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Published in: Cognitive Processing 3/2023

Open Access 14-07-2023 | Research Article

Japanese written pseudowords can be conditioned to Japanese spoken words with positive, negative, and active emotions

Authors: Misa Ando, Toshimune Kambara

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Issue 3/2023

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Abstract

This study aimed to examine whether Japanese participants condition spoken words’ meanings to written pseudowords. In Survey 1, we selected spoken words associated with negative (α = .91) and positive (α = .79) features for Experiment 1 and passive (α = .90) and active (α = .80) features for Experiment 2. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated four written pseudowords’ emotional valence using a 7-point semantic differential scale (1: negative; 7: positive) before and after conditioning spoken words with negative, neutral, or positive features to each pseudoword. In the conditioning phase, participants read each pseudoword, listened to a spoken word, and verbally repeated each spoken word. The results showed that a pseudoword was conditioned to spoken words with positive and negative features. In Experiment 2, participants evaluated four pseudowords’ activeness using a 7-point semantic differential scale (1: passive; 7: active) before and after conditioning spoken words of passive, neutral, and active features to each written pseudoword. In the conditioning phase, the participants read each written pseudoword, listened to a spoken word, and repeated the spoken word. The results showed that the activeness evaluations were more increased for pseudowords conditioned to spoken words of active and neutral features after conditioning than before conditioning but were unchanged for a pseudoword conditioned to those with passive features before and after conditioning. Additonally, Survey 2’s results showed that although the positiveness and activeness responses of the words used in Experiments 1 and 2 were controlled well, the lack of significant differences among positiveness responses of words may influence the evaluative conditioning in Experiment 2. That is, when participants condition passive (low arousal) words’ activeness (arousal) ratings to those of pseudowords, words’ positiveness (valence) ratings would be important in the evaluative conditioning. Our findings suggest that participants can condition spoken word meanings of preference and activeness to those of written pseudowords. It also indicates that linguistically evaluative conditioning’s effects are robust in a non-alphabetic language.

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Metadata
Title
Japanese written pseudowords can be conditioned to Japanese spoken words with positive, negative, and active emotions
Authors
Misa Ando
Toshimune Kambara
Publication date
14-07-2023
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Cognitive Processing / Issue 3/2023
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01138-0

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