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Imbir, Kamil K. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine whether the valence and origin of emotional words can alter perception of ambiguous objects in terms of warmth versus competence, fundamental dimensions of social cognition. 60 individuals were invited into the study focusing on the limits of intuition. They were asked to try to guess the meaning of Japanese…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Language Usage, Affective Behavior, Competence
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Woltz, Dan J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three experiments investigated facilitation in synonym decisions as a function of prior synonym decision trials that were either identical or semantically related. Experiment 1 demonstrated that semantically related prime trials produced less facilitation than identical prime trials, but facilitation from both persisted over 14 intervening trials.…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Language Usage, Decision Making