When Figurative Language Goes off the Rails and under the Bus: Fluid Intelligence, Openness to Experience, and the Production of Poor Metaphors.

J Intell · 2021 · PMC7838778 · PMID 33466268

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The effects of Gf were significant for the Gross Food (β = −0.28 [−0.50, −0.06], p = 0.011) and marginally significant for the Terrible Movie (β = −0.36 [−0.75, 0.03], p = 0.067) metaphors but not the Boring Class (−0.08 [−0.44, 0.27], p = 0.644).

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