Using affective knowledge to generate and validate a set of emotion-related, action words

Emotion concepts are built through situated experience. Abstract word meaning is grounded in this affective knowledge, giving words the potential to evoke emotional feelings and reactions (e.g., Vigliocco et al., 2009). In the present work we explore whether words differ in the extent to which they...

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Main Authors: Emma Portch, Jelena Havelka, Charity Brown, Roger Giner-Sorolla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1100.pdf