The automatic activation of emotion words measured using the emotional face-word Stroop task in late Chinese-English bilinguals.
In the current study, late Chinese-English bilinguals performed a facial expression identification task with emotion words in the task-irrelevant dimension, in either their first language (L1) or second language (L2). The investigation examined the automatic access of the emotional content in words appearing in more than one language. Significant congruency effects were present for both L1 and L2 emotion word processing. Furthermore, the magnitude of emotional face-word Stroop effect in the L1 task was greater as compared to the L2 task, indicating that in L1 participants could access the emotional information in words in a more reliable manner. In summary, these findings provide more support for the automatic access of emotional information in words in the bilinguals' two languages as well as attenuated emotionality of L2 processing.
a National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University , Beijing , People's Republic of China.
Lin
L
Fan
b Department of Psychology , Ningbo University , Ningbo , People's Republic of China.
Qiang
Q
Xu
c College of Foreign Language and Literature, Ningbo University , Ningbo , People's Republic of China.
Xiaoxi
X
Wang
d Department of English , Qingdao University of Science and Technology , Gaomi , People's Republic of China.
Fei
F
Xu
b Department of Psychology , Ningbo University , Ningbo , People's Republic of China.
Yaping
Y
Yang
e Collaborative Innovation Center for Language Research and Services, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , Guangzhou , People's Republic of China.
Zhi
Z
Lu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D057190:Stroop Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
Automatic access; congruency effects; emotion word; emotional Stroop task; emotional face-word Stroop task