The Body in Religion: The Spatial Mapping of Valence in Tibetan Practitioners of Bön.
Cognitive Science April 1, 2019 Heng Li, Yu Cao 13 citations
According to the Body-Specificity Hypothesis (BSH), people implicitly associate positive ideas with the side of space on which they are able to act more fluently with their dominant hand. Though this hypothesis has been rigorously tested across a variety of populations and tasks, the studies thus far have only been conducted in linguistic and cultural communities which favor the right over the...