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The acquisition of emotion-laden words from childhood to adolescence
Studies investigating how children acquire emotional vocabularies have mainly focused on words that describe feelings or affective states...
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Your words went straight to my heart: the role of emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words
Emotional words differ in how they acquire their emotional charge. There is a relevant distinction between emotion-label words (those that directly...
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Multi-Trial Episodic Recall and Recognition of Emotion-Laden Words in First Versus Second Language
Monolingual studies contrasting memory for positive versus negative emotion-laden words have generally used single-trial paradigms and have produced...
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Emotional Prototypicality Ratings for 636 Chinese Words: A Database of Chinese Words with Affective Information
Exemplars of concepts vary in their degree of prototypicality. This is also true for emotion concepts. This study presents prototypicality ratings...
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Which word makes you feel more negative? “Nausea” or “corpse”
In the field of emotional language research, emotional words have always been the main stimulus for researchers to explore the cognitive mechanisms...
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What is an Emotion-label Word? Emotional Prototypicality (EmoPro) Rating for 1,083 Chinese Emotion Words and Its Relationships with Psycholinguistic Variables
The present study offered the emotion prototypicality (EmoPro) ratings for 1,083 Chinese emotion words. EmoPro measures the extent to which an...
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The Relationship Between Personality Traits and the Processing of Emotion Words: Evidence from Eye-Movements in Sentence Reading
Previous research shows that processing times on emotion words (both negative and positive) are faster than on non-emotional neutral words. In the...
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EmoPro – Emotional prototypicality for 1286 Spanish words: Relationships with affective and psycholinguistic variables
We present EmoPro, a normative study of the emotion lexicon of the Spanish language. We provide emotional prototypicality ratings for 1286 emotion...
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Not perceptually equivalent in semantic emotion across visual and auditory modalities: cross-modal affective norms of two-character Chinese emotion-label words
Over recent years, although multi-sensory studies have increasingly revealed modality-specific mechanisms underlying lexical processing, validated...
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The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming
In the verbal affective priming paradigm, the properties of a subliminally presented stimulus alter the interpretation of neutral target stimulus. In...
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How Male and Female Literary Authors Write About Affect Across Cultures and Over Historical Periods
A wealth of literature suggests the existence of sex differences in how emotions are experienced, recognized, expressed, and regulated. However, to...
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In Their Own Words: Mothers Narrate the Lived Experience of Raising Children with Developmental Disorders Who Engage in Socially Disruptive Conduct
The occupational role of a mother parenting a child with developmental and socially disruptive conduct is unique. How mothers express their...
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In our own words: key terms and trends in psychoanalytic history
Inspired by the work of Fonagy (2008) and Dent and Christian (2019), this study applies a form of quantitative textual analysis to 300 terms of...
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Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic
The topic of affective development over the lifespan is at the forefront of psychological science. One of the intriguing findings in this area is...
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The Effects of Problematic Internet Use and Emotional Connotation on Internet Slang Processing: Evidence from a Lexical Decision Task
Young people use slang for identifying themselves with a particular social group, gaining social recognition and respect from that group, and...
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Investigating the roles of age, sex, depression, and anxiety for valence and arousal ratings of words: a population-based study
BackgroundThe perception of the affective quality of stimuli with regard to valence and arousal has mostly been studied in laboratory experiments....
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More than Face Value: Context and Age Differences in Negative Emotion Discrimination
Age-related deficits are often observed in emotion categorization tasks that include negative emotional expressions like anger, fear, and sadness....
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Parents’ Emotional Responses to Behavior Analysis Terms: A Comparative Analysis
Behavior analysts are concerned with develo** strong client–therapist relationships. One challenge to the development of such relationships may be...
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Conflict Processing is Modulated by Positive Emotion Word Type in Second Language: An ERP Study
In the present study, we examined modulations of the second language (L2) positive emotion-label words, positive emotion-laden words, and neutral...
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The cultural evolution of emotion
Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural influences against one another. Although many existing...
