Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer

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Table 1. Participant information.

Experiment	Number of participants	Participant source
1: Original	506	Mechanical Turk
2: Make Peace	272	Mechanical Turk
3: Firsthand Experiences	527	Mechanical Turk
4: Gender	113	UC San Diego undergraduates
5: Depression	211	Mechanical Turk

Table 2. Peace–guilt difference scores (he can make peace minus he will feel guilty) by metaphor condition and experiment.

		Exp 1	Exp 2	Exp 3	Exp 4	Exp 5
Battle	Peace	5.05	4.23	5.30	5.00	5.12
	Guilt	2.88	2.98	2.65	3.25	2.66
Journey	Peace	5.35	5.34	5.57	5.26	5.34
	Guilt	2.50	2.95	2.68	3.01	2.58

Figure 1. Difference scores (he will make peace with his situation minus he will feel guilty if he does not recover) by metaphor condition and experiment. Higher difference scores after reading the “journey” passage than the “battle” are consistent with the predicted metaphor framing effects.

Figure 2. Difference scores (he will make peace with his situation − he will feel guilty if he does not recover) by metaphor condition and participant gender.