Background “Nudging”—modifying environments to change people's behavior, often without
their conscious awareness—can improve health, but public acceptability of nudging is …

Highlights•Manipulations in multiple sensorimotor modalities activate abstract
constructs.•Multimodal priming effects can occur through embodied metaphors.• …

This chapter provides a guide for methodological decision making before data is collected
and analyzed. The toolbox of strategies provided in this chapter will enable the reader to:(1) …

The act of physically cleaning one's hands may reduce the impact of past experiences,
termed clean-slate effect. Cleaning was found to affect negative, neutral, and mildly positive …

Mind and body form an inseparable system. A full analysis of social cognition cannot afford
to ignore bodily processes. Highlighting this theme, our chapter leverages the broad …

The body figures prominently in common language definitions of the term attitude. The
Oxford Dictionary (nd) refers to “a position of the body indicating a particular mental state …

People regularly encounter metaphors in a variety of different communicative settings, but
most studies of metaphor framing have relied exclusively on written materials. Across three …

Inconsistency among findings in the embodied cognition literature suggests a need for
theoretical boundary conditions. The current research proposes that conscious attention of a …

Previous studies have found that sweet perception affects the subjective evaluation of
interpersonal intimacy and romantic semantic processing. However, the cognitive processes …

People use lay theories to understand their worlds, including the body and diseases.
Conceptual metaphors are similar to lay theories in their use of a simple domain to …