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As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space → time metaphors
Abstract
Temporal language is often couched in spatial metaphors. English has been claimed to have two space → time metaphoric systems: the ego-moving metaphor, wherein the observer's context progresses along the time-line towards the future, an...
Publication · 4d
Sex and Seniority: The Effects of Linguistic Categories on Conceptual Judgments and Memory
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The current study explored the effects of different semantic categories in kinship terms on similarity judgments, word extensions, and recognition memory. We compared Indonesian ‐ in which sibling terms are based on relative age ‐ with ...
Publication · 4d
Analogical Inference in Automatic Interpretation
Abstract
We present findings suggesting that analogical inference can play a role in the fundamental processes involved in automatic comprehension and interpretation. Participants were found to use information from a prior relationally similar e...
Publication · 4d
Structural Alignment Facilitates Discovering Differences
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What can differences tell us about the process of comparison? The structural alignment model posits that psychologically salient differences arise out of commonalities (Markman & Gentner, 1993) . This leads to the counterintuitive predi...
Publication · 4d
Analogical Learning in Negotiation Teams : Comparing Cases Promotes Learning and Transfer
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We used structure-mapping theory (Gentner, 1983) to study learning in negotiation teams. We instructed some teams to compare two training cases and identify a key negotiation principle; other teams were given the same two cases to study...
Publication · 4d