Abstract
Research reveals that the ego- and time-moving representations, two divergent ways to talk and think about time, are psychologically meaningful: They are, for example, linked to agency. This research has, however, mainly been correlational in nature and only been conducted amongst English speakers, even though cross-linguistic differences are readily observed in research on time representation. The present research addresses these limitations. In the first study, we explore the causal relation amongst English speakers and show that feelings of personal agency lead to the adoption of the ego-moving representation. In the second and third study, we replicate the first study and conduct a correlational study amongst Dutch speakers. We find no proof for a similar relation between agency and time representation amongst Dutch speakers. In discussing the findings, the role language plays in shaping preferences is considered as well as the methodological issues that need to be addressed by future research.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 353-375 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 23 Jan 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2019 |
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a VICI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded to Lydia Krabbendam (Grant No. 453-11-005). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article. The authors would like to thank Joshua Skewes for his assistance with the Bayesian analyses. We are also grateful to our two reviewers and Howie Giles for their time and constructive feedback that helped us improve the article. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a VICI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded to Lydia Krabbendam (Grant No. 453-11-005). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article.
Keywords
- agency
- cross-linguistic differences
- ego-moving
- time representation
- time-moving
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