Can valence and origin of emotional words influence the assessments of ambiguous stimuli in terms of warmth or competence?

ABSTRACT: People tend to think that emotions influence the way they think in a spectacular way. We wanted to determine whether it is possible to prime the assessments of ambiguous stimuli by presenting emotion-laden words. We did not expect the differences in assessments that depend only on the emotional factors to be particularly large. Participants were presented with words differing in valence and origin of an affective state, but aligned for arousal, concreteness, length and frequency of use. Their first task was to remember a word. While keeping the word in mind, their second task was to guess by intuition whether the symbol was related to certain traits. Participants assessed objects represented by coding symbols on the scales of warmth or competence. We expected positive valence and automatic

SUBMITTER: Imbir KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7845528 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature