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The word concreteness effect occurs for positive, but not negative, emotion words in immediate serial recall
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9619192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chi‐shing Tse (0000-0003-3676-8102, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), Jeanette Altarriba (0000-0002-9510-101X, Albany State University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-109 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1348/000712608x318617 |
| PMID | 18559138 |
| OpenAlex | W2035536647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
The present study examined the roles of word concreteness and word valence in the immediate serial recall task. Emotion words (e.g. happy ) were used to investigate these effects. Participants completed study‐test trials with seven‐item study lists consisting of positive or negative words with either high or low concreteness (Experiments 1 and 2) and neutral (i.e. non‐emotion) words with either high or low concreteness (Experiment 2). For neutral words, the typical word concreteness effect (concrete words are better recalled than abstract words) was replicated. For emotion words, the effect occurred for positive words, but not for negative words. While the word concreteness effect was stronger for neutral words than for negative words, it was not different for the neutral words and the positive words. We conclude that both word valence and word concreteness simultaneously contribute to the item and order retention of emotion words and discuss how Hulme et al. 's (1997) item redintegration account can be modified to explain these findings
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Concreteness · Emotional valence · Free recall · Linguistics · Recall · Valence (chemistry) · Word (group theory) · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Memory Processes and Influences · Neuroscience · Psychology
Mental Representations
Memory enhancement for emotional words
The automatic access of emotion
The MRC Psycholinguistic Database
The pollyanna hypothesis
The English Lexicon Project
Concreteness, context availability, and imageability ratings and word associations for abstract, concrete, and emotion words
The University of South Florida free association, rhyme, and word fragment norms
Source memory enhancement for emotional words
Associative Asymmetry
Evaluative Meaning as a Determinant of Spew Positions
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |