The affect‐as‐information framework posits that affect is embodied information about value
and importance. The valence dimension of affect provides evaluative information about …

The study presented here provides researchers with a revised list of affective German words,
the Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). This work is an extension of the …

Lexical decisions to high-and low-arousal negative words and to low-arousal neutral and
positive words were examined in an event-related potentials (ERP) study. Reaction times to …

Background: Frequency of occurrence is a strong predictor of lexical processing across
modalities and experimental paradigms. However, frequency is part of a large set of …

Although taboo words are used to study emotional memory and attention, no easily
accessible normative data are available that compare taboo, emotionally valenced, and …

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one
critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response …

Taboo stimuli are highly arousing, but it has been suggested that they also have inherent
taboo-specific properties such as tabooness, offensiveness, or shock value. Prior studies …

Аннотация Представлен систематический обзор публикаций, описывающих
современные психологические исследования с использованием математического …

Emotions play an important role in human communication, and the daily-life interactions of
young children often include situations that require the verbalization of emotional states with …

Selective attention biases are believed to be one of the cognitive vulnerabilities to
depression. This study examined two types of attention biases, namely attention facilitation …