For Wednesday 12/1, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website:

Boroditsky, Lera. 2oo1. Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers’ Conceptions of Time. Cognitive Psychology 43: 1-22.

Note:  In pgs. 8-18 of the article, the author describes three different psychological experiments that she conducted with her colleagues.  For each experiment, I advise that you skip the ‘Method’ section, and move straight ahead to the ‘Results’ and ‘Discussion’ section.  The ‘Method’ sections contain some rather technical discussion about experimental design, which is not necessary for you to comprehend the article.  Also, don’t worry too much about the statistics that appear in the ‘Results’ sections–just try to get an overall picture of how the experiments turned out.