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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

Peter was a student in his early twenties, and apart from several inconsequential trysts, had spent most of his life alone and indifferent to the world of love and romance. He had, in fact, become so accustomed to this lifestyle that he assumed... / more

Positive Psychology and the Importance of Close Relationships in TV Sitcoms: That 70s Show, Entourage, and How I Met Your Mother

... and help each other flourish. They are a pop culture embodiment of  positive psychology . Self-Determination Theory ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... to a wide variety of factors potentially relevant to embodiment . For example, people can vary in the extent to which they attend ... impact attitudes. In G. R. Semin & E. R. Smith (Eds.),  Embodiment grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... peanutbutter, a particular Dutch singer, and theories of embodiment ), they see themselves as very different from others who do not ... lover, or as a fan of a particular Dutch singer, or as an embodiment researcher), their social world is divided into an in-group ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

... Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Seibt, B. (2007).  The embodiment of power and communalism in space and bodily contact.  In G. R. ... / more

Evolution of Religion

... L. W., Barbey, A. K., Simmons, W.K., & Santos, A. (2005). Embodiment in religious knowledge. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 14 ... / more

Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.

... Lakens, D., & Schubert, T. W. (2009). Weight as an embodiment of importance. Psychological Science, 20(9), 1169-1174. ... / more

Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment

You have likely experienced the phenomenon. Perhaps it occurred on the walk from the train after an exhausting day at the office. Or maybe you noticed it on the uphill trek to class while lugging a backpack stuffed with textbooks. That hill... / more

More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions

... N.B., Lakens, D., & Schubert, T.W. (2009). Weight as an embodiment of importance. Psychological Science, 20, 1169–1174. ... & Schwarz, N. (2010). Dirty hands and dirty mouths: Embodiment of the moral-purity metaphor is specific to the motor ... / more

Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema

... how to really get immune against it. According to embodiment theory (e.g., Barsalou, 1999; Semin & Smith, 2008), the objects ... complexity and go with your gut. But again, oral embodiment predicts that this “gut” is actually in your mouth. Topolinski ... / more