Interplay of emotional valence and concreteness in word processing: An event-related potential study with verbs

Palazova, Marina; Sommer, Werner; Schacht, Annekathrin

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2013.02.008

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“…Also, the ratings in anger, sadness, fear, and disgust showed highly significant correlations with concreteness scores, although no significant correlations were found between happiness scores and ratings in concreteness. These findings highlight the importance of taking into consideration the modulatory role of concreteness in the processing of emotional words, which has previously been found to be of particular relevance in the case of abstract concepts (Kousta et al, 2011;Palazova et al, 2013;Yao & Wang, 2014).…”

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“…In these sense, it has been reported that emotional content may exert a greater influence in the processing of abstract than of concrete words (Hinojosa, Albert, López-Martín, & Carretié, 2014;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, & Del Campo, 2011;Palazova, Sommer, & Schacht, 2013;Vigliocco et al, 2014). Thus, given the importance of this variable, participants rated every word in the concreteness dimension.…”

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Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions

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In the present study, we introduce affective norms for a new set of Spanish words, the Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS), that were scored on two emotional dimensions (valence and arousal) and on five discrete emotional categories (happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust), as well as on concreteness, by 660 Spanish native speakers. Measures of several objective psycholinguistic variables-grammatical class, word frequency, number of letters, and number of syllables-for the words are also included. We observed high split-half reliabilities for every emotional variable and a strong quadratic relationship between valence and arousal. Additional analyses revealed several associations between the affective dimensions and discrete emotions, as well as with some psycholinguistic variables. This new corpus complements and extends prior databases in Spanish and allows for designing new experiments investigating the influence of affective content in language processing under both dimensional and discrete theoretical conceptions of emotion. These norms can be downloaded as supplemental materials for this article from www.dropbox.com/s/o6dpw3irk6utfhy/ Hinojosa%20et%20al_Supplementary%20materials.xlsx?dl=0.

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“…Although research projects aimed at studying the effects of concreteness and the affective dimensions on word processing have traditionally run in different directions, in recent years interest has been growing in studying the relationship between the two. Because of the potential interaction between concreteness and the affective variables, recent studies have suggested that concreteness influences the effect of emotional meaning on word processing (Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Palazova et al, 2013;Sheikh & Titone, 2013;Tse & Altarriba, 2009;Wang & Yao, 2012;Yao & Wang, 2013. Our findings provide an instrument that can facilitate experimental research into the effects on word processing and memory of both types of variables simultaneously, as well as their potential overlap.…”

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“…Accumulating evidence has indicated that concreteness is a crucial variable in the processing of emotional words and is associated with affective variables (i.e., valence and arousal; Hinojosa et al, 2016;Kaltwasser, Ries, Sommer, Knight, & Willems, 2013;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kousta et al, 2011;Palazova, Sommer, & Schacht, 2013;Sheikh & Titone, 2013;Tse & Altarriba, 2009;Vigliocco et al, 2014;Yao & Wang, 2013). Altarriba, Bauer, and Benvenuto (1999) were the first to note the relationship between the two, proposing that abstract words more likely refer directly to emotional states.…”

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Norms of valence, arousal, concreteness, familiarity, imageability, and context availability for 1,100 Chinese words

Zhao

Zhang

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Behav Res

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In the present study, we collected valence, arousal, concreteness, familiarity, imageability, and context availability ratings for a total of 1,100 Chinese words. The ratings for all variables were collected with 9-point Likert scales. We tested the reliability of the present database by comparing it to the extant Chinese Affective Word System, and performed splithalf correlations for all six variables. We then evaluated the relationships between all variables. Regarding the affective variables, we found a typical quadratic relation between valence and arousal, in line with previous findings. Likewise, significant correlations were found between the semantic variables. Importantly, we explored the relationships between ratings for the affective variables (i.e., valence and arousal) and concreteness ratings, suggesting that valence and arousal ratings can predict concreteness ratings. This database of affective norms will be a valuable source of information for emotion research that makes use of Chinese words, and will enable researchers to use highly controlled Chinese verbal stimuli to more reliably investigate the relation between cognition and emotion.

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“…Concreteness of verbal stimuli was found to be an important factor that modulates Event Related Potential (ERP) correlates of emotional word processing (c.f. Barber et al 2013;Kanske and Kotz 2007;Palazova et al 2013). In other words, concrete stimuli are processed quite different than abstract ones in terms of brain responses to them.…”

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Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

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2017

Curr Psychol

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This paper presents data concerning the impact of word connotations differing in valence and origin on ambiguous decisions. The origin factor describes engagement of automatic vs. controlled processing mechanisms in formation of an emotional reaction to the stimuli (words, in this case). Other potentially important factors such as arousal, concreteness, frequency of appearance in language and length were matched across conditions. The task was introduced as intuition related and participants were supposed to guess which one of two hexagrams, introduced as pictorial symbols from an East Asian language, best suited the meaning of certain words. The expectation was that the origin of a word's affective connotations would influence decision making speed, and reaction latencies would be longer for reflectively originated words compared to automatically originated ones. The rationale for such a hypothesis is that reflective origins of emotional reactions are part of rational, multi-criteria processing, representing more complex mechanisms than automatic origins of emotional reactions based on experiential, automatic appraisals, representing less complex processing. For reflectively originated words, reaction latencies for word-sign matching tasks were longer than for automatically originated ones. No valence effects were found. Also no effects of the manipulations were found for time spent look at the words or location (top or bottom) of the chosen response in an ambiguous word-symbol matching task. This suggests that, indeed, origin influences only the type of processing that subsequently occurs, namely whether choices reflected systematic or heuristic processing.

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Interplay of emotional valence and concreteness in word processing: An event-related potential study with verbs

Cited by 82 publications

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Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions

Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions

Norms of valence, arousal, concreteness, familiarity, imageability, and context availability for 1,100 Chinese words

Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

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