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Direct linkSöllner, Anke; Bröder, Arndt – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
For multiattribute decision tasks, different metaphors exist that describe the process of decision making and its adaptation to diverse problems and situations. Multiple strategy models (MSMs) assume that decision makers choose adaptively from a set of different strategies (toolbox metaphor), whereas evidence accumulation models (EAMs) hold that a…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Models, Figurative Language, Access to Information
Lakens, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Previous research has shown that words presented on metaphor congruent locations (e.g., positive words "up" on the screen and negative words "down" on the screen) are categorized faster than words presented on metaphor incongruent locations (e.g., positive words "down" and negative words "up"). These…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Perception, Congruence (Psychology), Spatial Ability
