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Publication details [#52496]

Beukeboom, Camiel J. and Elisabeth M. de Jong. 2008. When Feelings Speak: How Affective and Proprioceptive Cues Change Language Abstraction. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (2) : 110–122.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abstractness | cognition | emotion | information processing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on previous research demonstrating that affective cues change language abstraction, this paper argues that proprioceptive cues (i.e., bodily feelings) linked with global processing (arm flexion) engender more abstract language usage than bodily feelings linked with analytic processing (arm extension).