Searching for cultural influences on the body-specific association of preferred hand and emotional valence

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2616-2620

  de la Fuente, Juanma ^a   Casasanto, Daniel ^b,c,d   Román, Antonio ^a   Santiago, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; body specificity; conceptual metaphor; cultural conventions; emotional valence; handedness

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; BODY SPECIFICITY; CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR; CULTURAL CONVENTIONS; CULTURAL INFLUENCES; EMOTIONAL VALENCES; HANDEDNESS; POSITIVE IDEAS;

EID: 84857930771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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