Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words
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In this study, we compared affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020), and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). We did not observe a significant change in average valence or arousal ratings across time points. A more detailed look into the data revealed the change in arousal that was different across the valence values. An increase in their linear correlations and a decrease in the nonlinearity of the GAMM smooth demonstrated that, upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, emotionally negative words elicited higher arousal ratings, whereas emotionally positive words elicited lower arousal ratings. It revealed that our participants became more sensitive to the negative content and less sensitive to the positive content. Our results add to the findings, which showed that the relationship between emotional valence and arousal is a func...tion of contextual factors, which primarily influence the arousal of words.
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arousal / COVID-19 / emotional valence / lexical norms / wordsИзвор:
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023, 1-21Издавач:
- Cambridge University Press
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (grant: “Humans and Society in Times of Crisis”)
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- Supplemental Materials osf.io/cfq8n/ Preprint DOI 10.31234/osf.io/zxy72
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Popović Stijačić, Milica AU - Mišić, Ksenija AU - Filipović Đurđević, Dušica PY - 2023 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5124 AB - In this study, we compared affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020), and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). We did not observe a significant change in average valence or arousal ratings across time points. A more detailed look into the data revealed the change in arousal that was different across the valence values. An increase in their linear correlations and a decrease in the nonlinearity of the GAMM smooth demonstrated that, upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, emotionally negative words elicited higher arousal ratings, whereas emotionally positive words elicited lower arousal ratings. It revealed that our participants became more sensitive to the negative content and less sensitive to the positive content. Our results add to the findings, which showed that the relationship between emotional valence and arousal is a function of contextual factors, which primarily influence the arousal of words. PB - Cambridge University Press T2 - Applied Psycholinguistics T1 - Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words EP - 21 SP - 1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000425 ER -
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Popović Stijačić, M., Mišić, K.,& Filipović Đurđević, D.. (2023). Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words. in Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press., 1-21. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000425
Popović Stijačić M, Mišić K, Filipović Đurđević D. Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words. in Applied Psycholinguistics. 2023;:1-21. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000425 .
Popović Stijačić, Milica, Mišić, Ksenija, Filipović Đurđević, Dušica, "Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words" in Applied Psycholinguistics (2023):1-21, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000425 . .