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dc.contributor.authorPlanchuelo, Clara
dc.contributor.authorBaciero, Ana
dc.contributor.authorHinojosa, José Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPerea, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorDunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-09T09:09:09Z
dc.date.available2022-11-09T09:09:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-22
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered our routines, our conversations, the specific social contexts in which we hear or use certain words, and potentially, the representation of the words related to the disease and its consequences. Here we investigated whether the effects of the pandemic have changed the representation of the affective features of COVID-19-related words. To this aim, we collected new ratings of valence (from unpleasant to pleasant) and arousal (from calm to activated) dimensions for COVID-19-related words (e.g., hospital) and COVID-19-unrelated words (e.g., whale). Subsequently, we compared these scores with those from databases that reported ratings for the same pool of words before the pandemic. Our results showed significant changes in arousal for COVID-19-related words but not unrelated words, thus revealing that the pandemic social context modified their affective representation. These findings support the flexibility of emotional representations and the malleability and dynamicity of the mental lexicon as a function of contextual factors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPlanchuelo, Baciero, Hinojosa, Perea, Dunabeitia Landaburu JA. Social context effects on emotional language: The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional evaluation of words. Acta Psychologica. 2022;229:1-9en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2044936
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103686
dc.identifier.issn0001-6918
dc.identifier.issn1873-6297
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/27309
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalActa Psychologica
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleSocial context effects on emotional language: The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional evaluation of wordsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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