Digital Connection, Real Bonding: Brief Online Chats Boost Interpersonal Closeness regardless of the conversational topic
Heliyon,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(4), P. e42526 - e42526
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
This
study
explores
how
the
quality
of
brief
dyadic
written
exchanges
(lasting
under
5
min)
on
a
virtual
platform
and
nature
conversational
topic
(abstract
or
concrete),
influences
physical,
interpersonal,
psychological
closeness
between
interlocutors.
In
first
experiment,
participants
engaged
in
conversations
either
an
abstract
concrete
two
conditions:
(i)
interactive
condition,
where
exchanged
messages
with
another
person,
(ii)
non-interactive
wrote
independently
same
topic,
aware
that
person
was
simultaneously
doing
same.
Results
indicated
condition
reported
feeling
significantly
closer
to
their
interlocutor
than
those
condition.
addition,
greater
perceived
pleasantness,
intimacy,
importance
other
person's
contribution
conversation
were
associated
increased
feelings
closeness.
However,
inconclusive
evidence
obtained
regarding
interaction
abstractness
during
fostering
The
second
experiment
focused
only
we
examined
interpersonal
dynamics
across
different
subcategories
(e.g.,
philosophical/spiritual,
emotional,
social,
physical/spatio-temporal)
topics
tools,
animals,
food).
results
replicated,
reinforcing
idea
exchange-rather
itself-plays
crucial
role
individuals.
Language: Английский
The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts
Nature Reviews Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 8, 2025
Language: Английский
Quantifying the Multidimensionality of Abstract Concepts: An Italian Database
Brain Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(3), P. 222 - 222
Published: Feb. 21, 2025
Background:
The
embodied
cognition
approach,
as
applied
to
concrete
knowledge,
is
centred
on
the
role
of
perceptual
and
motor
aspects
experience.
To
extend
framework
abstract
some
studies
have
suggested
that
further
dimensions,
such
affective
or
social
experiences,
are
relevant
for
semantic
representations
concepts.
objective
this
study
develop
a
measure
can
quantitatively
capture
multidimensional
nature
Methods:
We
used
dimension-rating
methods,
known
be
suitable,
account
concepts,
new
database
964
Italian
words,
rated
by
542
participants.
Besides
classical
psycholinguistic
variables
(i.e.,
concreteness,
imageability,
familiarity,
age
acquisition,
diversity)
norms
valence,
arousal),
we
collected
ratings
selected
dimensions
characterizing
i.e.,
introspective,
mental
state,
quantitative,
spatial,
social,
moral,
theoretical,
economic
dimensions.
exclusivity
was
incorporated
quantify
number
respective
relevance,
each
concept.
Concepts
with
high
value
rely
only
one/a
few
dimension/s
rating
scale.
Results:
A
representation
characterized
most
two
robust
major
clusters.
first
dense
intersections
among
moral
dimensions;
second,
less
interconnected,
cluster
revolved
around
Quantitative,
concepts
obtained
higher
values.
Conclusions:
present
contributes
investigation
organization
words
supports
controlled
selection
definition
stimuli
clinical
research
settings.
Language: Английский
Contrasting the organization of concrete and abstract word meanings
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 3, 2025
Language: Английский
Technological Concepts: Object and Tool of Knowledge Outsourcing at Different Ages
Topoi,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 13, 2025
Language: Английский
Words as Social Tools (WAT): a reprise
Physics of Life Reviews,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
52, P. 109 - 128
Published: Dec. 19, 2024
Language: Английский
Interoceptive grounding of conceptual knowledge: new insight from an interoceptive-exteroceptive categorization task of concepts
Laura Barca,
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Salvatore M.Diana,
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Daniela Coutiño Duarte
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et al.
Published: July 27, 2024
The
role
of
interoception,
the
perception
internal
bodily
signals,
in
shaping
our
understanding
concepts
remains
an
intriguing
and
understudied
area
research.
Here,
we
investigate
interoceptive
foundation
conceptual
representation,
particularly
for
abstract
compared
to
concrete
ones.
Employing
a
mouse-tracking
paradigm,
participants
categorized
as
(i.e.,
experienced
through
sensations)
or
exteroceptive
five
perceptual
senses),
with
varying
their
degree
grounding
(emotional,
philosophical,
natural,
artifact).
dimension
was
crucial
abstract-emotional
concepts,
revealed
by
lower
likelihood
misclassifying
them
than
abstract-philosophical
Movement
trajectories
showed
implicit
activation
features
during
categorization
concrete-natural
thus
beyond
To
account
individual
differences
attending
performed
cardioception
task
(heartbeat
counting).
Individuals
greater
sensitivity
heartbeat
were
faster
categorization,
when
exteroceptively
categorizing
concepts.
Taken
together,
findings
emphasize
multifaceted
nature
knowledge,
encompassing
dimensions
alongside
others.
Language: Английский