The mind is an ecosystem: Systemic metaphors promote systems thinking

Metaphor and the Social World

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 225-242

  Thibodeau, Paul ^a   Winneg, Anna ^a   Frantz, Cynthia ^a   Flusberg, Stephen ^a  

^a Purchase College   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Decision making; Framing; Intervention; Metaphor; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991744653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/msw.6.2.03thi     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O., & McCormick, K. (2010). Do English and Mandarin speakers think differently about time? Cognition, 118, 123-129. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition. 2010.09.010
2. Brown, T. L. (2003). Making truth: Metaphor in science. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
3. Capra, F. (1985). Criteria of systems thinking. Futures, 17, 475-478. doi: 10.1016/0016-3287 (85) 90059-X
4. Checkland, P. B. (1972). Towards a systems-based methodology for real-world problem solving. Journal of Systems Engineering, 3, 87-116.
5. Choi, I., Dalal, R., Kim-Prieto, C., & Park, H. (2003). Culture and judgment of causal relevance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 46-59. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.1.46
6. Choi, I., Koo, M., & Choi, J. A. (2007). Individual differences in analytic versus holistic thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 691-705. doi: 10.1177/0146167206298568
7. Clark, H. H. (1973). Space, time, semantics, and the child. In T. E. Moore (Ed.), Cognitive development and the acquisition of language (pp. 27-63). New York: Academic Press.
8. Davis, A. C., & Stroink, M. L. (2015). The relationship between systems thinking and the new ecological paradigm. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Available online pre-publication: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.2371/full doi: 10.1002/sres.2371
9. Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Random House LLC.
10. Flusberg, S. J., Thibodeau, P. H., Sternberg, D. A., & Glick, J. J. (2010). A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphor. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 197. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00197
11. Gentner, D. (1983). Structure mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive Science, 7, 155-170. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog0702-3
12. Gick, M. L. & Holyoak, K. J. (1980) Analogical problem solving. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 306-355.
13. Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2014). The war on prevention bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 66-77. doi: 10.1177/0146167214557006
14. Lakoff, G. (2002). Moral politics: How conservatives and liberals think. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226471006.001.0001
15. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
16. Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & Greenberg, J. (2009). Evidence that self-relevant motives and metaphoric framing interact to influence political and social attitudes. Psychological Science, 20, 1421-1427. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02462.x
17. Maani, K. E., & Maharaj, V. (2004). Links between systems thinking and complex decision making. System Dynamics Review, 20, 21-48. doi: 10.1002/sdr.281
18. Maddux, W. W., & Yuki, M. (2006). The "ripple effect": Cultural differences in perceptions of the consequences of events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 669-683. doi: 10.1177/0146167205283840
19. Masuda, T., & Nisbett, R. E. (2006). Culture and change blindness. Cognitive Science, 30, 381-399. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000-63
20. Nisbett, R. E., Peng, K., Choi, I., & Norenzayan, A. (2001). Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. Psychological Review, 108, 291. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.2.291
21. Pennebaker, J. W., Chung, C. K., Ireland, M., Gonzales, A., & Booth, R. J. (2007). The development and psychometric properties of LIWC2007. Austin, TX: LIWC. Net.
22. Richmond, B. (1993). Systems thinking - critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond. System Dynamics Review, 9, 113-133. doi: 10.1002/sdr.4260090203
23. Rottman, B. M., Gentner, D., & Goldwater, M. B. (2012). Causal systems categories: Differences in novice and expert categorization of causal phenomena. Cognitive science, 36, 919-932. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01253.x
24. Rozenblit, L., & Keil, F. (2002). The misunderstood limits of folk science: An illusion of explanatory depth. Cognitive Science, 26, 521-562. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog2605-1
25. Steen, G. J., Reijnierse, W. G., & Burgers, C. (2014). When do natural language metaphors influence reasoning? A follow-up study to Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013). PloS ONE, 9(12), e113536. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113536
26. Rutherford, E. (1911). The scattering of a and β particles by matter and the structure of the atom. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 21, 669-688. doi: 10.1080/14786440508637080
27. Sweeney, L. B., & Sterman, J. (2007). Thinking about systems: Student and teacher conceptions of natural and social systems. Systems Dynamics Review, 23, 285-312. doi: 10.1002/sdr.366
28. Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoning. PLoS ONE, 6(2), e16782. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016782
29. Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2013). Natural language metaphors covertly influence reasoning. PLoS ONE, 8(1), e52961. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052961
30. Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2015). Measuring effects of metaphor in a dynamic opinion landscape. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0133939. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133939
31. Traugott, E. C. (1978). On the expression of spatiotemporal relations in language. In J. H. Greenberg (Ed.), Universals of human language, vol. 3, Word structure (pp. 369-400). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
32. Vendetti, M. S., Wu, A., & Holyoak, K. J. (2014). Far-out thinking: Generating solutions to distant analogies promotes relational thinking. Psychological Science, 25, 928-933. doi: 10.1177/0956797613518079
33. Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (2011). Structure mapping in metaphor comprehension. Cognitive Science, 35, 1456-1488. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01194.x