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Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Taste metaphors provide a rich vocabulary for describing emotional experience, potentially serving as an adaptive mechanism for conveying abstract emotional concepts using concrete verbal references to our shared experience. We theorized that the popularity of these e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938663 |
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author | Avery, Jason A. Liu, Alexander G. Carrington, Madeline Martin, Alex |
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description | “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Taste metaphors provide a rich vocabulary for describing emotional experience, potentially serving as an adaptive mechanism for conveying abstract emotional concepts using concrete verbal references to our shared experience. We theorized that the popularity of these expressions results from the close association with hedonic valence shared by these two domains of experience. To explore the possibility that this affective quality underlies the semantic similarity of these domains, we used a behavioral “odd-one-out” task in an online sample of 1059 participants in order to examine the semantic similarity of concepts related to emotion, taste, and color, another rich source of sensory metaphors. We found that the semantic similarity of emotion and taste concepts was greater than that of emotion and color concepts. Importantly, the similarity of taste and emotion concepts was strongly related to their similarity in hedonic valence, a relationship which was also significantly greater than that present between color and emotion. These results suggest that the common core of valence between taste and emotion concepts allows us to bridge the conceptual divide between our shared sensory environment and our internal emotional experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-93146372022-07-27 Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence Avery, Jason A. Liu, Alexander G. Carrington, Madeline Martin, Alex Front Psychol Psychology “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Taste metaphors provide a rich vocabulary for describing emotional experience, potentially serving as an adaptive mechanism for conveying abstract emotional concepts using concrete verbal references to our shared experience. We theorized that the popularity of these expressions results from the close association with hedonic valence shared by these two domains of experience. To explore the possibility that this affective quality underlies the semantic similarity of these domains, we used a behavioral “odd-one-out” task in an online sample of 1059 participants in order to examine the semantic similarity of concepts related to emotion, taste, and color, another rich source of sensory metaphors. We found that the semantic similarity of emotion and taste concepts was greater than that of emotion and color concepts. Importantly, the similarity of taste and emotion concepts was strongly related to their similarity in hedonic valence, a relationship which was also significantly greater than that present between color and emotion. These results suggest that the common core of valence between taste and emotion concepts allows us to bridge the conceptual divide between our shared sensory environment and our internal emotional experience. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9314637/ /pubmed/35903735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938663 Text en Copyright © 2022 Avery, Liu, Carrington and Martin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Avery, Jason A. Liu, Alexander G. Carrington, Madeline Martin, Alex Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title | Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title_full | Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title_fullStr | Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title_full_unstemmed | Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title_short | Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence |
title_sort | taste metaphors ground emotion concepts through the shared attribute of valence |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938663 |
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