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Discourse comprehension and simulation of positive emotions

dc.contributor.authorHorchak, Oleksandr V.
dc.contributor.authorGiger, Jean-Christophe
dc.contributor.authorPochwatko, Grzegorz
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-07T14:58:27Z
dc.date.available2018-12-07T14:58:27Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractRecent research has suggested that emotional sentences are understood by constructing an emotion simulation of the events being described. The present study aims to investigate whether emotion simulation is also involved in online and offline comprehension of larger language segments such as discourse. Participants read a target text describing positive events while their facial postures were manipulated to be either congruent (matching condition) or incongruent (mismatching condition) with emotional valence of the text. In addition, a control condition was included in which participants read the text naturally (without a manipulation of facial posture). The influence of emotion simulation on discourse understanding was assessed by online (self-paced reading times) and offline (verbatim and inference questions) measures of comprehension. The major result was that participants read faster the target text describing positive emotional events while their bodily systems were prepared for processing of positive emotions (matching condition) rather than unprepared (control condition) or prevented from positive emotional processing (mismatching condition). Simulation of positive emotions did not have a significant impact on offline explicit and implicit discourse comprehension. This pattern of results suggests that emotion simulation has an impact on online comprehension, but may not have any effect on offline discourse processing.
dc.identifier.issn0211-2159
dc.identifier.issn1576-8597
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12035
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherUniv Valencia, Dept Metodolgia, Fac. Psicologia
dc.subjectLanguage comprehension
dc.subjectSituation models
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectRecognition
dc.subjectCognition
dc.subjectMotor
dc.subjectOrientation
dc.subjectInferences
dc.subjectSystems
dc.subjectLevel
dc.titleDiscourse comprehension and simulation of positive emotions
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage37
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage17
oaire.citation.titlePsicológica
oaire.citation.volume35
person.familyNameHorchak
person.familyNameGiger
person.givenNameOleksandr
person.givenNameJean-Christophe
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person.identifier301181
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-4184-1741
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