Action Contribution to Competence Judgments: The Use of the Journey Schema

摘要: The current research considered the question of how performing an action, or merely preparing body for can have impact on social judgments related to person perception. Participants were asked ascribe competence and warmth characteristics a target by reading metaphoric text while their was manipulated be prepared processing action-congruent information. In Experiment 1, participants whose forward action matched described in ascribed more politician than did control participants. 2, movement also addition, data from 2 ruled out alternative non-embodied explanation (i.e., that effect is due basic associative processes) grounded existing literatures attitudes demonstrating manipulation had no when non-metaphoric used. Finally, evidence found affects judgments. These studies converge movements enhance favorability these match text.