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Embodied Metaphors And Creative “Acts”, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Suntae Kim, Evan Polman, Lay See Ong, Lin Qiu, Jack A. Goncola, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
Embodied Metaphors And Creative “Acts”, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Suntae Kim, Evan Polman, Lay See Ong, Lin Qiu, Jack A. Goncola, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
Creativity is a highly sought after skill. To inspire people’s creativity, prescriptive advice in the form of metaphors abound: We are encouraged to think outside the box, to consider the problem on one hand, then on the other hand, and to put two and two together to achieve creative breakthroughs. These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition. Inspired by recent advances on body-mind linkages under the emerging vernacular of embodied cognition, we explored for the first time whether enacting metaphors for creativity enhances creative problem-solving. In five studies, findings revealed that both physically and psychologically …
Culture, Psyche, And Body Make Each Other Up, Dov Cohen, Angela K. Y. Leung, Hans Ijzerman
Culture, Psyche, And Body Make Each Other Up, Dov Cohen, Angela K. Y. Leung, Hans Ijzerman
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
The commentaries make important points, including ones about the purposeful uses of embodiment effects. Research examining such effects needs to look at how such effects play themselves out in people's everyday lives. Research might usefully integrate work on embodiment with work on attribution and work in other disciplines concerned with body–psyche connections (e.g., research on somaticizing versus “psychologizing” illnesses and hypercognizing versus hypocognizing emotions). Such work may help us understand the way positive and negative feedback loops operate as culture, psyche, and body make each other up.
Embodied Cultural Cognition: The Soft Embodiment Of Cultural Imperatives And The Hard Embodiment Of Moral Worldviews, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
Embodied Cultural Cognition: The Soft Embodiment Of Cultural Imperatives And The Hard Embodiment Of Moral Worldviews, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
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Psychological Perspective And Physical Body Comportment As Carriers Of Culture, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
Psychological Perspective And Physical Body Comportment As Carriers Of Culture, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
No abstract provided.
Embodied Cultural Cognition: How Is Culture Carried By Our Bodily Experiences?, Angela K.-Y. Leung
Embodied Cultural Cognition: How Is Culture Carried By Our Bodily Experiences?, Angela K.-Y. Leung
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
No abstract provided.
The Soft Embodiment Of Culture, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
The Soft Embodiment Of Culture, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
No abstract provided.
The Hard Embodiment Of Culture, Dov Cohen, Angela K. Y. Leung
The Hard Embodiment Of Culture, Dov Cohen, Angela K. Y. Leung
Ka Yee Angela LEUNG
The way humans move and comport their bodies is one way they (literally) carry their culture. In pre-wired embodiments, body comportment triggers basic, evolutionarily prepared affective and cognitive reactions that subsequently prime more complex representations. Culture suffuses this process, because (1) cultural artifacts, affordances, and practices make certain body comportments more likely, (2) cultural practices, rituals, schemas, and rules promote the learning of an otherwise underspecified connection between a given body comportment and a particular basic reaction, and (3) cultural meaning systems elaborate basic affective and cognitive reactions into more complex representations. These points are illustrated with three experiments that …