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Clé de citation BibTeX: Gentner1985
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Gentner, D., & Grudin, J. (1985). The evolution of mental metaphors in psychology: a 90-year retrospective. American Psychologist, 40(2), pp. 181–192.
Ajoutée par: Lynda Taabane 2007-12-19 11:44:01
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Résumé
ABSTRACT." It seems plausible that the conception
of the mind has evolved over the first hundred years
of psychology in America. In this research, we studied
this evolution'by tracing changes in the kinds of
metaphors used by psychologists to describe mental
phenomena. A corpus of metaphors from 1894 to the
present was collected and examined. The corpus
consisted of all metaphors for mental phenomena
used in the first issue of Psychological Review in
each decade, beginning with the inception of the
journal in 1894 and continuing with 1905, 1915,
and so on through 1975. These nine issues yielded
265 mental metaphors, which were categorized according
to the type of analogical domain from which
the comparison was drawn.
The chief finding was that the nature of the
mental metaphors changed over time. Spatial metaphors
and animate-being metaphors predominated
in the early stages, then declined in favor of systems
metaphors, often taken from mathematics and the
physical sciences. A secondary finding was that the
numbers of mental metaphors varied. Metaphors for
mental phenomena were more prevalent in the early
and late stages of the corpus than in the middle
stages (1935 to 1955). These patterns are interpreted
in terms of conceptual evolution in psychologists"
models of the mind.
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