The Influence Of Expression Manipulation On Emotional Concept Processing

With the trend of embodied cognition thought from the theoretical research into the field of empirical research,traditional psychological facts in various fields ushered in a lot of new theoretical explanation,in emotion psychology is the sight of embodiment of the emotional concept.In the process of people dealing with emotional concepts,the emotional effect is how to specifically affect the concept of emotional processing,the abstraction of the emotional characteristics of the body,Concepts and specific concepts of the processing of what impact,this is the study of the issues that we want to focus on.In addition,this study supports the theory of Semantic Representation of semantic representations to explain the representation of abstract concepts.In view of the above problems,this study examines how the specific effects of expression manipulation affect the processing of emotional concepts by influencing emotions.Experiment 1 and Experiment 3 use the classic facial expression control paradigm(Strack et al.,1988;Havas et al.,2007;Niedenthal,2007)to trigger the embodiment effects of emotion processing.In this study,we consider only the emotional dimension of valence,but do not consider the emotional dimension of arousal.Emotional nouns are divided into positive and concrete words,negative and concrete words,positive and abstract words,negative and abstract words.In the experiment 1,the subjects will have the simulation of the concept of processing emotions,verify the rationality of the emotional concept,the experiment using the composite design,the independent variables for the vocabulary titer(positive valence words,negative valence words)and expression control(Teeth bite pen,lips bite pen),the dependent variable for the reaction time.In the experiment 2,we study the concreteness effect of the word in the process of processing the concept of emotion,and verify the ubiquitous effect of the vocabulary specific effect under different emotional valence.The experiment uses the internal design of the experiment,the independent variable is the vocabulary valence(positive valenceword,negative valence word)and vocabulary concrete abstractions(concrete words,abstract words),the dependent variable is the reaction time.The experimental 3examines the effects of different valence emotions that affect the concrete abstraction of the subject.The experiments are based on the composite design.The independent variables are vocabulary valence(positive and negative terms).Abstract(concrete words,abstract words)and expression manipulation(teeth bite pen,lips bite pen),the dependent variable for the reaction time.The main conclusions of this study are as follows.1.People will produce emotional simulation when processing emotional concept,individual understanding the emotional words is affected by the expression controlling.2.The processing of emotional words does not affect the concreteness of words.The effects of concreteness and emotional valence have no interaction.The processing of different valence words does not affect the effects of concreteness.3.The expression manipulation may affect the effects of concreteness through the emotion.The result is that the expression manipulation promotes the processing of the abstract words and eliminates the effects of concreteness.But this effect is not specific through the emotional valence dimension,may be through the emotional arousal dimension to adjust the effects of concreteness.The significance of this study is to support the Embodied Theory of Semantic Representation,indicating when the emotional information is sufficiently,the abstract concept will be understand more quickly,the effects of concreteness is disappear.Emotional information is essential for people to understand concepts.