TY  - JOUR
AU  - Beixian Gu
AU  - Bo Liu
AU  - Huili Wang
AU  - David Beltran Guerrero
AU  - Manuel de Vega Rodríguez
T1  - Learning new words’ emotional meanings in the contexts of faces and sentences
LA  - eng
PY  - 2021
SP  - 57
EP  - 84
T2  - Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental
SN  - 0211-2159
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
PB  - Departamento de de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento
PP  - Valencia
AB  - Language is a powerful vehicle for expressing emotions, although the process by which words acquire their emotional meaning remains poorly understood. This study investigates how words acquire emotional meanings using two types of associative contexts: faces and sentences. To this end, participants were exposed topseudowords repeatedly paired either with faces or with sentences expressing the emotions of disgust, sadness, or neutrality. We examined participants’ acquisition of meanings by testing them in both within-modality (e.g., learning pseudowords with faces and testing them with a new set of faces with the target expressions) and cross-modality generalization tasks (e.g. learning pseudowords with faces and testing them with sentences). Results in the generalization tests showed that the participants in the Face Group acquired disgust and neutral meanings better than participants in the Sentence Group. In turn, participants in the Sentence Group acquired the meaning of sadness better than their counterparts in the Face Group, but this advantage was only manifested in the cross-modality test with faces. We conclude that both contexts are effective for acquiring the emotional meaning of words, although acquisition with faces is more versatile or generalizable.
DO  - 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0004
UR  - https://portalciencia.ull.es/documentos/606c56a5bd14d863687ffed4
DP  - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación
ER  -