We Are Slaves To Metaphor, Episode 47: Evil Makes The World Look Dark

“In the latest example of the study of ’embodied cognition’ – the notion that metaphors don’t just help us express abstract ideas but can also shape basic perception – researchers had 40 students recall and describe either an ethical or unethical deed from their past. … [P]articipants in the unethical condition judged the room to be darker than did participants in the ethical condition.”