title: Emotionality of words as related to vividness of imagery and concreteness.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Marcos
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: González
mesh_terms: 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