{"pk":29447,"title":"A Cross-Cultural Principle Of Temporal Spatialization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Temporal Focus Hypothesis proposes that a person’s tendency to conceptualize either the past or the future as beinglocated in front of them depends on their temporal focus: the balance of attention paid to the past (tradition) and thefuture (progress). How general is the TFH and to what extent can cultures and subcultures be placed on a single linerelating time spatialization and temporal focus in spite of stark differences in language, religion, history, and economicdevelopment? Data from 10 Western and Middle Eastern (sub)cultural groups (N=1198) were used to derive a linearmodel relating aggregated temporal focus and proportion of future-in-front responses. This model then successfully fittednine independently collected (sub)cultural groups in China and Vietnam (N=841). A logistic mixed model computedover the whole dataset (N=2039) showed that the group-level relation arose at the individual level and allowed precisequantification of its influence. Temporal focus shapes how people around the world think of time in spatial terms.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Spatial Cognition","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31w9s8db","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Carmen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Callizo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Granada","department":""},{"first_name":"Slavica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tutnjevi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Banja-Luka","department":""},{"first_name":"Maja","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pandza","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Mostar","department":""},{"first_name":"Marc","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ouellet","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Granada","department":""},{"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kranjec","name_suffix":"","institution":"Duquesne University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sladjana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ili","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tuzla","department":""},{"first_name":"Yan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCL","department":""},{"first_name":"Tilbe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gksun","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ko University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sobh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chahboun","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queen Maud University College","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Casasanto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Julio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Santiago","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Granada","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29447/galley/19307/download/"}]}