Ruiyao Zheng, Meng Zhang, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferre
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Abstract
Affective words can be classified into two types: emotion words (EM words, e.g., "happy") and emotion-laden words (EL words, e.g., "wedding"). Several studies have shown differences in processing between EM and EL words, although results are inconclusive. These two types of words may have representational differences because affective content is an inherent part of the semantic features of EM words (i.e., denotative meaning) but not of EL words, whose affective content is part of their connotative meaning (i.e., these words do not name emotions, but are associated to emotions). In this study, we tested a set of Chinese EM and EL words. Both conditions included positive and negative words. The study involved two tasks, an implicit task, in which emotional content was not relevant (lexical decision task, LDT), and an explicit task, in which the emotional content was relevant (affective categorization task, ACT). Our results showed that participants responded faster to EM words than to EL words. This advantage was mostly observed in the ACT and with negative words. These results reveal differences in processing between EM and EL words which can be related to the greater relevance of affective content in the meaning of EM words compared to EL words.
情感词可分为两类：情感词（EM 词，如 "快乐"）和情感词（EL 词，如 "婚礼"）。有几项研究表明，EM 词和 EL 词在处理过程中存在差异，但结果尚无定论。这两类词可能存在表征上的差异，因为情感内容是EM词（即指称意义）语义特征的固有组成部分，而不是EL词，后者的情感内容是其内涵意义的一部分（即这些词不命名情感，但与情感相关联）。在本研究中，我们测试了一组中文EM词和EL词。两种情况都包括正面和负面词语。研究包括两个任务，一个是与情绪内容无关的内隐任务（词汇决策任务，LDT），另一个是与情绪内容相关的外显任务（情绪分类任务，ACT）。我们的研究结果表明，受试者对 EM 词的反应快于 EL 词。这种优势主要体现在情感分类任务和负面词语上。这些结果揭示了EM词和EL词在处理过程中的差异，这可能与EM词和EL词的意义中情感内容的相关性更大有关。
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