Decid­ing which part of this arti­cle on how we inter­nalise metaphor­i­cal con­cepts to quote was prov­ing trou­ble­some, then David came along with this take on the arti­cle:

Though Drake Bennet’s piece feels a lit­tle shal­low — like he’s point­ing to this really inter­est­ing thing and rather than explain it is merely puz­zling at it beside you — he does a good job gath­er­ing a num­ber of recent stud­ies demon­strat­ing the link between metaphor­i­cal and real con­cepts. You’ve prob­a­bly heard at least one of these stud­ies — peo­ple hold­ing warm things think the peo­ple around them are nicer, peo­ple using a heav­ier clip­board think more seri­ously about the sur­vey they’re fill­ing out — but the idea that these results are not one-off flukes but the foun­da­tion of abstrac­tion is eye-opening.

It’s also worth not­ing the side­bar to that arti­cle, which addresses the inverse pos­si­bil­ity: that we sub­con­sciously phys­i­cal­ize the metaphors we know.