The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing

published Online First September 7, 2015

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Autores: Ivaz, Lela, Costa, Albert, Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/20522
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Palabra clave:emotional attachment
self-bias
foreign-language effect
emotional distance
PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
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spelling The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language ProcessingIvaz, LelaCosta, AlbertDuñabeitia, Jon Andoniemotional attachmentself-biasforeign-language effectemotional distancePSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTALpublished Online First September 7, 2015Native languages are acquired in emotionally rich contexts, whereas foreign languages are typically acquired in emotionally neutral academic environments. As a consequence of this difference, it has been suggested that bilinguals’ emotional reactivity in foreign-language contexts is reduced as compared with native language contexts. In the current study, we investigated whether this emotional distance associated with foreign languages could modulate automatic responses to self-related linguistic stimuli. Self-related stimuli enhance performance by boosting memory, speed, and accuracy as compared with stimuli unrelated to the self (the so-called self-bias effect). We explored whether this effect depends on the language context by comparing self-biases in a native and a foreign language. Two experiments were conducted with native Spanish speakers with a high level of English proficiency in which they were asked to complete a perceptual matching task during which they associated simple geometric shapes (circles, squares, and triangles) with the labels “you,” “friend,” and “other” either in their native or foreign language. Results showed a robust asymmetry in the self-bias in the native- and foreign-language contexts: A larger self-bias was found in the native than in the foreign language. An additional control experiment demonstrated that the same materials administered to a group of native English speakers yielded robust self-bias effects that were comparable in magnitude to the ones obtained with the Spanish speakers when tested in their native language (but not in their foreign language). We suggest that the emotional distance evoked by the foreign-language contexts caused these differential effects across language contexts. These results demonstrate that the foreign-language effects are pervasive enough to affect automatic stages of emotional processing.This research has been partially funded by Grants PSI2012-32123 from the Spanish Government, ERC-AdG-295362 grant from the European Research Council, and by the AThEME project funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (Grant 613465).Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition201720172016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/20522reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2012-32123/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/ERC-2011-ADG-295362info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/SFP7/FP-SSH-2013-1http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/xlm/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© 2015 American Psychological Associationoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/205222026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
title The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
spellingShingle The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
Ivaz, Lela
emotional attachment
self-bias
foreign-language effect
emotional distance
PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
title_short The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
title_full The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
title_fullStr The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
title_full_unstemmed The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
title_sort The Emotional Impact of Being Myself: Emotions and Foreign-Language Processing
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ivaz, Lela
Costa, Albert
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
author Ivaz, Lela
author_facet Ivaz, Lela
Costa, Albert
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
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author2 Costa, Albert
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv emotional attachment
self-bias
foreign-language effect
emotional distance
PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
topic emotional attachment
self-bias
foreign-language effect
emotional distance
PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
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