Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility.

ABSTRACT: Children are often instructed to "use their words" to communicate their emotions, which requires them to quickly access words that best describe their feelings. Adults vary in their ability to bring both nonemotion and emotion words to mind (two capacities called verbal fluency and emotion fluency). However, no studies have examined how emotion fluency emerges across development, despite the fact that mastering emotion language is an important developmental task. A cross-sectional sample of participants aged 4-25 years (N = 194) generated as many fruit words as possible in 60 s (to measure verbal fluency) and as many emotion words as possible in 60 s (to measure emotion fluency). Emotion fluency was highly correlated with verbal fluency, and both showed similar increases acro

SUBMITTER: Valdivia-Moreno CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12259377 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature