The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

There has been much work on what people appreciate in art, but comparatively little on what
feelings of appreciation consist in. What do people feel when they encounter artworks that …

The capacity for abstract thought is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. However, the
mechanisms underlying the ability to form and use abstract concepts like 'fantasy'and …

The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded
theories need to face, ie, that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired …

To what extent do aesthetic taste and our interest in the arts constitute who we are? In this
paper, we present a series of empirical findings that suggest an Aesthetic Self Effect …

Business model research has largely focused on business models as real entities, as
cognitive and linguistic schema, and as formal representations. Although such research has …

Recent theories propose that abstract concepts, compared to concrete ones, might activate
to a larger extent interoceptive, social and linguistic experiences. At the same time, recent …

The words we use to describe emotions vary in terms of prototypicality; that is, some of these
words may be more representative of the semantic category of emotion than others (eg …

It has been proposed that social experience plays an important role in the grounding of
concepts, and socialness has been proffered as a fundamental organisational principle …

The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary
debates in cognitive (neuro) science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories …