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Oral Approach Avoidance

A Replication and Extension for Slavic and Turkic Phonations

Published Online:November 06, 2019https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000458

Abstract

Abstract. Words whose articulation resembles ingestion movements are preferred to words mimicking expectoration movements. This so-called in-out effect, suggesting that the oral movements caused by consonantal articulation automatically activate concordant motivational states, was already replicated in languages belonging to Germanic (e.g., German and English) and Italic (e.g., Portuguese) branches of the Indo-European family. However, it remains unknown whether such preference extends to the Indo-European branches whose writing system is based on the Cyrillic rather than Latin alphabet (e.g., Ukrainian), or whether it occurs in languages not belonging to the Indo-European family (e.g., Turkish). We replicated the in-out effect in two high-powered experiments (N = 274), with Ukrainian and Turkish native speakers, further supporting an embodied explanation for this intriguing preference.

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