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Why Doesn't Negative Behave? Inferences From Emotional Language, Adriana Ariza, Connie Shears, Maisy Lam, Amy Cohen, Melissa Bond, Mackenzie Smith, Erika Sam, Jay Kim
Why Doesn't Negative Behave? Inferences From Emotional Language, Adriana Ariza, Connie Shears, Maisy Lam, Amy Cohen, Melissa Bond, Mackenzie Smith, Erika Sam, Jay Kim
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
Emotional language appears to support the inference process in a hierarchical nature (Shears, et al., 2011). However, Nasrallah, Carmel and Lavie (2009) suggest that the negative valence should be primary in supporting inferences because it is survival based. Further, Gygax, Garnham and Oakhill (2004) claim the importance of context is critical when readers are processing emotional language. Here, we extend previous findings using two sentence pairs, by examining longer, more natural story contexts. Similarly, we hypothesized that if emotional language supports the formation of causal inferences, then positive stories should cause more false alarms to inference-related target words than negative …
Language And Cooperation In Hominin Scavenging, Bart J. Wilson, Samuel R. Harris
Language And Cooperation In Hominin Scavenging, Bart J. Wilson, Samuel R. Harris
ESI Working Papers
Bickerton (2009, 2014) hypothesizes that language emerged as the solution to a scavenging problem faced by proto‐humans. We design a virtual world to explore how people use words to persuade others to work together for a common end. By gradually reducing the vocabularies that the participants can use, we trace the process of solving the hominin scavenging problem. Our experiment changes the way we think about social dilemmas. Instead of asking how does a group overcome the selfinterest of its constituents, the question becomes, how do constituents persuade one another to work together for a common end that yields a …