Lindquist Kristen A, Barrett Lisa Feldman, Bliss-Moreau Eliza, Russell James A
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Emotion. 2006 Feb;6(1):125-38. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.1.125.
Three studies assessed the relationship between language and the perception of emotion. The authors predicted and found that the accessibility of emotion words influenced participants' speed or accuracy in perceiving facial behaviors depicting emotion. Specifically, emotion words were either primed or temporarily made less accessible using a semantic satiation procedure. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were slower to categorize facial behaviors depicting emotion (i.e., a face depicting anger) after an emotion word (e.g., "anger") was satiated. In Study 3, participants were less accurate to categorize facial behaviors depicting emotion after an emotion word was satiated. The implications of these findings for a linguistically relative view of emotion perception are discussed.
三项研究评估了语言与情绪感知之间的关系。作者预测并发现，情绪词汇的可及性会影响参与者对描绘情绪的面部行为的感知速度或准确性。具体而言，使用语义饱和程序使情绪词汇要么被启动，要么暂时难以被获取。在研究1和研究2中，在一个情绪词汇（如“愤怒”）出现语义饱和后，参与者对描绘情绪的面部行为（如一张愤怒的脸）进行分类的速度会变慢。在研究3中，在一个情绪词汇出现语义饱和后，参与者对描绘情绪的面部行为进行分类的准确性会降低。本文讨论了这些发现对情绪感知的语言相对论观点的影响。
