Why the Sunny Side Is Up

By Brian P. Meier, Michael D. Robinson. Psychology Science, 2004

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Meier and Robinson (2004) provided evidence that these expressions reflect an automatic metaphoric association between affective valence and vertical spatial position.”
TRoPICALS: a computational embodied neuroscience model of compatibility effects. (2010, methodology): “evaluations, was carried out by Meier and Robertson (2004). These authors performed an”
That sounds sweet: using cross-modal correspondences to communicate gustatory attributes (2015, background): “However, similarly, sweet tastes may be matched with higher pitch due to the semantic proximity between a pleasant taste that results in a “high” mood (Meier & Robinson, 2004) and the spatial metaphor for pitch description (low pitch – high pitch; Spence, 2011).”
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).”
Control over the AssoCiAtion of Power And size (2009, background): “Likewise, Meier and Robinson (2004) reported that valence of a stimulus predicted the same attentional shift when valence was judged.”
The Influence of Affect on Attitude (2005, background): “Indeed, automatic inferences about evaluative word meanings can occur even on such extrasemantic bases as whether words are printed in light or dark fonts (Meier, Robinson, & Clore, 2004) and whether words appear up or down on a computer screen (Meier & Robinson, 2004).”
High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated (2007, background): “…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 (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2003).”
Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond (2011, background): “…a p or q) at the top or bottom of the screen is affected by a prior event in which a word had to be judged on an abstract quality such as valence (Meier & Robinson, 2004) or power (Van Dantzig, 2009; Zanolie et al., 2010) or even when participants listened to sentences containing abstract verbs…”
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “Experimental studies show that people evaluate positive words faster if these are presented in a higher vertical position on a computer screen, and recognize negative words faster if they appear in the lower part of the screen (Meier & Robinson, 2004).”
Conceptual Metaphors of Affect (2009, methodology): “The methodologies of Meier and Robinson (2004) and Crawford et al. (2006) were combined to examine how vertical space is used to represent the affectively charged concepts of the divine.”
Affect biases memory of location: Evidence for the spatial representation of affect (2006, result): “This work builds on recent findings by Meier and Robinson (2004) showing that spatial regions are primed when words are evaluated.”
Risk as Value: Combining Affect and Analysis in Risk Judgments (2006, background): “Similarly, Meier and Robinson (2004) have shown that when making evaluations, people assign ‘‘goodness’’ to objects high in visual space and ‘‘badness’’ to objects low in visual space.”