Effects of transient, mild mood states on semantic memory organization and use: an event-related potential investigation in humans

Federmeier, Kara D.; Kirson, Donald; Moreno, Eva M.; Kutas, Marta

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“…For the neutral mood condition, the same N400 pattern as in the Federmeier et al study [16] was found. Within-category violations were modulated by emotional state: for the happy mood condition, a decrease in N400 effect for within-category violations was found compared to the neutral mood condition.…”

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“…So along the driveway they planted rows of palms/pines/tulips." In the first study [16], pictures from the International Affective Picture System [17] were used to induce a positive or a neutral mood.…”

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“…The studies reported above show that emotional state immediately affects semantic processing. In particular, the processing of different kinds of semantic mismatches-an unexpected word in the presence of a highly expected word [15], a within-or between-category violation [16] [18], an unexpected scenario based on world knowledge [19]-gave rise to language by emotion interactions. The results regarding the effect of mood on the processing of syntactic mismatches are less clear.…”

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Effects of Emotional State on Processing Conceptual Mismatches: ERPs in a Picture-Sentence Matching Task

Goertz

Vissers²,

Verhees³

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Event-related potential (ERP) studies demonstrated that emotional state immediately affects the processing of different linguistic mismatches (e.g., semantic and syntactic mismatches) in sentences. Furthermore, mood has been shown to impact discourse processing. In these studies, a strong expectancy was evoked by a linguistic context. In the present study, a strong expectancy was induced by a visual (non-linguistic) context paired with a sentence. A spatial array was followed by a sentence that matched (-The square stands in front of the circle) or mismatched the picture (intra-dimensional mismatch: -The square stands behind the circle; extra-dimensional mismatch: -The square stands above the circle). The main question was whether mood effects on the processing of visually induced expectancies are similar or different from mood effects on the processing of linguistically induced expectancies. To this aim, we presented conceptual (mis)matches that differed in saliency: intra-dimensional vs. extra-dimensional mismatches which are both reported to elicit an N2b/N400 and P600, reflecting reanalysis. EEG was recorded while participants read for comprehension. Mood (happy vs. sad) was effectively induced by film clips. Neither for N2b/N400 nor for P600, an interaction between mood and match was observed. Thus, in contrast with studies investigating the effects of pure linguistic mismatches (linguistic context paired with unexpected lexical item), mood did not modulate the processing of conceptual mismatches. However, a main effect of match revealed different ERP patterns for the two mismatches. While an increase in N2b/ N400 occurred for the intra-dimensional and extra-dimensional mismatches, a P600 only occurred to the extra-dimensional (more salient) mismatches.

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Effects of Emotional State on Processing Conceptual Mismatches: ERPs in a Picture-Sentence Matching Task

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“…For example, the emotional states of participants have been shown to modulate the processing of sentences: where positive mood leads to increased semantic activation, negative mood results in semantic inhibition (Federmeier, Kirson, Moreno, & Kutas, 2001;. Moodcongruency effects were also observed, suggesting that individuals preferentially process emotional information that is congruent with their current mood state (e.g., Bower, 1981;Mayer, McCormick, & Strong, 1995;Rusting, 1998).…”

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Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

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During social communication, words and sentences play a critical role in the expression of emotional meaning. The Minho Affective Sentences (MAS) were developed to respond to the lack of a standardized sentence battery with normative affective ratings: 192 neutral, positive, and negative declarative sentences were strictly controlled for psycholinguistic variables such as numbers of words and letters and per-million word frequency. The sentences were designed to represent examples of each of the five basic emotions (anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and happiness) and of neutral situations. These sentences were presented to 536 participants who rated the stimuli using both dimensional and categorical measures of emotions. Sex differences were also explored. Additionally, we probed how personality, empathy, and mood from a subset of 40 participants modulated the affective ratings. Our results confirmed that the MAS affective norms are valid measures to guide the selection of stimuli for experimental studies of emotion. The combination of dimensional and categorical ratings provided a more finegrained characterization of the affective properties of the sentences. Moreover, the affective ratings of positive and negative sentences were not only modulated by participants' sex, but also by individual differences in empathy and mood state. Together, our results indicate that, in their quest to reveal the neurofunctional underpinnings of verbal emotional processing, researchers should consider not only the role of sex, but also of interindividual differences in empathy and mood states, in responses to the emotional meaning of sentences.

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“…However, individuals with mild positive emotion can exhibit different behavior from those with extremely positive emotion (Brief, Butcher, & Roberson, 1995;Federmeier, Kirson, Moreno, & Kutas, 2001;Mitchell & Phillips, 2007;Roehm & Roehm, 2005). Individuals with mild positive emotion often engage more in trying a diversity of products (variety seeking behavior) than those with neutral or extreme positive emotion (Menon & Kahn, 1995;Roehm & Roehm, 2005).…”

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The Happiness Premium: The Impact of Emotion on Individuals’ Willingness to Pay in Online Auctions

Yuan

Dennis

2016

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Abstract:Much research across various disciplines has studied individuals' bidding behavior in online auctions. Emotion is an important factor affecting individual behavior, but we know little about its effects in online auctions. We conducted a lab experiment to investigate the impact of positive emotion on individuals' willingness to pay in online auctions. We found that individuals with positive emotions bid more than those with neutral emotions; that is, they paid a "happiness premium" of about 10 percent. The effect size was medium (Cohen's d = 0.51). This study contributes to electronic commerce literature by identifying emotion as an important factor affecting online auction behavior. The findings also provide guidance to auction website design: websites can increase bid amounts by inducing positive emotions in potential customers.

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Effects of transient, mild mood states on semantic memory organization and use: an event-related potential investigation in humans

Cited by 100 publications

References 11 publications

Effects of Emotional State on Processing Conceptual Mismatches: ERPs in a Picture-Sentence Matching Task

Effects of Emotional State on Processing Conceptual Mismatches: ERPs in a Picture-Sentence Matching Task

Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

The Happiness Premium: The Impact of Emotion on Individuals’ Willingness to Pay in Online Auctions

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