Living in an Asymmetrical World

There has recently been a renewed interest in the role of spatial dimensions in social cognition, and how vertical and horizontal trajectories are used to represent social concepts such as power, agency, aggression, and dominance.

Anne Maass is Professor of Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. Caterina Suitner is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. Jean-Pierre Deconchy is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Paris X Nanterre, France.

Introduction: Spatial Bias Under a Cross-Cultural Perspective  1. The Problems, its Genesis  2. The Orientation of the Field of Vision in Mother-Tongue Arabic Children  3. Right-Left Orientation and Reading French  4. Recent Developments: Theoretical Approaches and Extensions to the Social Domain  5. Research Practices Evolving Over Time