skip to main content
Language:
Search Limited to: Search Limited to: Resource type Show Results with: Show Results with: Search type Index

Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2019-10, Vol.38 (5), p.1235-1244 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

The Author(s) 2017 ;COPYRIGHT 2019 Springer ;Current Psychology is a copyright of Springer, (2017). All Rights Reserved. © 2017. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1046-1310 ;EISSN: 1936-4733 ;DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9669-6

Full text available

Citations Cited by
  • Title:
    Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task
  • Author: Imbir, Kamil K.
  • Subjects: Ambiguity ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Cognition & reasoning ; Decision-making ; Emotions ; Psychology ; Social Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2019-10, Vol.38 (5), p.1235-1244
  • Description: This paper presents data concerning the impact of word connotations differing in valence and origin on ambiguous decisions. The origin factor describes engagement of automatic vs. controlled processing mechanisms in formation of an emotional reaction to the stimuli (words, in this case). Other potentially important factors such as arousal, concreteness, frequency of appearance in language and length were matched across conditions. The task was introduced as intuition related and participants were supposed to guess which one of two hexagrams, introduced as pictorial symbols from an East Asian language, best suited the meaning of certain words. The expectation was that the origin of a word’s affective connotations would influence decision making speed, and reaction latencies would be longer for reflectively originated words compared to automatically originated ones. The rationale for such a hypothesis is that reflective origins of emotional reactions are part of rational, multi-criteria processing, representing more complex mechanisms than automatic origins of emotional reactions based on experiential, automatic appraisals, representing less complex processing. For reflectively originated words, reaction latencies for word-sign matching tasks were longer than for automatically originated ones. No valence effects were found. Also no effects of the manipulations were found for time spent look at the words or location (top or bottom) of the chosen response in an ambiguous word-symbol matching task. This suggests that, indeed, origin influences only the type of processing that subsequently occurs, namely whether choices reflected systematic or heuristic processing.
  • Publisher: New York: Springer US
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1046-1310
    EISSN: 1936-4733
    DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9669-6
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
    Springer Open Access
    ProQuest Central
Back to results list
INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY (84-028) 37 755 057 Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn

Copyright © 2017 INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait