文化规范下身高–权力隐喻的具身认知
Embodied Cognition of the Height-Power Metaphor under Cultural Norms
DOI: 10.12677/ap.2026.1610494, PDF,    科研立项经费支持
作者: 黄雅婷, 袁梦琳：江西中医药大学人文学院，江西 南昌；袁富强*：江西中医药大学研究生院，江西 南昌
关键词: 具身认知；概念隐喻；身高–权力隐喻；文化规范；权力认知；Embodied Cognition； Conceptual Metaphor； Height-Power Metaphor； Cultural Norms； Power Cognition
摘要: 目的：梳理身高、垂直空间与权力认知的联系，厘清文化规范的作用及证据边界。方法：采用叙述性综述，区分权力、地位与支配性，以及语言习惯、社会期待和内化价值，按研究的操纵与测量对象评述相关证据。结果：已有研究支持权力语义与垂直位置的联结，并发现身高与领导印象、职业结果相关；地位线索和主观权力感也可能影响身体尺度估计。但上述指标不能互换，现有证据尚不足以排除极性对应、进化解释与社会刻板印象，也未确立文化规范强化共同空间表征的完整因果链。结论：身高–权力隐喻可作为整合身体经验与社会意义的理论框架。未来需通过独立操纵反应编码、身体高度、权力线索与规范信息的实验，比较各机制的差异化预测，并检验其适用边界。
Abstract: Objective: To examine the relationships among height, vertical space, and power cognition, and clarify the role of cultural norms and the boundaries of existing evidence. Methods: This narrative review distinguishes power, status, and dominance, as well as linguistic habits, social expectations, and internalized values. Studies are evaluated according to their manipulations and measured outcomes. Results: Existing research supports associations between power-related meanings and vertical positions, and links height to leadership impressions and career outcomes. Status cues and subjective power may also affect estimates of bodily size. These measures are not interchangeable. Current evidence does not adequately rule out polarity correspondence, evolutionary accounts, or social stereotypes, nor does it establish a complete causal pathway through which cultural norms strengthen a shared spatial representation. Conclusions: The height-power metaphor provides a framework for integrating bodily experience with social meaning. Future experiments should independently manipulate response coding, bodily height, power cues, and normative information, compare the competing mechanisms’ distinct predictions, and establish the limits of their applicability.
文章引用：黄雅婷, 袁梦琳, 袁富强 (2026). 文化规范下身高–权力隐喻的具身认知. 心理学进展, 16(10), 292-301. https://doi.org/10.12677/ap.2026.1610494

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