The direction of affective priming as a function of trait anxiety when naming target words with regular and irregular pronunciation
Results from an affective priming experiment confirm the previously reported influence of trait anxiety on the direction of affective priming in the naming task (Maier, Berner, & Pekrun, 2003): On trials in which extremely valenced primes appeared, positive affective priming reversed into negati...
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Published in | Experimental psychology Vol. 51; no. 3; p. 180 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Germany
01.01.2004
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Summary: | Results from an affective priming experiment confirm the previously reported influence of trait anxiety on the direction of affective priming in the naming task (Maier, Berner, & Pekrun, 2003): On trials in which extremely valenced primes appeared, positive affective priming reversed into negative affective priming with increasing levels of trait anxiety. Using valenced target words with irregular pronunciation did not have the expected effect of increasing the extent to which semantic processes play a role in naming, as affective priming effects were not stronger for irregular targets than for regular targets. This suggests the predominant operation of a whole-word nonsemantic pathway in reading aloud in German. Data from neutral priming trials hint at the possibility that negative affective priming in participants high in trait anxiety is due to inhibition of congruent targets. |
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ISSN: | 1618-3169 |
DOI: | 10.1027/1618-3169.51.3.180 |