Author, as appears in the article.: Marc Guasch Moix; Pilar Ferré Romeu
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
Abstract: The aim of the present study was to test the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011), according to which abstract words are more affectively loaded than concrete words. To this end, we focused on the acquisition of novel concepts by means of an intentional learning experiment in which participants had to learn a set of 40 novel concepts in Spanish (definitions) associated with novel word forms (pseudowords). Concreteness (concrete vs. abstract concepts) and emotionality (neutral vs. negative concepts) were orthogonally manipulated. Acquisition was assessed through a recognition task in which participants were asked to match the novel word forms with their definitions. Results showed that concrete concepts were acquired better than abstract concepts. Importantly, the concreteness advantage disappeared when the content of the concept was negative. Hence, emotional (negative) content facilitated the acquisition of abstract concepts, but not of concrete concepts, giving support to the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011).
Thematic Areas: Statistics and probability Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psicología Experimental and cognitive psychology Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat marc.guasch@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-6898-120X
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Psicologica. 42 (2): 177-191
APA: Marc Guasch Moix; Pilar Ferré Romeu (2021). Emotion and concreteness effects when learning novel concepts in the native language. Psicologica, 42(2), 177-191. DOI: 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
Article's DOI: 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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