Loser! On the combined impact of emotional and person‐descriptive word meanings in communicative situations

Rohr, Lana; Rahman, Rasha Abdel

doi:10.1111/psyp.13067

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“…The words that threatened one's positive outlook or concept of actual state (negative words evaluated as congruent or positive ones as incongruent) were not differentiated on the brain response, as was the case in Watson et al (2007) study on self-concept with modulation noted on late positive potential. Of interest, LPP was shown to be especially modulated by personal-descriptive emotional word as opposed to other emotional and neutral ones (Rohr & Abdel Rahman 2018). In fact mood adjectives could be seen as perfect personal-decriptive stimuli.…”

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Feel Thine Own Self – Mood Congruency Evaluation of Emotional State Adjectives

Grzybowski

Wyczesany

Kaiser

2021

Journal of Psychophysiology

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Abstract. The goal of the study was to explore event-related potential (ERP) differences during the processing of emotional adjectives that were evaluated as congruent or incongruent with the current mood. We hypothesized that the first effects of congruence evaluation would be evidenced during the earliest stages of semantic analysis. Sixty mood adjectives were presented separately for 1,000 ms each during two sessions of mood induction. After each presentation, participants evaluated to what extent the word described their mood. The results pointed to incongruence marking of adjective’s meaning with current mood during early attention orientation and semantic access stages (the P150 component time window). This was followed by enhanced processing of congruent words at later stages. As a secondary goal the study also explored word valence effects and their relation to congruence evaluation. In this regard, no significant effects were observed on the ERPs; however, a negativity bias (enhanced responses to negative adjectives) was noted on the behavioral data (RTs), which could correspond to the small differences traced on the late positive potential.

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“…(2007) study on self-concept with modulation noted on late positive potential. Of interest, LPP was shown to be especially modulated by personal-descriptive emotional word as opposed to other emotional and neutral ones (Rohr & Abdel Rahman 2018). In fact mood adjectives could be seen as perfect personal-decriptive stimuli.…”

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confidence: 99%

Feel Thine Own Self – Mood Congruency Evaluation of Emotional State Adjectives

Grzybowski

Wyczesany

Kaiser

2021

Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…In particular, at the late positive potential (LPP), a centro-parietal component, which arises between 400 and 800 ms after stimulus onset, emotion modulations in word processing are often observed (Hofmann et al, 2009; Schacht and Sommer, 2009; Hinojosa et al, 2010; Kissler and Herbert, 2013). Here, person-descriptive words seem to elicit stronger LPP modulations than other emotional words, suggesting that inherent socio-evaluative significance affects late processing stages (Rohr and Abdel Rahman, 2018b).…”

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confidence: 93%

Emotion in Context: How Sender Predictability and Identity Affect Processing of Words as Imminent Personality Feedback

2019

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Recent findings suggest that communicative context affects the timing and magnitude of emotion effects in word processing. In particular, social attributions seem to be one important source of plasticity for the processing of affectively charged language. Here, we investigate the timing and magnitude of ERP responses toward positive, neutral, and negative trait adjectives during the anticipation of putative socio-evaluative feedback from different senders (human and computer) varying in predictability. In the first experiment, during word presentation participants could not anticipate whether a human or a randomly acting computer sender was about to give feedback. Here, a main effect of emotion was observed only on the late positive potential (LPP), showing larger amplitudes for positive compared to neutral adjectives. In the second study the same stimuli and set-up were used, but a block-wise presentation was realized, resulting in fixed and fully predictable sender identity. Feedback was supposedly given by an expert (psychotherapist), a layperson (unknown human), and again by a randomly acting computer. Main effects of emotion started with an increased P1 for negative adjectives, followed by effects at the N1 and early posterior negativity (EPN), showing both largest amplitudes for positive words, as well as for the LPP, where positive and negative words elicited larger amplitudes than neutral words. An interaction revealed that emotional LPP modulations occurred only for a human sender. Finally, regardless of content, anticipating human feedback led to larger P1 and P3 components, being highest for the putative expert. These findings demonstrate the malleability of emotional language processing by social contexts. When clear predictions can be made, our brains rapidly differentiate between emotional and neutral information, as well as between different senders. Attributed human presence affects emotional language processing already during feedback anticipation, in line with a selective gating of attentional resources via anticipatory social significance attributions. By contrast, emotion effects occur much later, when crucial social context information is still missing. These findings demonstrate the context-dependence of emotion effects in word processing and are particularly relevant since virtual communication with unknown senders, whose identity is inferred rather than perceived, has become reality for millions of people.

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“… Dale et al. , 2013 ; Knoeferle, 2016 ; Rohr and Abdel Rahman, 2018 ). Following this line of research, the present study uses electrophysiological measures to investigate whether processing in the semantic and syntactic domains in connected speech is affected already by minimal visuo-social information, that is, a mere picture of the speaker’s face.…”

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Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension

Hernández-Gutiérrez

Muñoz

Sánchez-García

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Natural use of language involves at least two individuals. Some studies have focused on the interaction between senders in communicative situations and how the knowledge about the speaker can bias language comprehension. However, the mere effect of a face as social context on language processing remains unknown. In the present study we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the semantic and morphosyntactic processing of speech in the presence of a photographic portrait of the speaker. In Experiment 1 we show that the N400, a component related to semantic comprehension, increased its amplitude when processed within this minimal social context compared to a scrambled face control condition. Hence, the semantic neural processing of speech is sensitive to the concomitant perception of a picture of the speaker’s face, even if irrelevant to the content of the sentences. Moreover, a late posterior-negativity (LPN) effect was found to the presentation of the speaker’s face compared to control stimuli. In contrast, in Experiment 2 we found that morphosyntactic processing, as reflected in LAN and P600 effects, is not notably affected by the presence of the speaker’s portrait. Overall, the present findings suggest that the mere presence of the speaker’s image seems to trigger a minimal communicative context, increasing processing resources for language comprehension at the semantic level.

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Loser! On the combined impact of emotional and person‐descriptive word meanings in communicative situations

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

Feel Thine Own Self – Mood Congruency Evaluation of Emotional State Adjectives

Feel Thine Own Self – Mood Congruency Evaluation of Emotional State Adjectives

Emotion in Context: How Sender Predictability and Identity Affect Processing of Words as Imminent Personality Feedback

Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension

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