Event valence and spatial metaphors of time

Margolies, Skye Ochsner; Crawford, L. Elizabeth

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“…Consistent with previous studies with adults (Lee & Ji, 2014;Margolies & Crawford, 2008), 9-year-olds showed an egomoving judgement of time in the positive-valence condition and an event-moving perspective in the negative-valence condition. Consistent with previous studies with adults (Lee & Ji, 2014;Margolies & Crawford, 2008), 9-year-olds showed an egomoving judgement of time in the positive-valence condition and an event-moving perspective in the negative-valence condition.…”

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“…These findings supported the view that positivity is metaphorically associated with an active approach-something to look forward to-whereas negativity is associated with passive avoidance-something to avoid (Lee & Ji, 2014;Margolies & Crawford, 2008). On the other hand, the negative-valence event of a shot at a doctor's office (Study 1) and the end of playtime with an attractive toy (Study 2) was associated with an event-moving perspective.…”

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“…However, this alternative explanation has not been mentioned in previous psycho-spatial embodiment literature (Boroditsky, 2000;Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002;Lee & Ji, 2014;Margolies & Crawford, 2008;Zélanti & Droit-Volet, 2011). Future studies could investigate the development of psycho-spatial embodiment of time in reference to past events, more specifically to understand if 5-year-olds continue to maintain their ego-moving-centric perspective for positive and negative past events.…”

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Children's psycho‐spatial understanding of affect‐based time: The developmental trajectories of ego‐ and event‐moving perspectives

McAfee

Wyckoff

Choe

2018

Infant and Child Development

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Time is closely linked to people's representation of spatial experience. Previous research showed that adults primed with positive affect judged that they were approaching the event (ego‐moving), whereas those primed with negative affect reported that the event was approaching them (event‐moving). The present research investigated the developmental sensitivity towards psycho‐spatial understanding by examining the role of positive and negative affect on children's perception of time. In Study 1, when tested in a within‐subjects design, 5‐, 7‐, and 9‐year‐olds as well as adults made ego‐moving judgments in response to an object of the positive event that was to happen in 2 days. However, by 9 years, children made adult‐like event‐moving responses to an object that stood for the negative affect. Five‐year‐olds continued to make ego‐moving judgments in the negative valence condition, whereas 7‐year‐olds' responses were in transition. Study 2 replicated the full developmental pattern found in Study 1, even when the positive and negative affect events were towards the identical object in the between‐subjects design and the time span was shortened to a few minutes. Implications of the affective spatiotemporal perception of time were further discussed in relation to the sense of agency. Highlights We uncover the pattern of developmental sensitivity towards the psycho‐spatial embodiment of time, in relation to a positive or negative event. Vignettes were used to ascertain participant's psycho‐spatial view of time in relation to valence; 9‐year‐olds had an adult‐like understanding. Teaching children to use different psycho‐spatial agentic perspectives has the potential to help children at risk of anxiety and depression.

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Children's psycho‐spatial understanding of affect‐based time: The developmental trajectories of ego‐ and event‐moving perspectives

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2018

Infant and Child Development

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“…Previous research has suggested that positive affect is typically associated with approach motivations (ego moving) and negative affect associated with avoidance motivations (time moving) (e.g. Krieglmeyer, Deutsch, De Houwer, & De Raedt, ; Margolies & Crawford, ). However, anger has been found to also involve ego‐moving motivations (Hauser et al, ).…”

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A feeling for the future: How does agency in time metaphors relate to feelings?

Richmond

Wilson

Zinken

2012

Euro J Social Psych

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Most cultures have metaphors for time that involve movement, for example, ‘time passes’. Although time is objectively measured, it is subjectively understood, as we can perceive time as stationary, whereby we move towards future events, or we can perceive ourselves as stationary, with time moving past us and events moving towards us. This paper reports a series of studies that first examines whether people think about time in a metaphor‐consistent manner (Study 1) and then explores the relationship between ‘time perspective’, level of perceived personal agency, and time representations (Study 2), the relationship between emotional experiences and time representation (Study 3), and whether this relationship is bidirectional by manipulating either emotional experiences (Study 4) or time representation (Study 5). Results provide bidirectional evidence for an ego‐moving representation of time, with happiness eliciting more agentic control, and evidence for a time‐moving passivity associated with emotional experiences of anxiety and depression. This bidirectional relationship suggests that our representation of time is malleable, and therefore, current emotional experiences may change through modification of time representations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Recent lines of research have extended beyond demonstrating the psychological reality of space‐time metaphors, providing initial evidence that personality differences and emotional experiences, particularly those grounded in spatial schemas, may also influence an individual's approach to time and resulting resolution of temporal ambiguity (Duffy & Feist, ; Hauser et al., ; Richmond et al., ; see also Lee & Ji, ; Margolies & Crawford, ; Ruscher, ). However, these studies have all relied on participants' self‐reports regarding personality traits, introducing a measure of uncertainty into the conclusions regarding the connections uncovered.…”

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Moving Through Time: The Role of Personality in Three Real‐Life Contexts

2014

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In English, two deictic space-time metaphors are in common usage: the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward toward the ego (Clark, 1973). Although earlier research investigating the psychological reality of these metaphors has typically examined spatial influences on temporal reasoning (e.g., Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002), recent lines of research have extended beyond this, providing initial evidence that personality differences and emotional experiences may also influence how people reason about events in time (Duffy & Feist, 2014; Hauser, Carter, & Meier, 2009; Richmond, Wilson, & Zinken, 2012). In this article, we investigate whether these relationships have force in real life. Building on the effects of individual differences in self-reported conscientiousness and procrastination found by Duffy and Feist (2014), we examined whether, in addition to self-reported conscientiousness and procrastination, there is a relationship between conscientious and procrastinating behaviors and temporal perspective. We found that participants who adopted the Moving Time perspective were more likely to exhibit conscientious behaviors, while those who adopted the Moving Ego perspective were more likely to procrastinate, suggesting that the earlier effects reach beyond the laboratory.

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Event valence and spatial metaphors of time

Cited by 49 publications

References 21 publications

Children's psycho‐spatial understanding of affect‐based time: The developmental trajectories of ego‐ and event‐moving perspectives

Children's psycho‐spatial understanding of affect‐based time: The developmental trajectories of ego‐ and event‐moving perspectives

A feeling for the future: How does agency in time metaphors relate to feelings?

Moving Through Time: The Role of Personality in Three Real‐Life Contexts

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