The role of individual differences in emotional word recognition: Insights from a large-scale lexical decision study.

Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101244316 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1554-3528 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 1554351X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Behav Res Methods Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2010- : New York : Springer
Original Publication: Austin, Tex. : Psychonomic Society, c2005-

Individuality* ; Emotions*/physiology ; Recognition, Psychology*/physiology; Humans ; Female ; Male ; Adult ; Young Adult ; Reaction Time/physiology ; Decision Making/physiology ; Arousal/physiology ; Adolescent ; Personality ; Reading

This work presents a large lexical decision mega-study in Spanish, with 918 participants and 7500 words, focusing on emotional content and individual differences. The main objective was to investigate how emotional valence and arousal influence word recognition, controlling for a large number of confounding variables. In addition, as a unique contribution, the study examined the modulation of these effects by individual differences. Results indicated a significant effect of valence and arousal on lexical decision times, with an interaction between these variables. A linear effect of valence was observed, with slower recognition times for negative words and faster recognition times for positive words. In addition, arousal showed opposite effects in positive and negative words. Importantly, the effect of emotional variables was affected by personality traits (extroversion, conscientiousness and openness to experience), age and gender, challenging the 'one-size-fits-all' interpretation of emotional word processing. All data collected in the study is available to the research community: https://osf.io/cbtqy . This includes data from each participant (RTs, errors and individual differences scores), as well as values of concreteness (n = 1690), familiarity (n = 1693) and age of acquisition (n = 2171) of the words collected exclusively for this study. This is a useful resource for researchers interested not only in emotional word processing, but also in lexical processing in general and the influence of individual differences.
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Keywords: Emotional valence; Individual differences; Lexical decision task; Personality traits; Word recognition

Date Created: 20240904 Date Completed: 20241031 Latest Revision: 20241102

20241102

PMC11525433

10.3758/s13428-024-02488-z

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