Author, as appears in the article.: Haro, Juan; Calvillo, Rocio; Poch, Claudia; Antonio Hinojosa, Jose; Ferre, Pilar
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Rodriguez, Juan
Keywords: Language Laden words Humans Emotions valence typicality spanish norms lexical decision age acquisition
Abstract: Emotional words differ in how they acquire their emotional charge. There is a relevant distinction between emotion-label words (those that directly name an emotion, e.g., "joy" or "sadness") and emotion-laden words (those that do not name an emotion, but can provoke it, e.g., "party" or "death"). In this work, we focused on emotion-label words. These words vary in their emotional prototypicality, which indicates the extent to which the word refers to an emotion. We conducted two lexical decision experiments to examine the role played by emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words. The results showed that emotional prototypicality has a facilitative effect in word recognition. Emotional prototypicality would ease conceptual access, thus facilitating the retrieval of emotional content during word recognition. In addition to the theoretical implications, the evidence gathered in this study also highlights the need to consider emotional prototypicality in the selection of emotion-label words in future studies.© 2022. The Author(s).
Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Oncology Medicine (miscellaneous) Hematology General medicine Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat juan.haro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-3456-4731
Record's date: 2025-01-08
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Paper original source: Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung. 87 (4): 1075-1084
APA: Haro, Juan; Calvillo, Rocio; Poch, Claudia; Antonio Hinojosa, Jose; Ferre, Pilar (2023). Your words went straight to my heart: the role of emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 87(4), 1075-1084. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-022-01723-6
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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