When You Think About It, Your Past Is in Front of You: How Culture Shapes Spatial Conceptions of Time

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1682-1690

  de la Fuente, Juanma ^a   Santiago, Julio ^a   Román, Antonio ^a   Dumitrache, Cristina ^a   Casasanto, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual metaphor; cross cultural differences; mental models; open data; space; time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARAB; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; SPAIN; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; METAPHOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; SPAIN; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908110040     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614534695     Document Type: Article

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