Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-gq7q9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-21T17:26:20.822Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Understanding the psychology in psychological metaphors*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Michael Cicone
Affiliation:
Boston Veterans Administration Hospital
Howard Gardner
Affiliation:
Boston Veterans Administration Hospital
Ellen Winner
Affiliation:
Boston College

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes and dicussion
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

[*]

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (BNS 77-13099) and the National Institute of Education (G-78-0031). This paper was part of a presentation at the American Psychological Association, New York, 1979. We thank Dr Irwin Blumer for his assistance in arranging testing at the Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, Mass.; and Vievia Chrisman, Nancy Concannon, Eris Doorneweerd, Tom Jefferson and Betty Shelby for allowing us to work in their classrooms. Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner are also affiliated with Harvard Project Zero. Address for correspondence: Ellen Winner, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, U.S.A.

References

REFERENCES

Asch, S. & Nerlove, H. (1960). The development of double-function terms in children: an exploratory investigation. In Kaplan, B. & Wapner, S. (eds), Perspectives in psychological theory: essays in honor of Heinz Werner. New York: International Universities Press.Google Scholar
Finn, J. D. (1974). A general model for multivariate analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.Google Scholar
Gardner, H., Winner, E., Bechhofer, R. & Wolf, D. (1978). The development of figurative language. In Nelson, K. (ed.), Children's language. New York: Gardner Press.Google Scholar
Ortony, A. (1979). Beyond literal similarity. PsychRev 86. 161–80.Google Scholar
Ortony, A., Reynolds, R. & Arter, J. (1978). Metaphor: theoretical and empirical research PsychBull 85 919–42.Google Scholar
Piaget, J. (1929). The child's conception of the world. New York: Harcourt & Brace.Google Scholar
Winner, E., Rosenstiel, A. K. & Gardner, H. (1976). The development of metaphoric understanding. DevPsych 12. 289–97.Google Scholar