Small means immoral? The impact of spatial size metaphor on moral judgment

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324991
• Publication Date: 2025-05-27T17:37:37Z
• Authors: Weirui Xiong; Jiaxin Wang; Jiayi Li
• Keywords: Moral behavior; Spatial Cognition

This study aims to explore the unconscious relationship between moral concepts and spatial dimension of size, as well examine whether unknown size a room influences participants’ cognitive judgments within framework embodied cognition. Study 1 2 investigate biases. Specifically, participants exhibited faster response times when judging presented in large fonts sizes immoral small sizes, compared were sizes. 3 employed dilemma task, revealing that placed evaluated characters story more morally under embodiment effect than those room. Collectively, these three studies demonstrate psychological individuals’ abstract