APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Judging Others: A Middle Eastern Perspective of Embodied Cognition

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cognitive

  • Alkwother Alhammad
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Khadijah Aldabbag
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Eman Abdulhadi
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Halah Al Kuhayli
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Khadija El Alaoui
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Huda Mulhem
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  • Pilotti Maura
    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

Abstract

This study examines whether purity and taste metaphors, which recruit perceptual experiences to explain abstract concepts, affect participants whose religious practices embody such metaphors. Before judging the unethical conduct of fictitious characters, Muslims tested either candies or wipes. Relative to a neutral point, wipes and candies led to opposite judgments.

Cultural

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