Keep your hands crossed: the valence-by-left/right interaction is related to hand, not side, in an incongruent hand-response key assignment.

摘要: Abstract The body-specificity hypothesis ( Casasanto, 2009 ) associates positive emotional valence and the space surrounding dominant hand, negative non-dominant hand. This effect has not only been found for manual responses, but also left right side. In present study, we investigated whether this compatibility still shows when hand side carry incongruent information, it is then related to or We conducted two experiments which used an hand–response key assignment, that is, participants had their hands crossed. Participants were instructed respond with vs. (Experiment 1) 2). both experiments, a emerged, indicating association between overrides one contradicting information.