The evaluation of mental metaphors in psychology. A 90- year retrospective.

Author(s)
Gentner, D. Grudin, J.
Abstract

Historical changes in the metaphors used by American psychologists to describe mental processes are examined. The aim is to use changes in metaphoric language to trace changes in the models of the mind that psychologists have held.A corpus of metaphors from 1894 to the present was collected and examined.

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B 27067 fo /01 /83.2 /
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From: American Psychologist, 40 (1985- 02)No. 2, p. 181- 192, 52 ref.

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