The Soft Embodiment of Culture: Camera Angles and Motion through Time and Space

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 18; no. 9; pp. 824 - 830
• Main Authors: Leung, Angela K.-y., Cohen, Dov
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Blackwell Publishing 01.09.2007; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Asian Americans; Asian Americans - psychology; Attitudes; Beliefs; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition - physiology; Cognitive models; Cognitive psychology; Comprehension - physiology; Contrapuntal motion; Culture; Embodiment; European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology; Friends - psychology; Humans; Imagination - physiology; Injunctions; Language; Literary characters; Metaphor; Motion; Movement - physiology; Narration; Narrative point of view; Protagonists; Psychology; Reaction Time - physiology; Social Behavior; Social norms; Social Perception; Social psychology; Social situations; Space; Space Perception - physiology; Time; Time Perception - physiology

Cultural assumptions about one's relation to others and one's place in the world can be literally embodied in the way one cognitively maps out one 's position and motion in time and space. In three experiments, we examined the psychological perspective that Asian American and Euro-Ame...