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Mixing Memory: Temporal Attitudes

Since approach and avoidance are both directional (egocentrically), it stands to reason that they might also influence our interpretations of ambiguous temporal statements like Boroditsky's "Next Wednesday's meeting." As it turns out, they do! If, in place of "meeting," you ... it had moved to Friday. This sort of thing must drive people who are trying to come up with theories of reference that can account for such statements batty! 1 For example, Boroditsky, L. (2000).