Bodily, emotional, and public sphere at the time of COVID-19. An investigation on concrete and abstract concepts.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemics has dramatically affected people's lives. Among newly established practices, it has likely enriched our conceptual representations with new components. We tested this by asking Italian participants during the first lockdown to rate a set of diverse words on several crucial dimensions. We found concepts are organized along a main axis opposing internal and external grounding, with fine-grained distinctions within the two categories underlining the role of emotions. We also show through a comparison with existing data that Covid-19 impacted the organization of conceptual representations. For instance, subclasses of abstract concepts that are usually distinct converge into a unitary group, characterized by emotions and internal grounding. Additionally, we fo

SUBMITTER: Mazzuca C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8784207 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature