Emotionality of words as related to vividness of imagery and concreteness.
We investigated the association of the imagery and concreteness of words on their emotionality. Emotionality was evaluated on the basis of skin conductance. A total of 61 subjects (all university students) rated the vividness of imagery and concreteness of the words in a list of 25 word pairs. Each pair was comprised of one abstract word and one concrete word with a related meaning, e.g., "friendship" and "friend," thereby controlling meaning. The skin-conductance response of each word was measured subsequently from these same subjects. Our results show that both imagery and concreteness were significantly related to emotionality.
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University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Marcos
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González
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D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior