Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words
Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.007
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Vigliocco, Gabriella
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作者：
Kousta, Stavroula-Thaleia;Vinson, David P.;Vigliocco, Gabriella
尽管人们对情绪和认知之间的界面越来越感兴趣，但情绪在认知任务中的作用尚不清楚。根据一种假设，负效价与生存更相关，并且与刺激处理的普遍放缓有关，这是由于面对威胁时冻结活动的防御机制。根据另一种不认为厌恶系统具有特权作用的假设，价态，无论极性如何，由于生存和实现目标的消极和积极刺激的相关性，促进了加工。在这里，我们提供证据表明情绪效价在言语刺激的处理中具有全面的促进作用，为后一种假设提供了支持。我们发现消极词汇和积极词汇之间没有不对称，并建议之前的发现这种不对称可归因于未能控制一些关键词汇变量和抽样偏差。(C) 2009 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Despite increasing interest in the interface between emotion and cognition, the role of emotion in cognitive tasks is unclear. According to one hypothesis, negative valence is more relevant for survival and is associated with a general slowdown of the processing of stimuli, due to a defense mechanism that freezes activity in the face of threat. According to a different hypothesis which does not posit a privileged role for the aversive system, valence, regardless of polarity, facilitates processing due to the relevance of both negative and positive stimuli for survival and for the attainment of goals. Here, we present evidence that emotional valence has an overall facilitatory role in the processing of verbal stimuli, providing support for the latter hypothesis, We found no asymmetry between negative and positive words and suggest that previous findings of such an asymmetry can be attributed to failure to control for a number of critical lexical variables and to a sampling bias. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.