When do natural language metaphors influence reasoning? A follow-up study to Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Steen, Gerard J ^a   Reijnierse, W Gudrun ^a   Burgers, Christian ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEAST METAPHOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; EDUCATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; LITERATURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; METAPHORICAL FRAMING; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; POLITICS; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; VIRUS METAPHOR; WORD RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; METAPHOR; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84916919106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113536     Document Type: Article

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