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| The Emotional Metaphor of Difficult Concepts and its Bidirectional Mapping |
| XIA Liu ZHANG Fang-wen MA Xiao TAO Yun |
| ( Faculty of Education, Key Laboratory of Educational Information for Nationalities, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China) |
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Abstract To explore the implicit links between the concepts of difficulty and ease and different emotions, 58 college students completed two experiments applied the sequential priming paradigm. the results showed that the congruent condition (positive emotion/ease, negative emotion/difficulty; ease/positive emotion, difficulty/negative emotion) were processed faster than the incongruent condition (positive emotion/difficulty, negative emotion/ease; ease/negative emotion, difficulty/positive emotion). These results indicate that positive emotion could imply ease, negative emotion could imply difficulty, ease could carry positive emotion, difficulty could carry negative emotion. These provide direct evidences for the bidirectional mapping of difficult concepts and emotions.
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Published: 09 March 2020
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