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  1. War metaphors in public discourse.Stephen J. Flusberg, Teenie Matlock & Paul H. Thibodeau - 2018 - Metaphor and Symbol 33 (1):1-18.
    War metaphors are ubiquitous in discussions of everything from political campaigns to battles with cancer to wars against crime, drugs, poverty, and even salad. Why are warfare metaphors so common, and what are the potential benefits and costs to using them to frame important social and political issues? We address these questions in a detailed case study by reviewing the empirical literature on the subject and by advancing our own theoretical account of the structure and function of war metaphors in (...)
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    How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality.Kevin J. Holmes, Evan M. Doherty & Stephen J. Flusberg - 2022 - Thinking and Reasoning 28 (2):226-260.
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    Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions.Paul H. Thibodeau & Stephen J. Flusberg - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (S5):1168-1182.
    Political discourse is saturated with metaphor, but evidence for the persuasive power of this language has been hard to come by. We addressed this issue by investigating whether voting intentions were affected by implicit mappings suggested by a metaphorically framed message, drawing on a real-world example of political rhetoric about the federal budget. In the first experiment, the federal budget was framed as similar to or different from a household budget, though the information participants received was identical in both conditions. (...)
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    Effects of Communication Modality and Speaker Identity on Metaphor Framing.Stephen J. Flusberg, Mark Lauria, Samuel Balko & Paul H. Thibodeau - 2020 - Metaphor and Symbol 35 (2):136-152.
    People regularly encounter metaphors in a variety of different communicative settings, but most studies of metaphor framing have relied exclusively on written materials. Across three experiments (N...
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    Even simple framing effects are rational.Stephen J. Flusberg, Paul H. Thibodeau & Kevin J. Holmes - 2022 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e228.
    Bermúdez persuasively argues that framing effects are not as irrational as commonly supposed. In focusing on the reasoning of individual decision-makers in complex situations, however, he neglects the crucial role of the social-communicative context for eliciting certain framing effects. We contend that many framing effects are best explained in terms of basic, rational principles of discourse processing and pragmatic reasoning.
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    Environmental inversion effects in face perception.Nicolas Davidenko & Stephen J. Flusberg - 2012 - Cognition 123 (3):442-447.
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    Compound Words Reflect Cross‐Culturally Shared Bodily Metaphors.Kevin J. Holmes, Stephen J. Flusberg & Paul H. Thibodeau - 2018 - Cognitive Science 42 (8):3071-3082.
    Parts of the body are often embedded in the structure of compound words, such asheartbreakandbrainchild. We explored the relationships between the semantics of compounds and their constituent body parts, asking whether these relationships are largely arbitrary or instead reflect deeper metaphorical mappings shared across languages and cultures. In three studies, we found that U.S. English speakers associated the English translation equivalents of Chinese compounds with their constituent body parts at rates well above chance, even for compounds with highly abstract meanings (...)
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    The Depression Schema: How Labels, Features, and Causal Explanations Affect Lay Conceptions of Depression.Paul H. Thibodeau, Mira J. Fein, Elizabeth S. Goodbody & Stephen J. Flusberg - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    Massive redeployment or distributed modularity?Alexia Toskos Dils & Stephen J. Flusberg - 2010 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (4):292-293.
    In distinguishing itself from other distributed approaches to cognition, Anderson's theory of neural reuse is susceptible to some of the same criticisms that have been leveled at modular approaches. Specifically, neural reuse theories state that: (1) the of a given brain circuit is fixed, rather than shaped by its input, and (2) that high-level cognitive behaviors can be cleanly mapped onto a specific set of brain circuits in a non-contextualized manner.
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