Psychology Department, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Cognition. 2012 Nov;125(2):333-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.013. Epub 2012 Aug 9.
Emotion effects in reading have typically been investigated by manipulating words' emotional valence and arousal in lexical decision. The standard finding is that valence and arousal can have both facilitatory and inhibitory effects, which is hard to reconcile with current theories of emotion processing in reading. Here, we contrasted these theories with the contextual-learning hypothesis, according to which, sensitivity to a specific emotion - disgust in the present study - rather than valence or arousal affects lexical decision performance. Participants were divided into two groups (high versus low disgust sensitivity). Results showed that participants with high disgust sensitivity showed an inhibitory effect, whereas participants with low-disgust sensitivity showed a facilitatory effect. Individual differences in lexical decision performance were predicted by disgust sensitivity but not valence, arousal, or general emotion sensitivity. These findings highlight the need to focus on individual differences both in studies and theories of emotion processing in reading.
阅读中的情绪效应通常通过在词汇判断中操纵单词的情感效价和唤醒度来进行研究。标准的发现是，效价和唤醒度都可以产生促进和抑制作用，这与当前阅读中情绪处理的理论很难协调。在这里，我们将这些理论与语境学习假说进行了对比，根据该假说，对特定情绪（本研究中的厌恶感）的敏感性，而不是效价或唤醒度，会影响词汇判断表现。参与者被分为两组（高敏感组和低敏感组）。结果表明，高厌恶敏感组表现出抑制作用，而低厌恶敏感组表现出促进作用。词汇判断表现的个体差异可以通过厌恶敏感度来预测，但不能通过效价、唤醒度或一般情绪敏感度来预测。这些发现强调了在研究和理论中都需要关注阅读中情绪处理的个体差异。
