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Chang CY, Tsai MN, Sung YT, Cho SL, Chen HC. Weighting Assessment of the Effect of Chinese State-Changing Words on Emotions. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2023; 52:2545-2566. [PMID: 37688761 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-09986-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/11/2023]
Abstract
Past studies of sentiment analysis have mainly applied algorithms based on vocabulary categories and emotional characteristics to detect the emotionality of text. However, the collocation of state-changing words and emotional vocabulary affects emotions. For example, adverbs of degree strengthen emotions, and negative adverbs reverse emotions. This study investigated the weighted effect of state-changing words on emotion. The research material comprised 73 state-changing words that were collocated with four emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and anger. A total of 84 participants participated in the vocabulary assessment. The results revealed that state-changing words could be classified into four types: intensifying, weakening, neutralizing, and reversing. In a comparison of the weighting factors among emotions, the weighting effect of the same state-changing word in the positive emotion category was particularly evident. The results could serve as a reference for follow-up studies on detecting emotions in text.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chia-Yueh Chang
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Education College Building, Room 612, No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 10610, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Education College Building, Room 612, No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 10610, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Education College Building, Room 612, No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 10610, Taiwan, ROC
- Chinese Language and Technology Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
- Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Education College Building, Room 612, No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 10610, Taiwan, ROC.
- Chinese Language and Technology Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
- NSTC AI Biomedical Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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Wu C, Zhang J, Yuan Z. Can Masked Emotion-Laden Words Prime Emotion-Label Words? An ERP Test on the Mediated Account. Front Psychol 2021; 12:721783. [PMID: 34764910 PMCID: PMC8576488 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The present event-related potential (ERP) study explored whether masked emotion-laden words could facilitate the processing of both emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a valence judgment task. The results revealed that emotion-laden words as primes failed to influence target emotion-label word processing, whereas emotion-laden words facilitated target emotion-laden words in the congruent condition. Specifically, decreased late positivity complex (LPC) was elicited by emotion-laden words primed by emotion-laden words of the same valence than those primed by emotion-laden words of different valence. Nevertheless, no difference was observed for emotion-label words as targets. These findings supported the mediated account that claimed emotion-laden words engendered emotion via the mediation of emotion-label words and hypothesized that emotion-laden words could not prime emotion-label words in the masked priming paradigm. Moreover, this study provided additional evidence showing the distinction between emotion-laden words and emotion-label words.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chenggang Wu
- Multilingual Edu-AI Laboratory, School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.,Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, China.,Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.,Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
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Wu C, Zhang J, Yuan Z. Exploring Affective Priming Effect of Emotion-Label Words and Emotion-Laden Words: An Event-Related Potential Study. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11050553. [PMID: 33925670 PMCID: PMC8145978 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In order to explore the affective priming effect of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words, the current study used unmasked (Experiment 1) and masked (Experiment 2) priming paradigm by including emotion-label words (e.g., sadness, anger) and emotion-laden words (e.g., death, gift) as primes and examined how the two kinds of words acted upon the processing of the target words (all emotion-laden words). Participants were instructed to decide the valence of target words, and their electroencephalogram was recorded at the same time. The behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) results showed that positive words produced a priming effect whereas negative words inhibited target word processing (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, the inhibition effect of negative emotion-label words on emotion word recognition was found in both behavioral and ERP results, suggesting that modulation of emotion word type on emotion word processing could be observed even in the masked priming paradigm. The two experiments further supported the necessity of defining emotion words under an emotion word type perspective. The implications of the findings are proffered. Specifically, a clear understanding of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words can improve the effectiveness of emotional communications in clinical settings. Theoretically, the emotion word type perspective awaits further explorations and is still at its infancy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chenggang Wu
- School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China;
- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, E33, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
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- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, E33, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, E33, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau 999078, China;
- Correspondence:
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- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, E33, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau 999078, China;
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, E33, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
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