Dokument: Love, laugh, life—the effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words
| Titel: | Love, laugh, life—the effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=71265 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20251107-111751-4 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Publikationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Texte » Artikel, Aufsatz | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autoren: | Espey, Linda [Autor] Bechtold, Laura [Autor] Ghio, Marta [Autor] | |||||||
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| Stichwörter: | Emotion-laden , Emotionality , Ratings , Lexical decision task , Emotion-label , Empathy | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | While there is accumulating evidence that emotional words are processed faster than neutral words, findings regarding processing differences between emotion-label and emotion-laden words are inconsistent, potentially due to uncontrolled word- or participant-specific characteristics. We therefore analyzed lexical decision reaction times for emotion-label, emotion-laden, and neutral abstract words, while controlling for subjective differences in word valence, arousal, concreteness, and interoception, as well as considering inter-individual differences in empathy. We neither replicated the facilitatory emotionality effect for emotion-label or emotion-laden compared to neutral word processing nor found evidence for a reaction time difference between emotion-label and -laden words. Notably, however, results showed a word type-specific effect of empathy: Participants reacted faster to specifically emotion-label words, the higher their empathy. Additional exploratory analyses confirmed a word-type-specific gradual pattern, with stronger association of emotion-label than emotion-laden than neutral words with absolute valence, arousal and interoception. These analyses yet again revealed a word-type-specific modulation by empathy, wherein emotion-label words’ ratings were significantly enhanced by empathy. Individual differences in empathy thus seem to affect specifically the processing of emotion-label words and the evaluation of their affective properties. Our findings underline the importance to consider word- and participant-specific characteristics in research on the semantic processing of emotional abstract words. | |||||||
| Rechtliche Vermerke: | Originalveröffentlichung:
Espey, L., Bechtold, L., & Ghio, M. (2025). Love, laugh, life—the effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 32468. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18415-x | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 07.11.2025 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 07.11.2025 |
