A feeling for the future: How does agency in time metaphors relate to feelings?

摘要: Most cultures have metaphors for time that involve movement, example, ‘time passes’. Although is objectively measured, it subjectively understood, as we can perceive stationary, whereby move towards future events, or ourselves with moving past us and events us. This paper reports a series of studies first examines whether people think about in metaphor-consistent manner (Study 1) then explores the relationship between perspective’, level perceived personal agency, representations 2), emotional experiences representation 3), this bidirectional by manipulating either 4) 5). Results provide evidence an ego-moving time, happiness eliciting more agentic control, time-moving passivity associated anxiety depression. suggests our malleable, therefore, current may change through modification representations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.