The emotional valence classification positive, negative, or neutral of all of the words corresponded to that of the equivalent English language words. The participants were from both mainland China and Hong Kong, thus the words can be applied to adolescents familiar with either simplified e.
We also established eight words with negative valence, high threat, and high arousal ratings to facilitate future research, especially on attentional and memory biases among individuals prone to anxiety.
Thus, the new emotional word list provides a useful source of information for affective research in the Chinese language.
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Recent studies have provided unequivocal evidence that emotion and cognitive processes are closely coupled [ 1 ]. Various experimental paradigms have been developed to examine how stimuli with emotional content influence cognition. The dot probe task [ 2 ] and the emotional Stroop task [ 3 ] are most frequently used for investigating attentional processes.
