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: marc.guasch@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-6898-120X 0000-0002-3192-0040

Record's date: 2023-02-23

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: http://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