Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

Kato, Toshiya; Imaizumi, Shu; Tanno, Yoshihiko

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01927

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“…Supporting this notion, bodily movements to enact a metaphor that represents an association between abstract concepts can also modulate cognition (i.e., embodied cognition). For instance, arm movements in a vertical direction, which represent a metaphorical association between vertical space and emotional valence (e.g., up-good, down-bad), can bias the recollection of emotional autobiographical memory [8] and evaluation of a previous emotional stimulus [9,10].…”

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Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

2020

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Bodily movements representing abstract concepts (e.g., fluidity) can affect divergent creative thinking. A recent study showed that participants who performed fluid arm movements by tracing curved line-drawings (the fluid condition) subsequently generated a larger number of more original alternative uses for newspapers than did those who traced angular linedrawings (the non-fluid condition). This suggests that fluid movements enhance fluency and originality in divergent creative thinking. To replicate these findings, we employed the same task with a larger Japanese sample. Participants in the fluid condition generated more uses for newspapers than in the non-fluid condition, regardless of confounding variables: mood, subjective difficulty of the tracing, and daily use of newspapers. In contrast to previous findings, there were no effects on originality. Our results suggest that fluidity enacted by arm movements robustly enhances creative fluency, although other factors (e.g., culture) could interfere with its effect on originality.

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Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

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“…In other words, Sasaki et al found that vertical manual action retrospectively affects the valence rating of the stimuli; however, it was still unknown that manual action can prospectively affect the valence rating. Thus, authors (Kato, Imaizumi, & Tanno, 2018) replicated Sasaki et al with the condition where vertical manual action was introduced before the stimuli presentation.…”

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“…Consequently, Kato et al (2018) revealed that the valence rating was only affected retrospectively by the vertical manual action but not prospectively. Then, can we conclude that vertical manual action does not affect the processing of emotional stimuli at all?…”

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“…As introduced, spatial metaphor affects autobiographical memory or visual attention, thus we should expect that metaphorical action could also affect these cognitive aspects. Previous studies including Casasanto and Dijkstra (2010) or Kato et al (2018) have paid attention to the affective rating of emotional stimuli or emotional memory, which are relatively higher-order cognition; thus, we should also shed light on lower-order cognition such as attention or perception. The evidence of interaction between action and attention has been accumulated for a long time (e.g., Gherri & Eimer, 2010; as a review, Smith & Schenk, 2012), metaphorical action may affect visual attention.…”

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Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

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Tanno³

2019

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Space-valence metaphor (e.g., bad is down) is embedded within cognitive and emotional processing (e.g., negative stimuli at a lower space capture visual attention more than those at upper space). Previous studies have revealed that motor action to vertical direction affects the emotional valence rating of stimuli with a valence corresponding to the metaphor, such as downward manual action that increases the negative rating of the stimuli. Previous studies also showed that motor action affects the valence rating only when introduced after the stimuli presentation. However, motor action before the stimuli presentation may affect visual selective attention. In the present study, we replicated the previous result; vertical or horizontal manual action introduced before the stimuli presentation does not affect the valence rating (Experiment 1). Moreover, we employed a modified version of the dot-probe task as a measure of visual selective attention to emotional stimuli (Experiment 2), where participants’ vertical or horizontal manual action triggered a pair of emotional words. Results revealed that an upward, not downward manual action promoted the selective attention to negative words, which was incongruent with the space-valence metaphorical correspondence. These results suggest that even though manual action does not affect the evaluative process of emotional stimuli prospectively, upward manual action introduced before stimuli presentation can promote visual attention to the subsequent negative stimuli in a way that is incongruent with the space-valence metaphor. Mechanisms underlying the metaphor incongruent effect and its directional anisotropy (i.e., no effect of downward action) have been discussed in the present study.

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“…When experimental stimuli are changed from words to sentences (Marmolejo-Ramos et al, 2014), pictures and faces (Elizabeth Crawford et al, 2006; Mahieu et al, 2014), such metaphor-consistent effect holds true. This effect has also been consolidated in various tasks, involving on-line evaluation (Meier and Robinson, 2004), memory (Crawford et al, 2014), eye-tracking (Gozli et al, 2013), physical movements (Kato et al, 2018), and 3D-space tasks which extend the valence-space metaphor effect to the dimension of 3D space (Marmolejo-Ramos et al, 2018, 2019). Furthermore, the affective perceptual–conceptual associations have been verified when other physical dimensions are involved, including brightness (Meier et al, 2004, 2015; Lakens et al, 2012; Huang et al, 2018), pitch (Weger et al, 2007), taste (Meier et al, 2012), size (Meier et al, 2008), and weight (Zhao et al, 2016).…”

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Why Smoggy Days Suppress Our Mood: Automatic Association Between Clarity and Valence

2019

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The intuition of clarity–valence association seems to be pervasive in daily life, however, whether there exists a potential association between clarity (i.e., operationalized as visual resolution) and affect in human cognition remains unknown. The present study conducted five experiments, and demonstrated the clarity–valence congruency effect, that is, the evaluations showed performance advantage in the congruent conditions (clear-positive, blurry-negative). Experiments 1 through 3 demonstrated the influence of the perception of clarity on the conceptualization of affective valence, while Experiments 4 and 5 verified the absence of the influence of conceptualization on perception, thus the unidirectionality of clarity–valence association in cognition is confirmed. The findings extend the affective perceptual–conceptual associations into the dimension of clarity, thus providing support for the ideas of embodied cognition as well as implications for our preference for clarity and aversion to blur.

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Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

Why Smoggy Days Suppress Our Mood: Automatic Association Between Clarity and Valence

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