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标题：The Berlin Affective Word List for Children (kidBAWL): Exploring Processing of Affective Lexical Semantics in the Visual and Auditory Modalities
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作者：Sylvester, Teresa ; Braun, Mario ; Schmidtke, David 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2016
卷号：7
页码：969-979
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00969
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：While research on affective word processing in adults witnesses increasing interest, the present paper looks at another group of participants that have been neglected so far: pupils (age range: 6 – 12 years). Introducing a variant of the Berlin Affective Wordlist (BAWL) especially adapted for children of that age group, the ‘kidBAWL’, we examined to what extent pupils process affective lexical semantics similarly to adults. In three experiments using rating and valence decision tasks in both the visual and auditory modality, it was established that children show the two ubiquitous phenomena observed in adults with emotional word material: the asymmetric U-shaped function relating valence to arousal ratings, and the inversely U-shaped function relating response times to valence decision latencies. The results for both modalities show large structural similarities between pupil and adult data (taken from previous studies) indicating that in the present age range, the affective lexicon and the dynamic interplay between language and emotion is already well developed. Differential effects show that younger children tend to choose less extreme ratings than older children and that rating latencies decrease with age. Overall, our study should help to develop more realistic models of word recognition and reading that include affective processes and offer a methodology for exploring the roots of pleasant literary experiences and ludic reading.
关键词：BAWL; kidBAWL; Panksepp; Jakobson hypothesis; Valence; Arousal; emotion; affective semantics; Negativity bias; positivity superiority effect