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Horror Movies and the Cognitive Ecology of Primary Metaphors

Metaphor and Symbol 29 (3):151-170 (2014)

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Ekologia poznawcza jako tradycja badawcza w kognitywistyce.Witold Wachowski - 2021 - Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 11 (1).details Cognitive ecology as a research tradition in cognitive science: The article presents cognitive ecology as a research tradition in cognitive science, under which studies on embodied cognition and various forms of situated cognition are conducted. At the same time, the basic heuristic of cognitive ecology and its relationship to methodological individualism are identified. The paper includes the history of the concept of “cognitive ecology”, historical approaches preceding this research tradition, as well as an outline of contemporary research related to it. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People.Heng Li & Yu Cao - 2021 - Metaphor and Symbol 36 (4):256-264.details Across many languages and cultures, people tend to explicitly and implicitly associate brightness with God and darkness with the Devil. In the current research, we used an explicit Brightness-Godas... Download Export citation Bookmark
Power, Gender, and Individual Differences in Spatial Metaphor: The Role of Perceptual Stereotypes and Language Statistics.Bodo Winter, Sarah E. Duffy & Jeannette Littlemore - 2020 - Metaphor and Symbol 35 (3):188-205.details English speakers use vertical language to talk about power, such as when speaking of people being “at the bottom of the social hierarchy” or “rising to the top.” Experimental research has shown tha... Download Export citation Bookmark
Hello darkness my old friend: preferences for darkness vary by neuroticism and co-occur with negative affect.Michelle R. Persich, Jessica L. Bair, Becker Steinemann, Stephanie Nelson, Adam K. Fetterman & Michael D. Robinson - 2018 - Cognition and Emotion 33 (5):885-900.details ABSTRACTMetaphors frequently link negative affect with darkness and associations of this type have been established in several experimental paradigms. Given the ubiquity and strength of these associations, people who prefer dark to light may be more prone to negative emotional experiences and symptoms. A five study investigation couches these ideas in a new theoretical framework and then examines them. Across studies, 1 in 4 people preferred the perceptual concept of dark over the perceptual concept of light. These dark-preferring people scored (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
With the Past in Front of the Character: Evidence for Spatial-Temporal Metaphors in Cinema.Maarten Coëgnarts & Peter Kravanja - 2015 - Metaphor and Symbol 30 (3):218-239.details Cognitive research on Ego-Reference-Point models of time in English traditionally shows that “FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO” and “PAST IS IN BACK OF EGO.” Recently, however, this view has been challenged by other results, showing that there exists a major static model of time wherein “FUTURE IS IN BACK OF EGO” and “PAST IS IN FRONT OF EGO.” However, evidence for both conceptual systems comes predominantly from linguistic and gestural forms of expression. For instance, convincing empirical evidence coming from (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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