Emotion Word Processing: Effects of Word Type and Valence in Spanish-English Bilinguals

被引：67

作者：

Kazanas, Stephanie A. ^{[1
]}

Altarriba, Jeanette ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] SUNY Albany, Dept Psychol, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH | 2016年 / 45卷 / 02期

关键词：

Emotion; Word type; Valence; Priming effects; Language dominance; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; CONCRETENESS; ATTENTION; SPEAKERS;

D O I：

10.1007/s10936-015-9357-3

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

Previous studies comparing emotion and emotion-laden word processing have used various cognitive tasks, including an Affective Simon Task (Altarriba and Basnight-Brown in Int J Billing 15(3):310-328, 2011), lexical decision task (LDT; Kazanas and Altarriba in Am J Psychol, in press), and rapid serial visual processing (Knickerbocker and Altarriba in Vis Cogn 21(5):599-627, 2013). Each of these studies has found significant differences in emotion and emotion-laden word processing. The current study investigated this word type distinction using a bilingual sample, to assess emotion and emotion-laden word processing in a bilingual's two languages. Sixty Spanish-English bilinguals performed a masked LDT with positive and negative emotion and emotion-laden word pairs, in either Spanish or English. Overall, the four-way interaction of relatedness, word type, valence, and language was significant. Response times (RTs) to emotion words were significantly faster than RTs to emotion-laden words, but only in English. These results indicate that the emotion/emotion-laden word type distinction may be the most robust in a person's dominant language.

引用

页码：395 / 406

页数：12

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