Idioma:

Natural language metaphors covertly influence reasoning

Thibodeau, Paul H ; Boroditsky, Lera Szolnoki, Attila

PloS one, 2013-01, Vol.8 (1), p.e52961 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

Texto completo disponível

Citações Citado por

Enviar para

Título:
Natural language metaphors covertly influence reasoning
Autor: Thibodeau, Paul H ; Boroditsky, Lera
Szolnoki, Attila
Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Analysis ; Attitude ; Climate change ; Computational linguistics ; Crime ; Female ; Humans ; Influence ; Language ; Language processing ; Male ; Medicine ; Memory ; Metaphor ; Metaphors ; Middle Aged ; Natural language interfaces ; Natural language processing ; Politics ; Problem Solving ; Problems ; Psychological aspects ; Punishment ; Reasoning ; Regression Analysis ; Shape memory ; Social and Behavioral Sciences ; Social Behavior ; Social interactions ; Studies ; Thinking ; Viruses ; Young Adult
É parte de: PloS one, 2013-01, Vol.8 (1), p.e52961
Notas: Conceived and designed the experiments: PHT LB. Performed the experiments: PHT. Analyzed the data: PHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PHT. Wrote the paper: PHT LB.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Descrição: Metaphors pervade discussions of social issues like climate change, the economy, and crime. We ask how natural language metaphors shape the way people reason about such social issues. In previous work, we showed that describing crime metaphorically as a beast or a virus, led people to generate different solutions to a city's crime problem. In the current series of studies, instead of asking people to generate a solution on their own, we provided them with a selection of possible solutions and asked them to choose the best ones. We found that metaphors influenced people's reasoning even when they had a set of options available to compare and select among. These findings suggest that metaphors can influence not just what solution comes to mind first, but also which solution people think is best, even when given the opportunity to explicitly compare alternatives. Further, we tested whether participants were aware of the metaphor. We found that very few participants thought the metaphor played an important part in their decision. Further, participants who had no explicit memory of the metaphor were just as much affected by the metaphor as participants who were able to remember the metaphorical frame. These findings suggest that metaphors can act covertly in reasoning. Finally, we examined the role of political affiliation on reasoning about crime. The results confirm our previous findings that Republicans are more likely to generate enforcement and punishment solutions for dealing with crime, and are less swayed by metaphor than are Democrats or Independents.
Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
Idioma: Inglês

Links

View this record in MEDLINE/PubMed

Voltar para lista de resultados

Realização: Logos de Redes Sociais:

Natural language metaphors covertly influence reasoning

Thibodeau, Paul H ; Boroditsky, Lera Szolnoki, Attila

United States: Public Library of Science

Buscando em bases de dados remotas. Favor aguardar.