Mood Detection in Ambiguous Messages: The Interaction Between Text and Emoticons.

ABSTRACT: Face-to-face communication has several sources of contextual information that enables language comprehension. This information is used, for instance, to perceive mood of interlocutors, clarifying ambiguous messages. However, these contextual cues are absent in text-based communication. Emoticons have been proposed as cues used to stress the emotional intentions on this channel of communication. Most studies have suggested that their role is to contribute to a more accurate perception of emotions. Nevertheless, it is not clear if their influence on disambiguation is independent of their emotional valence and its interaction with text message valence. In the present study, we designed an emotional congruence paradigm, where participants read a set of messages composed by a positive or negati

SUBMITTER: Aldunate N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893907 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature