Moved by Emotions: Affective Concepts Representing Personal Life Events Induce Freely Performed Steps in Line With Combined Sagittal and Lateral Space-Valence Associations

Embodiment approaches to cognition and emotion have put forth the idea that the way we think and talk about affective events often recruits spatial information that stems, to some extent, from our bodily experiences. For example, metaphorical expressions such as “being someone’s right hand” or “leav...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Susana Ruiz Fernández, Lydia Kastner, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Jennifer Müller, Peter Gerjets
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Subjects:	bodily resonance personal life events space-valence associations approach-avoidance behaviors Body Specificity Hypothesis free-choice directional step paradigm
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02787/full