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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... different schemas in order to understand much more complex concepts, through a process called metaphoric transfer strategy . Through ... the physical experiences of one concept with the more abstract properties of another concept. For instance, the expression “Friday ... / more

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Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

... those who went knowingly to their deaths in the name of an abstract entity like freedom, country or religion? And what is it about human ... but MS causes them to latch onto these security-providing concepts. A large set of studies have clarified the psychological processes ... / more

Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.

... something deeper about how people think about the world. The concepts of weight and importance are tightly coupled to each other, so that ... questions of monetary value, influencing estimates of more abstract forms of importance. Incidental experiences of physical weight lead ... / more

What can metaphors tell us about personality?

... and Johnson (1980; 1999), metaphors allow us to understand abstract thoughts and feelings that cannot be directly seen, heard, touched, ... metaphors because they help one to understand non-tangible concepts such as the self or its emotions (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999). An ... / more

More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions

... the actions used when handling one). Although abstract concepts are intangible and have no obvious associated sensory or embodied ... / more

Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema

... of our environment. Our mind is no dry collection of abstract concepts and features, but a rich bulk of sensory and motor representations ... / more

Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology

... the environment. What do they mean by that? For some concepts, this is obvious. Take colours as an example. Our colour concepts ... impact to those of other books. Importance sure sounds abstract and intangible – it is a different kind of concept than colour, ... / more

A Mind For Numbers. How To Excel At Math And Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra).

... could not stretch my brain enough to understand all the new concepts. I was glad to find out that the author of  “A Mind For Numbers. ... After all, programming can be tough, as it requires abstract and logical thinking. As Kenneth R. Leopold, one of the professors ... / more

Complex Dilemmas in Group Therapy: Pathways to Resolution

... in the field. The chapters are organized around few key concepts: boundary issues, difficult patients, defenses, therapists reactions, ... quite difficult to read, as they were often written in an abstract and dry language. In general, I found them too condensed for someone ... / more