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Exploring the differences in processing between Chinese emotion and emotion-laden words: A cross-task comparison study.

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Title: Exploring the differences in processing between Chinese emotion and emotion-laden words: A cross-task comparison study.
Authors: Zheng, Ruiyao1 (AUTHOR), Zhang, Meng2 (AUTHOR), Guasch, Marc1 (AUTHOR), Ferré, Pilar1 (AUTHOR) mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
Source: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Jul2025, Vol. 78 Issue 7, p1426-1437. 12p.
Subject Terms: Connotation (Linguistics), Semantics, Chinese language, Affect (Psychology), Emotions
Abstract: Affective words can be classified into two types: emotion words (EM words, e.g., "happy") and emotion-laden words (EL words, e.g., "wedding"). Several studies have shown differences in processing between EM and EL words, although results are inconclusive. These two types of words may have representational differences because affective content is an inherent part of the semantic features of EM words (i.e., denotative meaning) but not of EL words, whose affective content is part of their connotative meaning (i.e., these words do not name emotions, but are associated with emotions). In this study, we tested a set of Chinese EM and EL words. Both conditions included positive and negative words. The study involved two tasks, an implicit task, in which emotional content was not relevant (lexical decision task, LDT), and an explicit task, in which the emotional content was relevant (affective categorisation task, ACT). Our results showed that participants responded faster to EM words than to EL words. This advantage was mostly observed in the ACT and with negative words. These results reveal differences in processing between EM and EL words which can be related to the greater relevance of affective content in the meaning of EM words compared with EL words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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