The role of valence and origin of emotions in emotional categorization task for words

Emotional meaning of words can be defined in terms of a few factors, including traditionally investigated valence and arousal, as well as recently proposed emotional origin. The emotional origin is a dimension spanned by the concepts of automatic vs. reflective emergence of an emotion. This article presents the results of an investigation focused on the role of valence and emotional origin of word connotations for moderately arousing verbal...