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Embodiment of Abstract Concepts: Good and Bad in Right- and Left-Handers
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Casasanto, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the "body-specificity hypothesis," people who interact with their physical environments in systematically different ways should form correspondingly different mental representations. In a test of this hypothesis, 5 experiments investigated links between handedness and the…
Descriptors: Handedness, Cognitive Processes, Physical Environment, Hypothesis Testing