Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Psychol Res. 2023 Jun;87(4):1075-1084. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01723-6. Epub 2022 Sep 3.
Emotional words differ in how they acquire their emotional charge. There is a relevant distinction between emotion-label words (those that directly name an emotion, e.g., "joy" or "sadness") and emotion-laden words (those that do not name an emotion, but can provoke it, e.g., "party" or "death"). In this work, we focused on emotion-label words. These words vary in their emotional prototypicality, which indicates the extent to which the word refers to an emotion. We conducted two lexical decision experiments to examine the role played by emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words. The results showed that emotional prototypicality has a facilitative effect in word recognition. Emotional prototypicality would ease conceptual access, thus facilitating the retrieval of emotional content during word recognition. In addition to the theoretical implications, the evidence gathered in this study also highlights the need to consider emotional prototypicality in the selection of emotion-label words in future studies.
情绪词在获得情绪色彩的方式上有所不同。有一个相关的区别是情感标签词（那些直接命名一种情绪的词，例如“joy”或“sadness”）和情感承载词（那些没有命名一种情绪，但可以引发情绪的词，例如“party”或“death”）。在这项工作中，我们专注于情感标签词。这些词在情绪典型性上有所不同，这表明这个词在多大程度上指的是一种情绪。我们进行了两个词汇判断实验，以检验情绪典型性在情绪标签词识别中的作用。结果表明，情绪典型性在词汇识别中具有促进作用。情绪典型性会促进概念的获取，从而在词汇识别过程中促进情绪内容的检索。除了理论意义外，本研究收集的证据还强调了在未来的研究中需要考虑情绪典型性来选择情绪标签词。
