Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2012-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Emotional valence and physical space: Limits of interaction
Description: According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people associate positive things with the side of space that corresponds to their dominant hand, and negative things with the side corresponding to their non-dominant hand. Our aim was to find out whether this association holds also true for a response time study employing linguistic stimuli, and whether such an association is activated automatically. Four experiments explored this association using positive and negative words. In Exp. 1, right-handers made a lexical judgment by pressing a left or right key. Attention was not explicitly drawn to the valence of the stimuli. No valence-by-side interaction emerged. In Exp. 2 and 3, right-handers and left-handers made a valence judgment by pressing a left or a right key. A valence-by-side interaction emerged: For positive words, responses were faster when participants responded with their dominant hand, whereas for negative words, responses were faster for the non-dominant hand. Exp. 4 required a valence judgment without stating an explicit mapping of valence and side. No valence-by-side interaction emerged. The experiments provide evidence for an association between response side and valence, which, however, does not seem to be activated automatically but rather requires a task with an explicit response mapping to occur.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(2), 375-385  
Author: Irmgard de la Vega and Monica De Filippis and Martin Lachmair and Carolin Dudschig and Barbara Kaup
Maintainer: Irmgard de la Vega <irmgard.delavega@uni-tuebingen.de>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Irmgard", family = "de la Vega", email = "irmgard.delavega@uni-tuebingen.de", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Monica", family = "De Filippis", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Martin", family = "Lachmair", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Carolin", family = "Dudschig", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Barbara", family = "Kaup", role = c("aut")))
Package: de la VegaDe FilippisLachmairDudschigKaup2012
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
