Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

Topolinski, Sascha; Deutsch, Roland

doi:10.1037/a0028879

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“…participants' performance was better during congruent than incongruent trials, while under negative mood priming effects tended to be reduced. This pattern confirms prior findings (Hänze & Hesse, 1993;Storbeck & Clore, 2008;Topolinski & Deutsch, 2013), and is in line with predictions stemming from theoretical views such as the affect-as-information theory (Schwarz, 2012). Interestingly, the word category where such effects were not found at all was symptom words, which produced strong priming effects in all conditions.…”

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Influences of mood on information processing styles in high and low symptom reporters

Constantinou¹,

Bogaerts²,

Diest³

et al. 2015

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report • volume 3(4), 5 original article background Negative mood, which has been strongly linked to the presence of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), is also suggested to modulate the way information is processed (analytic vs. schematic processing style). The present study investigated whether negative mood influences the information processing style differentially in people reporting frequent MUS in daily life. participants and procedure Forty female participants (22 low, 18 high habitual symptom reporters) completed a semantic priming task, as an index of schematic processing, after positive and after negative mood induction in a counterbalanced order. The priming task consisted of neutral or unpleasant body-related and body-unrelated words to assess the specificity of processing style shifts. results The analyses indicated a non-significant tendency for negative mood to increase priming effects compared to positive mood for the high habitual symptom reporters, while the opposite pattern was found for the low symptom reporters. This differential effect of mood was only seen for neutral body-related words. conclusions The current findings suggest that negative mood can trigger schematic processes assumed to be crucial for the emergence of MUS, which may explain the profound link between unpleasantness and elevated symptom reporting in high symptom reporters.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Influences of mood on information processing styles in high and low symptom reporters

Constantinou¹,

Bogaerts²,

Diest³

et al. 2015

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“…The negatively valenced object chemicals might have induced a brief negative affect (cf., Topolinski & Deutsch, 2012, 2013) that rendered participants more systematic and less spontaneous in their ratings. However, names for chemicals were liked more than names for lemonades, which renders a negative mood induction rather unlikely.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Matching between oral inward–outward movements of object names and oral movements associated with denoted objects

Topolinski

Boecker

Erle

et al. 2015

Cognition and Emotion

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In eight experiments, we explored matching effects between oral approach-avoidance movements triggered by word articulation and meaning of the objects the words denoted. Participants (total N = 1264) rated their liking for words that featured consonantal muscle stricture spots either wandering inwards (e.g., BODIKA, resembling ingestion movements) or outwards (e.g., KODIBA, resembling expectoration movements). These words were labelled as names for various objects. For objects the use of which entails ingestive oral actions (lemonade and mouthwash) inward words were preferred over outward words. For objects that trigger expectorative oral actions (toxical chemical, pill, and bubble gum) this preference was attenuated or even reversed (outward words were liked more than inward). Valence of the denoted object did not play a role in these modulations. Thus, the sagittal direction of mouth movements during silent reading meaningfully interacted with direction of oral actions associated with the denoted objects.

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“…Given that there are more positive words than negative words, more affective priming could occur for positive words than for negative words. Thus, positive words may elicit greater priming than neutral and negative words because (a) positive words are slightly more common (Warriner et al, 2013), and/or (b) positive words induce larger priming effects (Topolinski & Deutsch, 2013). That is, automatic vigilance could be due to affective priming, as positive words could produce more frequent or larger priming effects than negative words.…”

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Emotion and language: Valence and arousal affect word recognition.

Kuperman¹,

Estes²,

Brysbaert³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Emotion influences most aspects of cognition and behavior, but emotional factors are conspicuously absent from current models of word recognition. The influence of emotion on word recognition has mostly been reported in prior studies on the automatic vigilance for negative stimuli, but the precise nature of this relationship is unclear. Various models of automatic vigilance have claimed that the effect of valence on response times is categorical, an inverted-U, or interactive with arousal. The present study used a sample of 12,658 words, and included many lexical and semantic control factors, to determine the precise nature of the effects of arousal and valence on word recognition. Converging empirical patterns observed in word-level and trial-level data from lexical decision and naming indicate that valence and arousal exert independent monotonic effects: Negative words are recognized more slowly than positive words, and arousing words are recognized more slowly than calming words. Valence explained about 2% of the variance in word recognition latencies, whereas the effect of arousal was smaller. Valence and arousal do not interact, but both interact with word frequency, such that valence and arousal exert larger effects among low-frequency words than among high-frequency words. These results necessitate a new model of affective word processing whereby the degree of negativity monotonically and independently predicts the speed of responding. This research also demonstrates that incorporating emotional factors, especially valence, improves the performance of models of word recognition.

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Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

Cited by 37 publications

References 135 publications

Influences of mood on information processing styles in high and low symptom reporters

Influences of mood on information processing styles in high and low symptom reporters

Matching between oral inward–outward movements of object names and oral movements associated with denoted objects

Emotion and language: Valence and arousal affect word recognition.

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