An experimental study of gender-related differences in the perception of Russian emotional verbs
In cognitive linguistics, gender studies of the verbal and nonverbal emotional stimuli processing are actively conducted. Most of these works are presented in English, while the perception and processing of emotional Russian words in this aspect remains poorly studied. The article presents the results of a study aimed at identifying the factors affecting the processing of Russian verbs with different types of emotional evaluation by men and women. The hypothesis is tested that the cognitive processing of Russian verbs by men and women can be influenced by both individual factors and their combination: (1) the type of emotional evaluation, (2) the type of referential correlation of the stimulus, (3) contextual influence. The study uses the method of behavioral psycholinguistic experiments with the PsychoPy software; an emotive decision task is performed. The research material used as linguistic stimulus material was 25 positive, 25 negative, and 25 neutral verbs from the dictionaries Alphabet of Emotions: Dictionary-Thesaurus of Emotive Vocabulary and Large Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Verbs by L.G. Babenko. As primes, which were used to create an external emotional context, 25 negative and 25 positive images from the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies were selected. The experiment involved 102 people (52 men, 50 women). As a result of statistical analysis, it was revealed that the speed of processing emotional verbs in the Russian language is influenced by both individual factors (subject's gender, type of emotional evaluation, type of referential correlation, verb form) and a set of factors in their interactions: (1) differences were found in the perception of the combination of negative semantics of prime with a word with a positive emotional assessment: women processed incongruent positive stimuli significantly longer (P <0.001), compared with men for whom the type of prime had no significant effect on reaction time; (2) the interaction of the factors of the subject's gender and type of referential correlation of the stimulus was revealed in the processing of verbs in the present tense in the first person singular, but these effects were not found in the processing of other grammatical forms; (3) the influence of a combination of the factors of the subject's gender, referential correlation, and type of emotional assessment was also found (women processed emotional words with a positive type of valence and a male referent significantly longer, and men processed emotional words with a positive type of valence and a female referent, P <0.05). It is assumed that the complex nature of gender is fully realized only when it interacts with other factors. It is planned to conduct new experiments with the introduction of additional factors and the use of new stimulus material. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Keywords
gender,
emotionality,
emotional evaluation,
experimental research,
cognitive word processingAuthors
| Ivankova Ksenia S. | National Research Tomsk State University | senya.gl@mail.ru |
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