Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression
This study explored the performance of Chinese college students with different severity of trait depression to process English emotional speech under a complete semantics–prosody Stroop effect paradigm in quiet and noisy conditions. A total of 24 college students with high-trait depression and 24 st...
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| description | This study explored the performance of Chinese college students with different severity of trait depression to process English emotional speech under a complete semantics–prosody Stroop effect paradigm in quiet and noisy conditions. A total of 24 college students with high-trait depression and 24 students with low-trait depression participated in this study. They were required to selectively attend to either the prosodic emotion (happy, sad) or semantic valence (positive and negative) of the English words they heard and then respond quickly. Both prosody task and semantic task were performed in quiet and noisy listening conditions. Results showed that the high-trait group reacted slower than the low-trait group in the prosody task due to their bluntness and insensitivity toward emotional processing. Besides, both groups reacted faster under the consistent situation, showing a clear congruency-induced facilitation effect and the wide existence of the Stroop effect in both tasks. Only the Stroop effect played a bigger role during emotional prosody identification in quiet condition, and the noise eliminated such an effect. For the sake of experimental design, both groups spent less time on the prosody task than the semantic task regardless of consistency in all listening conditions, indicating the friendliness of basic emotion identification and the difficulty for second language learners in face of semantic judgment. These findings suggest the unneglectable effects of college students’ mood conditions and noise outside on emotion word processing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94ef24d79d8c4fdea3d40805c92b22602022-12-22T03:29:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-06-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.889476889476Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait DepressionFei ChenJing LianGaode ZhangChengyu GuoThis study explored the performance of Chinese college students with different severity of trait depression to process English emotional speech under a complete semantics–prosody Stroop effect paradigm in quiet and noisy conditions. A total of 24 college students with high-trait depression and 24 students with low-trait depression participated in this study. They were required to selectively attend to either the prosodic emotion (happy, sad) or semantic valence (positive and negative) of the English words they heard and then respond quickly. Both prosody task and semantic task were performed in quiet and noisy listening conditions. Results showed that the high-trait group reacted slower than the low-trait group in the prosody task due to their bluntness and insensitivity toward emotional processing. Besides, both groups reacted faster under the consistent situation, showing a clear congruency-induced facilitation effect and the wide existence of the Stroop effect in both tasks. Only the Stroop effect played a bigger role during emotional prosody identification in quiet condition, and the noise eliminated such an effect. For the sake of experimental design, both groups spent less time on the prosody task than the semantic task regardless of consistency in all listening conditions, indicating the friendliness of basic emotion identification and the difficulty for second language learners in face of semantic judgment. These findings suggest the unneglectable effects of college students’ mood conditions and noise outside on emotion word processing.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.889476/fullsemantics–prosody StroopEnglishemotion word processingtrait depressioncollege students |
| spellingShingle | Fei Chen Jing Lian Gaode Zhang Chengyu Guo Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression Frontiers in Psychiatry semantics–prosody Stroop English emotion word processing trait depression college students |
| title | Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression |
| title_full | Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression |
| title_fullStr | Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression |
| title_full_unstemmed | Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression |
| title_short | Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression |
| title_sort | semantics prosody stroop effect on english emotion word processing in chinese college students with trait depression |
| topic | semantics–prosody Stroop English emotion word processing trait depression college students |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.889476/full |
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