Running Head: LOVE, JEALOUSY AND EMBODIED REPRESENTATION 1 What does Love and Jealousy Taste Like? Embodied Representations of Love but Not Jealousy in Taste Sensations

Metaphorical expressions linking love and jealousy to tastes are common in normal language use and can create the assumption that they reflect embodied processes. Hence, we investigated if the phenomenological experiences of love and jealousy would be embodied in taste sensations of sweetness, sourness, and bitterness respectively. In Study 1, participants identified metaphors relating love to sweetness, and jealousy to sourness or bitterness. In Studies 2-4, participants induced to feel love rated a variety of tastants (sweet-sour candy, bitter-sweet chocolates, and distilled water) as sweeter compared to those who were induced to feel jealous, neutral, or happy. However, those induced to feel jealous did not differ on bitter and sour ratings. These findings imply that not all bodily metaphors have an embodied basis and highlight the importance of having a theoretical basis when claiming that a metaphor suggests some underlying embodiment.