Liu Hongyan, Hu Zhiguo, Peng Danling
Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2013 Aug;42(4):379-91. doi: 10.1007/s10936-012-9221-7.
The present study aims to explore the influence of emotional context on word evaluation. Participants were asked to read an "adjective + noun" phrase, where the adjective could be a positive or negative word, and the noun could be a positive, neutral or negative word, and then to make an emotional evaluation on the emotional tone of the target noun based on a 9-point Likert scale. In a control condition, an isolated noun was presented with no context. Results showed that positive context made the evaluation of target words bias toward positive tone, while negative context shaped the evaluation of target words toward negative tone. The modulatory effect of negative context was greater than that of positive context in shaping evaluation of emotional words with opposite valence. Moreover, the modulatory effect of emotional context was constrained by the inherent meaning of target word. The present study demonstrated the flexibility as well as the relative stability of emotional meaning of word.
本研究旨在探讨情绪背景对词汇评价的影响。参与者被要求阅读一个“形容词+名词”短语，其中形容词可以是积极或消极的词，名词可以是积极、中性或消极的词，然后基于9点李克特量表对目标名词的情感基调进行情感评价。在控制条件下，呈现一个没有上下文的孤立名词。结果表明，积极背景使目标词的评价偏向积极基调，而消极背景则使目标词的评价偏向消极基调。在塑造具有相反效价的情感词评价方面，消极背景的调节作用大于积极背景。此外，情绪背景的调节作用受到目标词固有意义的限制。本研究证明了词汇情感意义的灵活性以及相对稳定性。
