The Influence Of Emotional Vertical Spatial Metaphor On Analogical Reasoning

concepts play an important role in our daily life and study,and are also valued in academic research,focusing on how they are represented and understood.In linguistics,metaphor is often regarded as a linguistic phenomenon.With the rise of the second generation of cognitive science,conceptual metaphor theory has emerged,which recognizes that people represent abstract concepts through embodied experience,and this process is called metaphor.At present,there are not many studies on the emotional vertical space metaphor,and there is no analogical reasoning combining the psychological logic theory and the emotional vertical space metaphor.In this study,two experiments were conducted to investigate whether the primes of vertical spatial metaphor and emotional vertical spatial metaphor affect analogical reasoning tasks.Experiment 1 adopted the spatial stroop paradigm,2×2 double-factor design.Independent variable 1 is word type(positive emotion words and negative emotion words).The second independent variable is the vertical spatial orientation(top and bottom).The dependent variable is the response time and correct rate of the subjects in judging the part of speech of emotional words.Experiment 2 was a single-factor inter-subject design,and the independent variable was the type of emotional words.There were two levels: positive emotional words presented at the top and negative emotional words presented at the bottom.The dependent variable is the result of analogical reasoning task.Experiment1,according to the result of positive emotions and negative emotion words in consistent condition,the average reaction time of subjects will be significantly shorter than positive emotions and negative emotional words in the inconsistent conditions,participants in the characterization of emotional words are“happiness is top and sadness is bottom”,it exists vertical space metaphor connection,so reaction time of positive emotion words is shorter than negative emotional words,it comes out vertical space metaphor consistency effect.The results of experiment 2show that the positive emotion words presented above has positive vertical spatial metaphor priming effect,which promotes the analogical reasoning task.On the contrary,the negative emotion words presented below generate the negative emotion vertical spatial metaphor priming effect,which inhibits the analogical reasoning task.Through the analysis of the results of analogical reasoning,it is found that the vertical spatial metaphor priming effect of emotion does produce and the vertical spatial metaphor priming effect of emotion will affect the task of analogical reasoning.The overall conclusion of the study is as follows :(1)the psychological reality of vertical spatial metaphor of emotional words.Vertical spatial metaphor does exist in the unconscious level.When the metaphor is consistent,the response is faster;otherwise,it is slower.(2)the vertical spatial metaphor initiation of emotions will have an impact on analogical reasoning.The experiment found that the positive emotion words presented above have a positive vertical spatial metaphor initiation effect of emotions,which promotes analogical reasoning tasks.The negative emotion words presented below the negative emotion vertical space metaphor priming effect on the analogical reasoning task played a inhibitory role.