Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought /

Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought / / ed. by Thomas W. Schubert, Anne Maass.

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Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and developed in a constant interaction with space. The volume demonstrates how this has led to an astonishing intertwining of spatial and social thought. For the first time, research on language comprehension, metaphors, priming...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Agostini, Maria De,
Brady, Nuala,
Chatterjee, Anjan,
Chokron, Sylvie,
Förster, Jens,
Hegarty, Peter,
Kazandjian, Seta,
Lemieux, Anthony F.,
Liberman, Nira,
Maass, Anne,
McManus, Chris,
Ouellet, Marc,
Román, Antonio,
Santiago, Julio,
Schnall, Simone,
Schubert, Thomas W.,
Seibt, Beate,
Suitner, Caterina,
Tversky, Barbara,
Vaid, Jyotsna,
Waldzus, Sven,
HerausgeberIn:
Maass, Anne,
Schubert, Thomas W.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: The interrelation of spatial and social cognition
  • Section A. Spatial dimensions and social thought
  • Spatial thought, social thought
  • Flexible foundations of abstract thought: A review and a theory
  • Estimates of spatial distance: A Construal Level Theory perspective
  • Embodiment in affective space: Social influences on spatial perception
  • More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience
  • Section B. Horizontal asymmetries and social thought
  • Directional asymmetries in cognition: What is left to write about?
  • Understanding spatial bias in face perception and memory
  • Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account
  • Cultural and biological interaction in visuospatial organization
  • Aesthetic asymmetries, spatial agency, and art history: A social psychological perspective
  • Writing direction, agency and gender stereotyping: An embodied connection
  • Who is the second (graphed) sex and why? The meaning of order in graphs of gender differences
  • Index

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