The Interplay between Emotion and Time Movement Metaphors: A Cross-cultural Study between English Speakers and Mandarin Speakers
(2019) PSYP01 20191Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Time is often talked about in terms of movement metaphors because that can provide a more concrete spatial experience to understand the abstract concept of time. Specifically, there are two kinds of time movement metaphors: ego-moving metaphor implies that people perceive themselves as agents moving through time; time-moving metaphor implies that people comprehend time as a conveyor belt moving toward them. Previous studies suggested that emotion can influence the explicit choice of time movement perspectives. Yet, it is still unclear whether emotional information from a sentence and facial expression can influence time movement perspectives by implicit reaction time paradigm as well as to what extent these relations can be generalized... (More)
- Time is often talked about in terms of movement metaphors because that can provide a more concrete spatial experience to understand the abstract concept of time. Specifically, there are two kinds of time movement metaphors: ego-moving metaphor implies that people perceive themselves as agents moving through time; time-moving metaphor implies that people comprehend time as a conveyor belt moving toward them. Previous studies suggested that emotion can influence the explicit choice of time movement perspectives. Yet, it is still unclear whether emotional information from a sentence and facial expression can influence time movement perspectives by implicit reaction time paradigm as well as to what extent these relations can be generalized across cultures. Thus, this study used a temporal inference task to investigate the emotional effects of semantic valence and facial expressions on the inference process of time metaphors among English speakers and Mandarin speakers. Findings indicate that semantic valence, metaphor type, and culture jointly influence the response time of temporal inference. Especially, the results imply an association between negative semantic valence and time-moving metaphor among Mandarin speakers, but not among English speakers. However, no significant effect of facial expressions was found. The present study offers new aspects of emotion and time movement perspectives in terms of temporal inference processing across European English speakers and East Asian Mandarin speakers. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (Less)
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- author
- Wu, Yu-Hsin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- time movement metaphor, ego-moving, time-moving, semantic valence, facial expression, cross-cultural differences
- language
- English
- id
- 8985133
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- 2019-06-18 11:39:16
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abstract = {{Time is often talked about in terms of movement metaphors because that can provide a more concrete spatial experience to understand the abstract concept of time. Specifically, there are two kinds of time movement metaphors: ego-moving metaphor implies that people perceive themselves as agents moving through time; time-moving metaphor implies that people comprehend time as a conveyor belt moving toward them. Previous studies suggested that emotion can influence the explicit choice of time movement perspectives. Yet, it is still unclear whether emotional information from a sentence and facial expression can influence time movement perspectives by implicit reaction time paradigm as well as to what extent these relations can be generalized across cultures. Thus, this study used a temporal inference task to investigate the emotional effects of semantic valence and facial expressions on the inference process of time metaphors among English speakers and Mandarin speakers. Findings indicate that semantic valence, metaphor type, and culture jointly influence the response time of temporal inference. Especially, the results imply an association between negative semantic valence and time-moving metaphor among Mandarin speakers, but not among English speakers. However, no significant effect of facial expressions was found. The present study offers new aspects of emotion and time movement perspectives in terms of temporal inference processing across European English speakers and East Asian Mandarin speakers. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.}},
author = {{Wu, Yu-Hsin}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Interplay between Emotion and Time Movement Metaphors: A Cross-cultural Study between English Speakers and Mandarin Speakers}},
year = {{2019}},
}