Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons

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ID11273009
AutoresYurena Morera (0000-0002-4216-3305, Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional. Instituto Universitario de Neurociencia (IUNE), Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain, autor de correspondencia), Jose A Leon (0000-0002-4082-1992, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Inmaculada Escudero (Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain), Manuel De Vega (0000-0002-9596-1642, Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional. Instituto Universitario de Neurociencia (IUNE), Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain)
Año2017
Volumen54
Número8
Páginas583-598
Fecha de publicación2017-11-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0163853x.2015.1137445
OpenAlexW2476682179
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas32

Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or concessive connective (“Because/Although the pupil studied a lot...”), followed by an emotional icon (emoticon), which could match or mismatch the emotional valence of the antecedent. In Experiment 1 participants had to choose the best continuation for the antecedent clause (“he passed” vs. “he failed” the exam) and then identify the emoticon previously shown. In Experiment 2 they had to judge a perceptual feature of the emoticon before performing the consequent choice task. For causal connectives the congruence between the antecedent and the emoticon valence facilitates the consequent choice task (Experiment 1 and Experiment 2) and the emoticon recognition task (Experiment 1) but not the early perceptual judgment task (Experiment 2). This means that causal connectives promote emotional valence continuity at the stage of meaning integration processes. By contrast, concessive connectives do not induce emotional continuity expectancies. In addition, performance in causal positive antecedents and in concessive negative antecedents was more efficient than in the contrasting conditions, suggesting strong emotional biases for these connectives

Antecedent (behavioral psychology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Emotional valence · Linguistics · Perception · Valence (chemistry · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology