16 results for „metaphor“
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magazine issue | 12/2012
Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships
... 2010). Now what does this have to do with the metaphor story? Psychologist Mark Landau and his colleagues (2010) recently ... 2008, for more information on this idea). Your mother, metaphor, and other matters But why might people build up such ... for an overview). Physical Warmth: More than Just a Metaphor Psychologists (and other scientists) have accumulated a vast array ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2011
General action and inaction goals: Definitions & effects
... glucose as a limited energy source: Willpower is more than a metaphor. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 325-336. ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2011
Anger Management
... 1976). In summary, if a pressure cooker is used as a metaphor for anger, there are three ways to deal with the buildup of steam ... / more
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magazine issue | 10/2009
Free Will in Social Psychology
... a lock against rotating backward; thus, the point of the metaphor is that forward movement is retained and preserved.) ... / more
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magazine issue | 10/2007
There’s Something About Zero
... is green, don’t brush their words aside as mere metaphor. They probably have synaesthesia. References Cytowic, R.E. ... / more
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magazine issue | 07/2007
Why We Are Still Social
... disperse. The logic is indisputable. The anthropomorphic metaphor is a shortcut to saying that any heritable genetic variation that ... / more
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Book Review
Publish and prosper: a strategy guide for students and researchers
... have too much of a self-help book feel. For me, the mansion metaphor (where priorities are the foundation, efficiency the walls, and ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.
... & Li, 2012, for an early demonstration using a different metaphor see Meier & Robinson, 2004). Once a physical experience ... and what would be predicted by heuristic explanations of metaphor effects. As it turns out, there are also reasons to predict ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
What can metaphors tell us about personality?
... such metaphors to describe personality, then? According to metaphor theorists (e.g., Robinson & Fetterman, in press), metaphors aid us in ... differences between people. Consider the “sweet person” metaphor. Eating sweet foods is pleasant and rewarding just like interacting ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions
... example, the concept “importance” is described by the metaphor “having weight.” This metaphor is not merely linguistic: Participants who hold a heavy versus light ... / moreHere you can search the entire InMind magazine for any content of your choice. You can reduce your search results by selecting one or more filter options in the right column.