Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons

Autor/inn/en	Morera, Yurena; León, José A.; Escudero, Inmaculada; de Vega, Manuel
Titel	Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 54 (2017) 8, S.583-598 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2015.1137445
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Psychology; Visual Stimuli; Emotional Response; Visual Aids; Comprehension; Causal Models; Statistical Analysis; Spanish Speaking; Expectation; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Psychologie; Emotionales Verhalten; Anschauungsmaterial; Verstehen; Verständnis; Kausalanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Expectancy; Erwartung; Spanien
Abstract	Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or concessive connective ("'Because/Although' the pupil studied a lot…"), followed by an emotional icon (emoticon), which could match or mismatch the emotional valence of the antecedent. In Experiment 1 participants had to choose the best continuation for the antecedent clause ("he passed" vs. "he failed" the exam) and then identify the emoticon previously shown. In Experiment 2 they had to judge a perceptual feature of the emoticon before performing the consequent choice task. For causal connectives the congruence between the antecedent and the emoticon valence facilitates the consequent choice task (Experiment 1 and Experiment 2) and the emoticon recognition task (Experiment 1) but not the early perceptual judgment task (Experiment 2). This means that causal connectives promote emotional valence continuity at the stage of meaning integration processes. By contrast, concessive connectives do not induce emotional continuity expectancies. In addition, performance in causal positive antecedents and in concessive negative antecedents was more efficient than in the contrasting conditions, suggesting strong emotional biases for these connectives. (As Provided).
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