Look Up for Healing: Embodiment of the Heal Concept in Looking Upward.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Conceptual processing may not be restricted to the mind. The heal concept has been metaphorically associated with an "up" bodily posture. Perceptual Symbol Systems (PSS) theory suggests that this association is underpinned by bodily states which occur during learning and become instantiated as the concept. Thus the aim of this study was to examine whether processing related to the heal concept is promoted by priming the bodily state of looking upwards.

Method

We used a mixed 2x2 priming paradigm in which 58 participants were asked to evaluate words as either related to the heal concept or not after being primed to trigger the concept of looking up versus down (Direction--within subjects). A possible dose-response effect of priming was investigated via allocating pa

SUBMITTER: Leitan ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4498772 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature