Social cognition is the scientific study of the cognitive events underlying social thought and
attitudes. Currently, the field's prevailing theoretical perspectives are the traditional schema …

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

A long tradition of psychological research has explored the distinction between
characteristics that are part of the self and those that lie outside of it. Recently, a surge of …

In a comprehensive meta-analysis of 167 studies, the authors found that sequential priming
tasks were significantly associated with behavioral measures (r=. 28) and with explicit …

Psychologists are increasingly interested in embodiment based on the assumption that
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are grounded in bodily interaction with the environment …

The belief that individuals have a “true self” plays an important role in many areas of
psychology as well as everyday life. The present studies demonstrate that people have a …

Nowadays, technology is increasingly used to increase people's well-being. For example,
many mobile and Web-based apps have been developed that can support people to …

Marketers routinely use metaphors to compare abstract concepts to concrete concepts in
remote domains. For example, a tagline “Supercharge your day” compares energy to …

People sometimes explain behavior by appealing to an essentialist concept of the self, often
referred to as the true self. Existing studies suggest that people tend to believe that the true …

We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for
poets. But we now know that it is also a key strategy people use to make sense of the world …