More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. List of Contributors VII
4. Introduction: The interrelation of spatial and social cognition 1
5. Section A. Spatial dimensions and social thought
6. Spatial thought, social thought 17
7. Flexible foundations of abstract thought: A review and a theory 39
8. Estimates of spatial distance: A Construal Level Theory perspective 109
9. Embodiment in affective space: Social influences on spatial perception 129
10. More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience 153
11. Section B. Horizontal asymmetries and social thought
12. Directional asymmetries in cognition: What is left to write about? 189
13. Understanding spatial bias in face perception and memory 211
14. Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account 231
15. Cultural and biological interaction in visuospatial organization 257
16. Aesthetic asymmetries, spatial agency, and art history: A social psychological perspective 277
17. Writing direction, agency and gender stereotyping: An embodied connection 303
18. Who is the second (graphed) sex and why? The meaning of order in graphs of gender differences 325
19. Index 351