can be extended.”
Socially Situated Cognition: Cognition in its Social Context (2004, methodology): “Recent research by Livingston and Brewer (2002) and Blair et al.”
High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated (2007, background): “For instance, time is represented on a horizontal spatial dimension (Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002), valence is represented on a vertical dimension (Crawford, Margolies, Drake, & Murphy, in press; Meier & Robinson, 2004), and communication is represented as movement towards and away from the body…”
Space for thinking (2009, background): “Previous 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,…”
Toward a theory of semantic representation (2009, background): “Although there is increasing evidence that metaphors play a role in the conceptualization of some abstract domains (Boroditsky and Ramscar 2002; Gibbs 2006), it is a matter of controversy whether they are foundational in the development (and subsequent representation) of abstract concepts and word…”