Freddi Sébastien, Brouillet Thibaut, Cretenet Joël, Heurley Loïc P, Dru Vincent
U.F.R. STAPS, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense, France.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2016 Jun;23(3):865-70. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0950-0.
In this research, we examined whether emotional valence could correspond to a continuous lateral bias in space, according to a mental metaphor that establishes the mapping between a concrete domain (space) and an abstract one (valence). Because acting with one's dominant hand is associated with fluency and positive valence (the bodily specificity hypothesis, or BSH), we asked strong right- and left-handers to perform two spatial location tasks using emotional faces with seven levels of valence. We hypothesized and showed through two studies that, according to the BSH, extreme valenced stimuli (as compared to moderate and weak ones) would be located more at the extremity of a horizontal line, according to the correspondences between handedness and the different valences of the stimuli. This research establishes that spatial and continuous mapping of emotions was obtained while controlling for motivational direction.
在本研究中，我们根据一种在具体领域（空间）和抽象领域（效价）之间建立映射的心理隐喻，考察了情绪效价是否能对应于空间中连续的侧向偏向。由于用优势手行动与流畅性和正性效价相关联（身体特异性假说，即BSH），我们让惯用右手和左手的人使用具有七个效价水平的情绪化面孔执行两项空间定位任务。我们通过两项研究进行了假设并证明，根据身体特异性假说，与中等和弱效价刺激相比，极端效价刺激会根据利手与刺激不同效价之间的对应关系，更多地位于水平线的末端。这项研究表明，在控制动机方向的同时，获得了情绪的空间和连续映射。
