Influence Of Emotional Valence Research Articles

Embodiment of color metaphor: an image-based visual analysis of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’

AbstractPerceptual information includes sensorimotor and emotional experience regarding the multimodality of the perceptual system. The current study provides an image-based visual analysis on the embodiment of color metaphors through the investigation of (i) the perceptual (dis)similarities between the literal and metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’ and (ii) the influence of emotional valence on the degree of their perceptual (dis)similarities. Specifically, 24 concepts in three semantic domains were represented as eight-dimensional vectors based on the color information extracted from online images, including two color concepts of black and white, 20 abstract concepts referring to 8 metaphorical meanings of hēi and 12 metaphorical meanings of bái, and two abstract concepts referring to positive and negative affective polarity. Statistical analyses show that (i) the literal and metaphorical meanings of hēi and bái are perceptually distinguishable given their significant perceptual (dis)similarities and (ii) the observed perceptual distinguishability cannot be solely attributed to the (in)consistency of emotional valence associated with the senses. The present study provides nonlinguistic evidence for the embodiment of color metaphors in the Chinese context with an empirical approach that can simultaneously capture the metaphorical mappings and affective associations among cross-domain concepts with sensory data.

The analysis of dynamic emotional contagion in online brand community.

Online brand communities (OBCs) could benefit firms in many usages, ranging from collecting consumers’ suggestions or advice to interacting with community members directly and transparently. Creating a positive emotional atmosphere is essential for such communities’ healthy development as its boosts the continuous involvement of each member. However, the dynamic cross-influences and evolution of emotions in OBCs have not been fully explored, which was the research gap this paper tried to fill. Based on emotional contagion theory, this study identifies three sources of textual sentiment through machine learning methods in OBCs: member’s posts, other members’ feedback, and the focal firm’s official feedback. This study further tested the dynamic emotional contagion process among these sources on valence (mean) and volatility (dispersion), namely how they affected each other. Data was collected from the MIUI forum, a large forum launched by Xiaomi corporate on August 1, 2011, which contained 17,622 posts and 99,426 feedback. Results showed that: (1) in the emotional contagion process, there existed differences in the influence of emotional valence and volatility from different sources; (2) all emotional interactions were temporary and mostly lasted no more than three days; (3) the most significant contributor of each sources’ emotion was itself, which could be explained by lagged effect; (4) the valence of focal firm’s emotion (focal firm’s official feedback) was the second contributor of the valence of member’s emotion (member’s posts) and other members’ emotion (other members’ feedback). Three sources of emotion in OBCs and emotional valence/volatility should be considered when firms try to guide the emotional changes in such communities. Furthermore, firms could proactively influence members’ emotions by carefully designing the feedback to members’ posts. Besides, since all interactions are temporary, firms need to engage in online communities frequently, like consistently offering feedback.

The influence of emotional valence on word recognition in people with aphasia

ABSTRACT Although several studies have demonstrated that emotional valence facilitates lexical processing in neurotypical adults, there has been limited work involving people with aphasia. This study explored the effects of valence (valenced/neutral) and polarity (positive/negative) on single word processing. Twenty people with chronic aphasia and 20 neurotypical controls completed a written lexical decision task in which valence was manipulated. An effect of valence (i.e. better performance for valenced vs. neutral words) was found in both accuracy and response time in the aphasic group and in response time for controls. Both groups showed an effect of polarity, with aphasic participants generating fewer errors for positive (vs. negative and neutral) stimuli, and controls responding more quickly to positive (vs. neutral) stimuli. Additionally, performance with positive words was impacted less by aphasia severity than negative and neutral words. The results highlight the importance of valence as a psycholinguistic factor in aphasia assessment and intervention.

The role of the origin (automatic vs. reflective) of affective state for the effectiveness of persuasion based on strong vs. weak arguments

Previous research has focused on the influence of emotional valence on the effectiveness of per-sua­sion via the central route or the peripheral route. The purpose of this study was to answer the question of whether other dimensions of emotion, such as the origin of emotional charge (auto-matic vs. reflective) may also influence the effectiveness of persuasion. It was expected that reflective emotions would increase susceptibility to strong arguments, while automatic emotions would result in a lack of sensitivity to the quality of arguments. Emotional words of proven emotional quality were used to elicit affective states. They were chosen in order to contrast the different levels of emotional valence (negative, neutral, and positive) and the origin of emotion (automatic and reflective). It turned out that in the case of reflective conditions, a significantly higher effectiveness of persuasion was observed for strong arguments than for weak ones. In the case of automatic conditions, there was no difference in the effectiveness of persuasion depending on the quality of the arguments. There were also no differences related to emotional valence; however, the manipulation of affective states on emotional valence dimension turned out not to be effective. This suggests that the origin of emotion can be considered a factor influencing processing via the central or peripheral route to persuasion.

Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influence of emotional valence, group structure, and information distribution.

Social transmission of memory and its consequence on collective memory have generated enduring interdisciplinary interest because of their widespread significance in interpersonal, sociocultural, and political arenas. We tested the influence of 3 key factors-emotional salience of information, group structure, and information distribution-on mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and collective memory. Participants individually studied emotionally salient (negative or positive) and nonemotional (neutral) picture-word pairs that were completely shared, partially shared, or unshared within participant triads, and then completed 3 consecutive recalls in 1 of 3 conditions: individual-individual-individual (control), collaborative-collaborative (identical group; insular structure)-individual, and collaborative-collaborative (reconfigured group; diverse structure)-individual. Collaboration enhanced negative memories especially in insular group structure and especially for shared information, and promoted collective forgetting of positive memories. Diverse group structure reduced this negativity effect. Unequally distributed information led to social contagion that creates false memories; diverse structure propagated a greater variety of false memories whereas insular structure promoted confidence in false recognition and false collective memory. A simultaneous assessment of network structure, information distribution, and emotional valence breaks new ground to specify how network structure shapes the spread of negative memories and false memories, and the emergence of collective memory. (PsycINFO Database Record

The modulation of recall task on collaborative inhibition and error pruning: The influence of emotional valence and level of processing

The modulation of recall task on collaborative inhibition and error pruning: The influence of emotional valence and level of processing

Supplemental Material for Mnemonic Transmission, Social Contagion, and Emergence of Collective Memory: Influence of Emotional Valence, Group Structure, and Information Distribution

Supplemental Material for Mnemonic Transmission, Social Contagion, and Emergence of Collective Memory: Influence of Emotional Valence, Group Structure, and Information Distribution

Effects of learning context on the acquisition and processing of emotional words in bilinguals.

Although bilinguals respond differently to emotionally valenced words in their first language (L1) relative to emotionally neutral words, similar effects of emotional valence are hard to come by in second language (L2) processing. We examine the extent to which these differences in first and second language processing are due to the context in which the 2 languages are acquired: L1 is typically acquired in more naturalistic settings (e.g., family) than L2 (e.g., at school). Fifty German-English bilinguals learned unfamiliar German and English negative and neutral words in 2 different learning conditions: One group (emotion video context) watched videos of a person providing definitions of the words with facial and gestural cues, whereas another group (neutral video context) received the same definitions without gestural and emotional cues. Subsequently, participants carried out an emotional Stroop task, a sentence completion task, and a recall task on the words they had just learned. We found that the effect of learning context on the influence of emotional valence on responding was modulated by a) language status, L1 versus L2, and b) task requirement. We suggest that a more nuanced approach is required to capture the differences in emotion effects in the speed versus accuracy of access to words across different learning contexts and different languages, in particular with regard to our finding that bilinguals respond to L2 words in a similar manner as L1 words provided that the learning context is naturalistic and incorporates emotional and prosodic cues. (PsycINFO Database Record

Influence of emotional valence on the spatial simon effect under the vocal response mode

Influence of emotional valence on the spatial simon effect under the vocal response mode

The influence of emotional coloring of images on visual working memory in adults and adolescents

The influence of emotional valence (positive, negative and neutral) of realistic images on the visual working memory (WM) capacity was studied in adults (N = 40) and adolescents (N = 17). In adults, emotional coloring of stimuli increased the reaction time and decreased the accuracy of WM task performance. This effect was more pronounced for negative than for positive valence: the reaction time has its maximum value for negative emotional stimuli and minimum value for neutral ones with significant differences between all three valences; the accuracy was lower for negative stimuli than for both positive and neutral stimuli. Comparing with adults, adolescents aged 14-16 years showed the lower indices of the performance accuracy and rate during the retention of neutral and positive stimuli in WM. In this group, no significant influence of emotional valence of visual stimuli on the accuracy of WM task performance was found.

Micro-blog social moods and Chinese stock market: the influence of emotional valence and arousal on Shanghai Composite Index volume

Previous psychological researches prove that emotion is of importance in individual risk decision making. So could the public emotion (social moods) influence the collective risk decision making such as the stock market? We obtained the five basic social moods including happiness, sadness, fear, anger and disgust by analysing the text content of daily Sina Weibo using our emotion lexicon. Then we investigated the correlation between the daily social moods and Shanghai Composite Index volume by means of Granger causality analysis and linear regression model. We found sadness can significantly improve the predictive accuracy of the trading volume by 2.4% and reduce the MAPE by 8. The analyses for the five social moods indicated the arousal of sadness is the lowest, and the lowest 25% terms of sadness can predict the total trading amounts of SSEC too. The result indicated the negative emotion with lower arousal can improve the tendency of risk taking, which confirms emotional maintenance hypothesis in psychological discipline.

Influence of emotional valence and arousal on the spread of activation in memory

Controversy still persists on whether emotional valence and arousal influence cognitive activities. Our study sought to compare how these two factors foster the spread of activation within the semantic network. In a lexical decision task, prime words were varied depending on the valence (pleasant or unpleasant) or on the level of emotional arousal (high or low). Target words were carefully selected to avoid semantic priming effects, as well as to avoid arousing specific emotions (neutral). Three SOA durations (220, 420 and 720ms) were applied across three independent groups. Results indicate that at 220ms, the effect of arousal is significantly higher than the effect of valence in facilitating spreading activation while at 420ms, the effect of valence is significantly higher than the effect of arousal in facilitating spreading activation. These findings suggest that affect is a sequential process involving the successive intervention of arousal and valence.

EPA-0649 – Response inhibition in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): the influence of emotional-valence on the P300 brain potential

Introduction Emerging evidence suggests that disturbances in emotional processing in ADHD may interfere with executive functioning, and account for impairments in life functioning. Objective To investigate whether patients with ADHD evidence deficits in processing emotionally-valenced inputs, and to delineate the neurobiological correlates of these deficits. Methods Using event-related potentials from 128-channels, we tested 33 adult ADHD subjects and 29 individually-matched healthy controls (HC) in a cognitive control task of response inhibition. The task was performed by presenting valenced pictures (positive/negative/neutral) of the International Affective Picture System. The pictures were shown in random sequence, and repeated occasionally. Participants were asked to respond to each stimulus, and to withhold response for the repetition. Results With regard to behavioral measures, ADHD subjects showed more commission and omission errors. In terms of ERPs, both groups displayed a pronounced P300 component for all emotional valences in the frontal regions in the NoGo vs. the Go condition (‘NoGo P300’). However, compared to HC's, ADHD subjects showed a significant P300 reduction for negative, but no reduction for positive, or neutral stimuli. Conclusions Regarding the frontal NoGo P300, HC's were able to overcome the intrusion of negative emotion, and showed the same waveform when presented with negative as they showed with positive or neutral stimuli. By contrast, while ADHD subjects did not differ from HC's regarding positive and neutral inputs, they exhibited a pronounced P300 reduction for negative pictures, which may constitute a neurobiological correlate of emotional dysregulation. Supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Grant NN103325

The Influence of Emotional valence and Cognitive Effort on False Memory in DRM paradigm

The Influence of Emotional valence and Cognitive Effort on False Memory in DRM paradigm

The influence of emotional valence on age differences in early processing and memory.

This study examined older and younger adults' attentional biases and subsequent incidental recognition memory for distracting positive, negative, and neutral words. Younger adults were more distracted by negative stimuli than by positive or neutral stimuli, and they correctly recognized more negative than positive words. Older adults, however, attended equally to all stimuli yet showed reliable recognition only for positive words. Thus, although an attentional bias toward negative words carried over into recognition performance for younger adults, older adults' bias appeared to be limited to remembering positive information.

Brain activation during identification of affective speech melody: Influence of emotional valence and sex

Brain activation during identification of affective speech melody: Influence of emotional valence and sex