Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles is an interdisciplinary study that describes a new
perspective on psychopathology based on the search for the source of personal meaning …

Mindfulness training has had salutary effects with adult populations and it is seen as a
potentially helpful to children's development. How to implement mindfulness practices with …

Although perceived differences between outgroup social categories and the self are often
cited as a major contributor to prejudice and intergroup tension, surprisingly few studies …

Previous work showed that concrete experiences of weight influence people's judgments of
how important certain issues are. In line with an embodied simulation account but contrary to …

What leads people to describe some of their interpersonal relationships as “close” and
“warm” and others as “distant” and “cold”? Landau, Meier, and Keefer (2010) proposed that …

Recent studies suggest that readers develop richer multidimensional situation models when
they mentally participate as characters in narrative worlds. The present study tested this by …

Four experiments demonstrate that closing one's eyes affects ethical judgment and behavior
because it induces people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who …

Since the proposal of conceptual metaphors as the representational means for grounding
abstract concepts in concrete sensorio-motor experiences, experimental research about this …

Drawing on conceptual metaphor perspectives and embodied cognition theories, we
proposed that the intrinsic self-concept–who people think they truly are–is represented …

A class of metaphors links the experience of anger to perceptions of redness. Whether such
metaphors have significant implications for understanding perception is not known. In …