Publication year
2012Number of pages
6 p.
Source
Acta Psychologica, 140, 3, (2012), pp. 283-288ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Acta Psychologica
Volume
vol. 140
Issue
iss. 3
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 283
Page end
p. 288
Subject
PsycholinguisticsAbstract
Being ostracized or excluded, even briefly and by strangers, is painful and threatens fundamental needs. Recent work by Zhong and Leonardelli (2008) found that excluded individuals perceive the room as cooler and that they desire warmer drinks. A perspective that many rely on in embodiment is the theoretical idea that people use metaphorical associations to understand social exclusion (see Landau, Meier, & Keefer, 2010). We suggest that people feel colder because they are colder. The results strongly support the idea that more complex metaphorical understandings of social relations are scaffolded onto literal changes in bodily temperature: Being excluded in an online ball tossing game leads to lower finger temperatures (Study 1), while the negative affect typically experienced after such social exclusion is alleviated after holding a cup of warm tea (Study 2). The authors discuss further implications for the interaction between body and social relations specifically, and for basic and cognitive systems in general.
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