Can an avatar's body movements change a person's perception of good and bad? We
discuss virtual embodiment according to theories of embodied cognition (EC), and afferent …

Previous research found associations between lower vs. upper space and negative vs.
positive stimuli correspondingly (vertical Space-Valence Associations, SVAs) and between …

A key question about the function of emoji is whether or not they are emotional. This is not
yet fully established, and the literature presents mixed evidence. We used the Emoji Spatial …

Abstract Casasanto (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351–367,)
conceptualised the body-specificity hypothesis by empirically finding that right-handed …

Conceptual congruency effects have been interpreted as evidence for the idea that the
representations of abstract conceptual dimensions (eg, power, affective valence, time …

The relationship between language processing and vertical space has been shown for
various groups of words including valence words, implicit location words, and words …

Parity is important semantic information encoded by numbers. Interestingly, there are hand-
based effects in parity judgment tasks: right-hand responses are faster for even and left …

The traditional view of cognition as detached from emotions is recently being questioned.
This study aimed to investigate the influence of emotional valence on the accuracy and bias …

Although there is increasing evidence to suggest that language is grounded in perception
and action, the relationship between language and emotion is less well understood. We …

People implicitly associate different emotions with different locations in left‐right space.
Which aspects of emotion do they spatialize, and why? Across many studies people …