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Are Your Values Right Or Left? The Answer Is More Literal Than You Think
April 14, 2011 by NewsBot
Up equals good, happy, optimistic; down the opposite. Right is honest and trustworthy. Left, not so much. That's what language and culture tell us. "We use mental metaphors to structure our thinking about abstract things," says psychologist Daniel Casasanto, "One of those metaphors is space." But we don't all think right is right, Casasanto has found...


