There are few constructs that are as ubiquitous across traditions of management and
organizational research, and indeed the social sciences more generally, as that of frame or …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Social cognition is the scientific study of the cognitive events underlying social thought and
attitudes. Currently, the field's prevailing theoretical perspectives are the traditional schema …

We argue that creating novel ventures consists of inductive analogical or metaphorical
reasoning, which generates a platform for the creation and commercialization of novel …

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively.
Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered …

Analogy is an inductive mechanism based on structured comparisons of mental
representations. It is an important special case of role-based relational reasoning, in which …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

A central question in metaphor research is how metaphors establish mappings between
concepts from different domains. The authors propose an evolutionary path based on …

'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of
another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of …