Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words
Recent studies have provided evidence for an association between valence and left/right modulated by handedness, which is predicted by the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) and also reflected in response times. We investigated whether such a response facilitation can also be observed wit...
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| author | Irmgard ede la Vega Julia eGraebe Leonie eHärtner Carolin eDudschig Barbara eKaup |
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| description | Recent studies have provided evidence for an association between valence and left/right modulated by handedness, which is predicted by the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) and also reflected in response times. We investigated whether such a response facilitation can also be observed with foot responses. Right-footed participants classified positive and negative words according to their valence by pressing a key with their left or right foot. A significant interaction between valence and foot only emerged in the by-items analysis. However, when dividing participants into two groups depending on the strength of their footedness, an interaction between valence and left/right was observed for strong right-footers, who responded faster with the right foot to positive words, and with the left foot to negative words. No interaction emerged for weak right-footers. The results strongly support the assumption that fluency lies at the core of the association between valence and left/right. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-792efe02248946fe9c1dcd16372db54b2022-12-21T19:16:43ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-03-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00292129820Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative wordsIrmgard ede la Vega0Julia eGraebe1Leonie eHärtner2Carolin eDudschig3Barbara eKaup4University of TuebingenUniversity of TuebingenUniversity of TuebingenUniversity of TuebingenUniversity of TuebingenRecent studies have provided evidence for an association between valence and left/right modulated by handedness, which is predicted by the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) and also reflected in response times. We investigated whether such a response facilitation can also be observed with foot responses. Right-footed participants classified positive and negative words according to their valence by pressing a key with their left or right foot. A significant interaction between valence and foot only emerged in the by-items analysis. However, when dividing participants into two groups depending on the strength of their footedness, an interaction between valence and left/right was observed for strong right-footers, who responded faster with the right foot to positive words, and with the left foot to negative words. No interaction emerged for weak right-footers. The results strongly support the assumption that fluency lies at the core of the association between valence and left/right.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00292/fullhandednessembodimentemotional valencefluencyBody-specificity hypothesisfootedness |
| spellingShingle | Irmgard ede la Vega Julia eGraebe Leonie eHärtner Carolin eDudschig Barbara eKaup Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words Frontiers in Psychology handedness embodiment emotional valence fluency Body-specificity hypothesis footedness |
| title | Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| title_full | Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| title_fullStr | Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| title_full_unstemmed | Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| title_short | Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| title_sort | starting off on the right foot strong right footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words |
| topic | handedness embodiment emotional valence fluency Body-specificity hypothesis footedness |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00292/full |
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