Choosing the dark path

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI:10.1075/msw.21026.rob

Michael D. Robinson, Roberta L. Irvin, Micheal R. Waters

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Abstract

Dark personalities are those that are malevolent and antagonistic. Underlying such tendencies may be some attraction to perceptual darkness, given that darkness has been symbolically linked to malevolence and evil throughout human history. In the present research (total N = 501), participants were asked to choose whether they prefer dark or light as abstract perceptual concepts. Preferences for darkness were non-normative as well as informative concerning interpersonal functioning. Specifically, dark-preferring individuals scored lower in agreeableness or higher in antagonism (Study 1) and they also exhibited lower levels of prosocial feeling and personality in the conduct of their daily lives (Study 2). An attraction to darkness therefore belies tendencies toward antagonism and callousness. In total, the research highlights the manner in which a simple preference judgment involving metaphor-rich stimuli can be used to gain key insights into the motivational substrates of social functioning.

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选择黑暗的道路

黑暗人格是指那些恶毒和敌对的人。这种倾向的背后可能是对感知黑暗的某种吸引力，因为在整个人类历史上，黑暗一直象征性地与恶意和邪恶联系在一起。在本研究中（总N = 501），参与者被要求选择他们喜欢黑暗还是光明作为抽象的感知概念。对黑暗的偏好是不规范的，也是关于人际功能的信息。具体而言，偏爱黑暗的个体在宜人性方面得分较低，在对抗性方面得分较高（研究1），他们在日常生活中也表现出较低水平的亲社会感觉和个性（研究2）。因此，对黑暗的吸引力掩盖了对抗和冷酷无情的倾向。总的来说，这项研究强调了一种简单的偏好判断，包括富含隐喻的刺激，可以用来获得对社会功能动机基础的关键见解。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.

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