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Alban, Michael W.; Kelley, Colleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Weight is conceptualized as an embodiment of importance, according to recent research on embodied cognition (Ackerman, Nocera, & Bargh, 2010; Jostmann, Lakens, & Schubert, 2009). Is importance as embodied by weight used as a cue that items are memorable? Four experiments varied participants' perceptual experiences of weight as they studied…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Metacognition, Schemata (Cognition)