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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Metaphor comprehension is well-studied, but spontaneous metaphor production is less understood.
  • Reasoning about analogies can foster a relational mindset, emphasizing abstract similarities.
  • This mindset may influence creative language use, including metaphors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if inducing a relational mindset increases the tendency to produce metaphors.
  • To explore the effect of analogy type (cross-domain vs. within-domain) on metaphor production.
  • To examine how topic complexity (number of features) interacts with relational mindset to influence metaphor use.

Main Methods:

  • Participants solved either cross-domain (high relational mindset) or within-domain (control) analogies.
  • Participants summarized topics presented with one or three features.
  • Metaphorical language use was quantified in the summary phrases.

Main Results:

  • Metaphorical language use increased with the number of topic features.
  • The high relational mindset condition showed a particularly high frequency of metaphor use.
  • This suggests that relational mindset induction facilitates abstract comparisons and creative language.

Conclusions:

  • Inducing a relational mindset enhances spontaneous metaphor production.
  • Focusing on abstract similarities through analogy reasoning promotes creative language.
  • Topic complexity and relational mindset interact to influence metaphorical expression.