Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer
Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer
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DOI：
10.1080/10926488.2018.1549835
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Boroditsky, Lera
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作者：
Hendricks, Rose K.;Demjen, Zsofia;Boroditsky, Lera
当我们面对困难时，我们如何从情感上评估这种情况？虽然许多因素有助于我们对困难的推理，在这篇文章中，我们专注于语言隐喻在塑造我们如何科普的作用。在五个实验中，我们发现，将一个人的癌症情况框定为一场战斗会鼓励人们相信，如果他们没有康复，那么这个人更有可能感到内疚，而不是将同样的情况框定为一段旅程。相反，旅程框架比战斗框架更有可能鼓励人们做出这样的推断，即人们可以与他们的情况和平相处。我们排除了词汇启动作为这种效果的解释，并检查这些发现的普遍性，以个体差异的参与者和不同类型的hardshipeising，抑郁症的经验。最后，我们研究的语言参与者遇到这些隐喻之一后，我们发现的倾向，重复和扩展遇到的隐喻。总之，这些实验揭示了语言隐喻在我们情感评估困难情况的方式中的影响作用。
When faced with hardship, how do we emotionally appraise the situation? Although many factors contribute to our reasoning about hardships, in this article we focus on the role of linguistic metaphor in shaping how we cope. In five experiments, we find that framing a person's cancer situation as a battle encourages people to believe that that person is more likely to feel guilty if they do not recover than framing the same situation as a journey does. Conversely, the journey frame is more likely to encourage the inference that the person can make peace with their situation than the battle frame. We rule out lexical priming as an explanation for this effect and examine the generalizability of these findings to individual differences across participants and to a different type of hardshipnamely, an experience with depression. Finally, we examine the language participants produced after encountering one of these metaphors, and we find tendencies to repeat and extend the metaphors encountered. Together, these experiments shed light on the influential role of linguistic metaphor in the way we emotionally appraise hardship situations.