Time for politics: The relationship between political attitude and implicit space-time mappings

Temporal Focus Hypothesis (TFH) proposes that people’s implicit space-time mappings are shaped by their attentional focus on temporal events. We used this hypothesis to examine predictions made by psychologists who suggest that the conservatives tend to endorse tradition and are more past-focused while liberals prefer progressive change and are more future-focused. In line with these predictions, we found that the conservatives, who showed more...