"Hot-Headed" Is More Than an Expression: The Embodied Representation of Anger in Terms of Heat

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 464-477

  Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^a   Meier, Brian P ^b   Robinson, Michael D ^c   Carter, Margaret S ^b   Feltman, Roger ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anger; embodiment; heat; metaphor; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69049097058     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015764     Document Type: Article

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