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    "pk": 26500,
    "title": "Which is in front of Chinese people: Past or Future?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Recent research shows that Chinese, when they gesture\nabout time, tend to put the past “ahead” and the future\n“behind”. Do they think of time in the way as suggested by\ntheir gestures? In this study we investigate whether Chinese\npeople explicitly have such past-in-front mappings. In\nexperiment 1 we show that when time conceptions are\nconstructed with neutral wording (without spatial\nmetaphors), Chinese people are more likely to have a past-\nin-front-mapping than Spaniards. This could be due to\ncultural differences in temporal focus of attention, in that\nChinese people are more past-oriented than Europeans.\nHowever, additional experiments (2 & 3) show that,\nindependent of culture, Chinese people’s past-in-front\nmapping is sensitive to the wording of sagittal spatial\nmetaphors. In comparison to a neutral condition, they have\nmore past-in-front mappings when time conceptions are\nconstructed with past-in-front spatial metaphors (“front\nday”, means the day before yesterday), whereas fewer past-\nin-front mappings are constructed with future-in-front\nmetaphors. There thus appear to be both long-term effects\nof cultural attitudes on the spatialization of time, and also\nimmediate effects of the space-time metaphors used to\nprobe people’s mental representations.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cross-cultural differences; space and time;\nconceptual metaphor; Chinese; Temporal Focus Hypothesis"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b64t3hp",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yeqiu",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zheng",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marc",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Swerts",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}