2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721783
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Can Masked Emotion-Laden Words Prime Emotion-Label Words? An ERP Test on the Mediated Account

Abstract: The present event-related potential (ERP) study explored whether masked emotion-laden words could facilitate the processing of both emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a valence judgment task. The results revealed that emotion-laden words as primes failed to influence target emotion-label word processing, whereas emotion-laden words facilitated target emotion-laden words in the congruent condition. Specifically, decreased late positivity complex (LPC) was elicited by emotion-laden words primed by em… Show more

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“…The processing advantage of positive words over negative words in the valence judgment task has been consistently observed in previous investigations [8,9]. Wu et al (2021aWu et al ( , 2021b borrowed the idea of the density hypothesis to explain this advantage, suggesting that positive words are represented more densely compared to negative words, which are represented with greater disparity [49].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 59%
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“…The processing advantage of positive words over negative words in the valence judgment task has been consistently observed in previous investigations [8,9]. Wu et al (2021aWu et al ( , 2021b borrowed the idea of the density hypothesis to explain this advantage, suggesting that positive words are represented more densely compared to negative words, which are represented with greater disparity [49].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 59%
“…Emotion words, by definition in the two dimensions, are more positive or negative than neutral words, and also are more arousing than neutral words. However, recent studies have revealed that, apart from valence and arousal, there are several other relevant variables that can modulate emotion word processing, including concreteness [5], age of acquisition [6], emotion prototypicality [7], and emotion word type [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Concreteness differentiates concrete words (e.g., table) from abstract words (e.g., destiny).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such an effect could be explained from several possible explanations. One possible account is the “mediated account” ( Altarriba and Basnight-Brown, 2011 ; Wu et al, 2021a ) which suggests that emotion-laden words could be viewed as a kind of “mediated” affective concepts. Thus, their emotional meanings could be accessed only through a “mediated event” that links the conceptual meanings and associated affective experiences.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, Kazanas and Altarriba (2015) found facilitated processing of emotion-label words in both implicit (masked) and explicit (unmasked) lexical decision task (LDT), with faster response times (RTs) and greater priming effects relative to emotion-laden words. Research using event-related potentials (ERPs) has further demonstrated different neural mechanisms underlying the processing of L1 emotion-label and emotion-laden words ( Zhang et al, 2017 , 2019b ; Wang et al, 2019 ; Wu et al, 2020 , 2021a , b ; Li et al, 2022 ; Liu et al, 2022a , b ; Yeh et al, 2022 ). Zhang et al (2017) for instance, compared the time course of emotion activation of the two kinds of emotion words in an LDT.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Abstract concepts constitute a very heterogeneous group, including those related to mental states, social phenomena, institutional, mathematical and emotion concepts, and have been the topic of several important studies ( Setti and Caramelli, 2005 ; Crutch et al, 2013 ; Ghio et al, 2013 ; Roversi et al, 2013 ; Barca et al, 2017 ; Harpaintner et al, 2018 ; Mazzuca et al, 2018 ; Villani et al, 2019 ). Although it is important to point out that all concepts have to some extent an emotional charge ( Altarriba and Basnight-Brown, 2011 ; Wu et al, 2021 ), in the case of concepts referring to emotions, these refer to emotional states such as anger or joy ( Altarriba et al, 1999 ; Altarriba and Bauer, 2004 ; Xu et al, 2017 ) and are developed throughout life through social interactions that occur in different contexts, in which language plays an important role ( Hoemann et al, 2019 ) just as abstract concepts ( Fini et al, 2021 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%