Kazanas Stephanie A, Altarriba Jeanette
Lang Speech. 2016 Sep;59(Pt 3):339-52. doi: 10.1177/0023830915590677.
As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with emotion words than with emotion-laden words. These findings were consistent across unmasked (Experiment 1) and masked (Experiment 2) versions of a lexical decision task, where participants either explicitly or implicitly processed the prime words of each prime-target word pair. Findings from Experiment 2 have been previously replicated by Kazanas and Altarriba with a Spanish–English bilingual sample, when tested in English, the participants’ functionally dominant language. The current study was designed to extend these previous findings, using a l000-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), which was longer than the 250-ms SOA originally used by Kazanas and Altarriba. Findings from the current study supported the division between emotion and emotion-laden words, as they replicated those previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In addition, the current study determined that negative words were processed significantly slower in this experiment, with a long SOA (replicating findings by Rossell and Nobre).
例如，库斯塔及其同事认为情感与饱含情感的词汇之间的区分存在争议，因此，本研究试图重复并扩展卡扎纳斯和阿尔塔里巴之前所描述的研究结果。在他们的研究结果中，卡扎纳斯和阿尔塔里巴报告了情感词汇与饱含情感的词汇在反应时间（RTs）和启动效应上存在显著差异，情感词汇的反应时间更快，启动效应比饱含情感的词汇更大。这些结果在词汇判断任务的无掩蔽（实验1）和掩蔽（实验2）版本中都是一致的，在这些版本中，参与者要么明确要么隐含地处理每个启动词-目标词对中的启动词。卡扎纳斯和阿尔塔里巴之前用西班牙语-英语双语样本重复了实验2的结果，当用参与者的功能优势语言英语进行测试时。本研究旨在扩展这些先前的研究结果，使用1000毫秒的刺激起始异步（SOA），这比卡扎纳斯和阿尔塔里巴最初使用的250毫秒SOA更长。本研究的结果支持了情感与饱含情感的词汇之间的区分，因为它们重复了卡扎纳斯和阿尔塔里巴之前所描述的结果。此外，本研究还确定，在这个实验中，消极词汇的处理速度明显较慢，SOA较长（重复了罗塞尔和诺布雷的研究结果）。
