Living in an Asymmetrical World - How Writing Direction Affects Thought and Action

There has recently been a renewed interest in the role of spatial dimensions in social cognition, and how vertical and horizontal trajectories are used to represent social concepts such as power, agency, aggression, and dominance.

List of contents

Introduction: Spatial Bias Under a Cross-Cultural Perspective  1. The Problems, its Genesis  2. The Orientation of the Field of Vision in Mother-Tongue Arabic Children  3. Right-Left Orientation and Reading French  4. Recent Developments: Theoretical Approaches and Extensions to the Social Domain  5. Research Practices Evolving Over Time

About the author

Anne Maass is Professor of Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy.
Caterina Suitner is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy.
Jean-Pierre Deconchy is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Paris X Nanterre, France.

Summary

There has recently been a renewed interest in the role of spatial dimensions in social cognition, and how vertical and horizontal trajectories are used to represent social concepts such as power, agency, aggression, and dominance.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Pierre Deconchy, Deconchy Jean-Pierre, Anne Maass, Anne Suitner Maass, Maass Anne, Caterina Suitner, Suitner Caterina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2017
• EAN: 9781138637252
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63725-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psycholinguistics, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics