Naranowicz Marcin
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Front Psychol. 2022 Nov 11;13:1014706. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1014706. eCollection 2022.
Mood (i.e., our current background affective state) often unobtrusively yet pervasively affects how we think and behave. Typically, theoretical frameworks position it as an embodied source of information (i.e., a biomarker), activating thinking patterns that tune our attention, perception, motivation, and exploration tendencies in a context-dependent manner. Growing behavioural and electrophysiological research has been exploring the mood-language interactions, employing numerous semantics-oriented experimental paradigms (e.g., manipulating semantic associations, congruity, relatedness, etc.) along with mood elicitation techniques (e.g., affectively evocative film clips, music, pictures, etc.). Available behavioural and electrophysiological evidence has suggested that positive and negative moods differently regulate the dynamics of language comprehension, mostly due to the activation of mood-dependent cognitive strategies. Namely, a positive mood has been argued to activate global and heuristics-based processing and a negative mood - local and detail-oriented processing during language comprehension. Future research on mood-language interactions could benefit greatly from (i) a theoretical framework for mood effects on semantic memory, (ii) measuring mood changes multi-dimensionally, (iii) addressing discrepancies in empirical findings, (iv) a replication-oriented approach, and (v) research practices counteracting publication biases.
情绪（即我们当前的背景情感状态）常常在不显眼却又无处不在地影响着我们的思维和行为方式。通常，理论框架将其定位为一种具体的信息来源（即一种生物标志物），激活以情境依赖方式调节我们注意力、感知、动机和探索倾向的思维模式。越来越多的行为和电生理研究一直在探索情绪与语言的相互作用，采用了众多以语义为导向的实验范式（例如，操纵语义联想、一致性、相关性等）以及情绪诱发技术（例如，情感唤起的电影片段、音乐、图片等）。现有的行为和电生理证据表明，积极和消极情绪对语言理解动态的调节方式不同，这主要归因于情绪依赖认知策略的激活。也就是说，有人认为在语言理解过程中，积极情绪会激活基于整体和启发式的加工，而消极情绪会激活基于局部和细节导向的加工。未来关于情绪与语言相互作用的研究可以从以下方面大大受益：（i）一个关于情绪对语义记忆影响的理论框架；（ii）多维测量情绪变化；（iii）解决实证研究结果中的差异；（iv）一种以重复为导向的方法；以及（v）抵消发表偏倚的研究实践。
