Lexical Properties and Cognitive Processing Differences Between the Violent Words and Emotional Words
Violent words are related to emotional words,but the traditional dimensions describing the lexical properties of emotional words may not capture the key properties of violent words.In addition,it is unclear how violent words differ from emotional words in cognitive processing and whether this difference shows itself differently across experimental tasks.Study 1 examined the differences in lexical properties between violent words and emotional words through a lexical rating task.The results showed that,compared to emotional words,violent words had lower scores of pleasure,dominance,tendency,and familiarity,and higher scores of arousal,aggression,and injury.The results of the principal component factor analysis further showed that socio-emotional properties and arousal were the two more integrated indicators for evaluating and distinguishing violent words from emotional words.Study 2 explored the cognitive processing differences between violent words and emotional words through a lexical judgment task and a category judgment task.The results showed that cognitive processing of violent words and emotional words differed in response time,and were moderated by the experimental task.Combining the results of the two studies,it is evident that violent words differ from emotional words in both lexical properties and cognitive processing,suggesting the specificity of violent words.The proposed two-dimensional model of violent words based on the two-dimensional model of emotions helps to explain the specificity of violent words better.
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