When unpleasantness meets feminines

A Behavioural Study on Gender Agreement and Emotionality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7149999
AutoresLucía Vieitez (0000-0002-4883-2362, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, autor correspondente), Isabel Padrón (0000-0002-2796-3531, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Isabel Fraga (0000-0001-9346-6560, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Ano2025
Volume39
Fascículo7
Páginas1644-1654
Data de publicação2025-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCognition & Emotion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0269-9931 • E-ISSN: 1464-0600
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02699931.2024.2334834
PMID38554263
OpenAlexW4393340270
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas27

i.e. a gender agreement task). The type of gender (arbitrary/natural), the emotionality (unpleasant/neutral), and the gender class (feminine/masculine) of the nouns were manipulated. We found an overall grammaticality effect, responses being faster in grammatically correct trials than in incorrect ones. However, the effects of emotionality and gender class varied depending on gender type. For arbitrary gender, the grammaticality effect was greater in feminine nouns than in masculine nouns and independent of emotionality. For natural gender, the grammaticality effect interacted with gender class and emotionality, this effect only emerging in unpleasant stimuli for feminine nouns. Our results reveal that it is possible to find emotional effects at the behavioural level in an intrinsically grammatical task. Yet, these effects depend on gender properties like the type of gender and the gender class

Cognitive psychology · Emotionality · Grammar · Grammatical Gender · Grammaticality · Linguistics · Noun · Sentence · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence