The articles in this special issue take an important step in beginning to test the PET
framework. Together, these articles illustrate the importance of considering individual …

In our current era, learners are confronted with many and varying sources of information,
such as news media, books, websites, social media, scientific articles, communicative …

Comprehension models do not often account for the multifaceted and emotionally charged
nature of reading in real-world settings. In addition, studies of how reader emotions …

This paper provides an explanation for the nonspecificity of emotion inferences found in
previous research [eg, Language and Cognitive Processes, 19 (5), 613–638, 2004]. We first …

Reading texts can prompt intense emotions, and these emotions profoundly influence
learning from texts. I first discuss the findings from the eight studies reported in this special …

Emotion effects in reading have typically been investigated by manipulating words'
emotional valence and arousal in lexical decision. The standard finding is that valence and …

Cognitive psychology and cognitive science have only recently come to acknowledge that
human beings are not “pure” cognitive systems, and that emotions may be more than simply …

Reading texts can prompt intense emotions, and these emotions profoundly influence
learning from texts. I first discuss the findings from the eight studies reported in this special …

Emotional words have consistently been shown to be processed differently than neutral
words. However, few studies have examined individual variability in emotion word …

Emotion effects on cognition have often been reported. However, only few studies
investigated emotional effects on subsequent language processing, and in most cases these …