Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?
Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01191
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
O'Donnell PJ
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作者：
Sereno SC;Scott GG;Yao B;Thaden EJ;O'Donnell PJ
视觉情感词汇加工是近年来心理语言学研究的热点。一般来说，情感词与中性词相比会引起不同的反应。然而，单词通常在上下文中处理，而不是孤立地处理。例如，一个人的内在情绪状态如何影响对情感词的理解？为了解决这个问题，本研究考察了词汇决策反应的情感积极，消极和中性词作为一个功能的诱导情绪以及他们的词频。通过让参与者接触不同类型的音乐来操纵情绪。参与者被随机分配到三个条件之一-没有音乐，积极的音乐和消极的音乐。在实验过程中评估了参与者的情绪，以确认情绪诱导操作。反应时间的结果证实了先前的演示之间的相互作用的一个词的情感和它的频率。研究结果还表明，参与者的情绪和词的情绪性之间的显着的相互作用。然而，结果的模式是不一致的情绪一致性效应。虽然积极和消极的情绪促进反应整体相比，控制组，无论是积极的还是消极的情绪出现，另外促进反应的情绪一致的话。相反，研究结果的模式似乎是由诱导情绪引起的注意力效应的结果。积极情绪将注意力扩展到全局水平，消除了积极-消极效价的类别区分，但保持了高-低唤醒维度不变。相反，消极情绪会将注意力缩小到局部水平，增强类别内的区别，特别是对消极词，导致不太有效的促进。
Visual emotion word processing has been in the focus of recent psycholinguistic research. In general, emotion words provoke differential responses in comparison to neutral words. However, words are typically processed within a context rather than in isolation. For instance, how does one's inner emotional state influence the comprehension of emotion words? To address this question, the current study examined lexical decision responses to emotionally positive, negative, and neutral words as a function of induced mood as well as their word frequency. Mood was manipulated by exposing participants to different types of music. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions—no music, positive music, and negative music. Participants' moods were assessed during the experiment to confirm the mood induction manipulation. Reaction time results confirmed prior demonstrations of an interaction between a word's emotionality and its frequency. Results also showed a significant interaction between participant mood and word emotionality. However, the pattern of results was not consistent with mood-congruency effects. Although positive and negative mood facilitated responses overall in comparison to the control group, neither positive nor negative mood appeared to additionally facilitate responses to mood-congruent words. Instead, the pattern of findings seemed to be the consequence of attentional effects arising from induced mood. Positive mood broadens attention to a global level, eliminating the category distinction of positive-negative valence but leaving the high-low arousal dimension intact. In contrast, negative mood narrows attention to a local level, enhancing within-category distinctions, in particular, for negative words, resulting in less effective facilitation.