Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and nonemotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus

被引:11
作者
Oosterwijk, Suzanne [1 ,2 ]
Winkielman, Piotr [3 ]
Pecher, Diane [4 ]
Zeelenberg, Rene [4 ]
Rotteveel, Mark [2 ]
Fischer, Agneta H. [2 ]
机构
[1] Northeastern Univ, Dept Psychol, Interdisciplinary Affect Sci Lab, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[4] Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam, Netherlands
关键词
Embodied cognition; Simulation; Language; Abstract concepts; Mental states; Emotion; Affect; Introspection; NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE; SITUATION MODELS; COGNITION; MODALITY; SYSTEMS; MIND; ACCESSIBILITY; PERSPECTIVE;
D O I
10.3758/s13421-011-0134-8
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Mental states-such as thinking, remembering, or feeling angry, happy, or dizzy-have a clear internal component. We feel a certain way when we are in these states. These internal experiences may be simulated when people understand conceptual references to mental states. However, mental states can also be described from an "external" perspective, for example when referring to "smiling." In those cases, simulation of visible outside features may be more relevant for understanding. In a switching costs paradigm, we presented semantically unrelated sentences describing emotional and nonemotional mental states while manipulating their internal or external focus. The results show that switching costs occur when participants shift between sentences with an internal and an external focus. This suggests that different forms of simulation underlie understanding these sentences. In addition, these effects occurred for emotional and nonemotional mental states, suggesting that they are grounded in a similar way-through the process of simulation.
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页码:93 / 100
页数:8
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