The Indian caste system is a complex social structure wherein social roles like one's
profession became 'hereditary,'resulting in restricted social mobility and fixed status …

Consumers describe luxury goods as “high-status” goods that are associated with the “upper
class.” If these spatial metaphors are valid, then consumers should prefer luxury goods …

In this chapter, we argue that the way we read and write exerts a pervasive, subtle, and
generally unacknowledged influence on social cognition. We propose a theoretical model …

People draw from physical properties like spatial location to better understand complex
concepts like power (Landau, Meier, & Keefer, 2010; TW Schubert, 2005). We examined the …

中国礼文化蕴含着丰富的隐喻机制, 其中蜷缩的身体动作如弯腰, 俯视, 跪是与高社会地位群体
社交的常用姿势. 通过3 个社会情境实验考察身体蜷缩程度与社会地位的隐喻效应. 实验1 …

Previous evidence demonstrates that power is mentally represented as vertical space by
adults. However, little is known about how power is mentally represented in children. The …

Humans build hierarchical relations, in which they coordinate according to rankings.
Rankings need to be mentally represented in order to be communicated and constituted …

Background The persistently high out-of-pocket health spending (OOPHE) in Africa raise
significant concern about the prospect of reaching SDG health targets and UHC. The study …

We examined whether people can simultaneously apply 2 cognitive strategies in social
categorizations. Specifically, we tested whether stereotypes concerning social power of …

Background The unequal distribution of government health spending within African regional
economic groupings is a significant barrier to achieving Universal Health Coverage and …