Physical activity benefits creativity: squeezing a ball for enhancing creativity

JH Kim - Creativity Research Journal, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Studies in embodied cognition show that physical sensations, such as touch and movement,
influence cognitive processes. Two studies were conducted to test whether squeezing a soft …

The mere exposure effect depends on an odor's initial pleasantness

S Delplanque, G Coppin, L Bloesch, I Cayeux… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The mere exposure phenomenon refers to improvement of one's attitude toward an a priori
neutral stimulus after its repeated exposure. The extent to which such a phenomenon …

When imagining yourself in pain, visual perspective matters: The neural and behavioral correlates of simulated sensory experiences

BM Christian, C Parkinson, CN Macrae… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Via mental simulation, imagined events faithfully reproduce the neural and behavioral
activities that accompany their actual occurrence. However, little is known about how …

Body language in the brain: constructing meaning from expressive movement

CM Tipper, G Signorini, ST Grafton - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This fMRI study investigated neural systems that interpret body language—the meaningful
emotive expressions conveyed by body movement. Participants watched videos of …

It's not “all in your head” understanding religion from an embodied cognition perspective

TM Soliman, KA Johnson… - … on Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Theorists and researchers in the psychology of religion have often focused on the mind as
the locus of religion. In this article, we suggest an embodied cognition perspective as a new …

Social priming enhances interpersonal synchronization and feeling of connectedness towards schizophrenia patients

S Raffard, RN Salesse, L Marin, J Del-Monte… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
What leads healthy individuals to abnormal feelings of contact with schizophrenia patients
remains obscure. Despite recent findings that human bonding is an interactive process …

No effect of weight on judgments of importance in the moral domain and evidence of publication bias from a meta-analysis

ALA Rabelo, VN Keller, R Pilati, JM Wicherts - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In different cultures, people use the concept of weight to refer to important matters. Recent
studies in grounded cognition suggested that experiences of weight affect unrelated …

[HTML][HTML] Insights from quantum cognitive models for organizational decision making

LC White, EM Pothos, JR Busemeyer - … of Applied Research in Memory and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Organizational decision making is often explored with theories from the heuristics and
biases research program, which have demonstrated great value as descriptions of how …

权力的概念隐喻表征: 来自大小与颜色隐喻的证据

杨惠兰, 何先友, 赵雪汝, 张维 - 心理学报, 2015 - journal.psych.ac.cn
采用Stroop 和内隐联想范式, 从多重隐喻角度探讨中国文化背景下权力的大小隐喻及颜色隐喻,
包括2 个实验. 实验1 探讨汉语中权力概念能否启动大小隐喻表征. 实验1a 发现在高权力用大号 …

Social transmission of cultural practices and implicit attitudes

Y Kashima, SM Laham, J Dix, B Levis, D Wong… - … Behavior and Human …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cultural dynamics were examined in an experimental setting to investigate the mechanisms
of transmission of cultural practices (what people typically do) and implicit attitudes at the …