A prototype analysis of the French category “émotion”

Niedenthal, Paula M.; Auxiette, Catherine; Nugier, Armelle; Dalle, Nathalie; Bonin, Patrick; Fayol, Michel

doi:10.1080/02699930341000086

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“…Properties were selected from vision, taste, motor actions and audition. For the remaining associations, 96 French nouns (i.e., 48 negative concepts and 48 positive concepts) were selected from validated words lists (Messina, Morais, & Cantraine, 1989;Niedenthal, Auxiette, Nugier, Dalle, Bonin, & Fayol, 2004;Syssau & Font, 2005). Words that had high emotionality scores as well as either a highly negative score or a highly positive valence score were selected for use in the study.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Switching Between Sensory and Affective SystemsIncurs Processing Costs

Vermeulen¹,

Niedenthal²,

Luminet³

2007

Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal

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Recent models of the conceptual system hold that concepts are grounded in simulations of actual experiences with instances of those concepts in sensory-motor systems (e.g., Barsalou, 1999Barsalou, , 2003Solomon & Barsalou, 2001). Studies supportive of such a view have shown that verifying a property of a concept in one modality, and then switching to verify a property of a different concept in a different modality generates temporal processing costs similar to the cost of switching modalities in perception. In addition to non-emotional concepts, the present experiment investigated switching costs in verifying properties of positive and negative (emotional) concepts. Properties of emotional concepts were taken from vision, audition, and the affective system. Parallel to switching costs in neutral concepts, the study showed that for positive and negative concepts, verifying properties from different modalities produced processing costs such that reaction times were longer and error rates were higher. Importantly, this effect was observed when switching from the affective system to sensory modalities, and vice-versa. These results support the embodied cognition view of emotion in humans.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Switching Between Sensory and Affective SystemsIncurs Processing Costs

Vermeulen¹,

Niedenthal²,

Luminet³

2007

Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal

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“…Such rating studies have been reported for pictures (Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2008), sounds (Bradley & Lang, 1999b), and words in several languages, including English (Bradley & Lang, 1999a;Brown & Ure, 1969;Stevenson, Mikels, & James, 2007), Spanish (Redondo, Fraga, Padrón, & Comesaña, 2007), French (Bertels, Kolinski, & Morais, 2009;Bonin et al, 2003;Corson & Quistrebert, 2000;Messina, Moré, & Cantraine, 1989;Niedenthal et al, 2004;Syssau & Font, 2005 ), German (Grühn & Smith, 2008;Hager & Hasselhorn, 1994;Lahl, Göritz, Pietrowsky, & Rosenberg, 2009;Võ et al, 2009), and Finish (Eilola & Havelka, 2010). In Dutch, a study by Hermans and De Houwer (1994) provided valence ratings and subjective familiarity ratings for 740 Dutch words, of which 370 were adjectives referring to personality traits and 370 were nouns.…”

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Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words

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This article presents norms of valence/pleasantness, activity/arousal, power/dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words, mainly nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. The norms are based on ratings with a 7-point Likert scale by independent groups of students from two Belgian (Ghent and Leuven) and two Dutch (Rotterdam and Leiden-Amsterdam) samples. For each variable, we obtained high split-half reliabilities within each sample and high correlations between samples. In addition, the valence ratings of a previous, more limited study (Hermans & De Houwer, Psychologica Belgica, 34:115-139, 1994) correlated highly with those of the present study. Therefore, the new norms are a valuable source of information for affective research in the Dutch language.

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“…Research by Niedenthal and her colleagues [10,16,30,33,34] bear on this matter. Accordingly, emotions could lead individuals to reorganize temporarily their conceptual space in function of the common evoked emotion.…”

Section: Emotional Categorization: Individual Differences and Lateralmentioning

confidence: 99%