Suitner, Caterina (2020) Agency, mood and grammar. The role of verbs in managing sadness and its consequent inaction. [Data Collection]
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Action propensity is linked to both mood and grammar: Compared to happiness, sad mood is typically envisaged as impeding agency. On the grammatical side, verbs prompt agency whereas nouns appear associated with lower agency. In two studies, we explored these relations showing that sad mood induced by music (Study 1, N = 98) increased the number of nouns (vs. verbs) in a word generation task. Conversely, when verbs versus nouns were experimentally primed and willingness to engage in actions measured (Study 2, N = 163), the propensity to engage in actions increased among people in a more negative mood. Together, the two patterns of results suggest that verbs may be strategically used to counteract inertia linked to negative mood.
| DOI: |  10.25430/researchdata.cab.unipd.it.00000374 |
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| Keywords: | language, meta-semantic effects, verbs, agency, mood | |||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Social Sciences and Humanities > The Human Mind and Its Complexity: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind > Personality and social cognition; emotion Social Sciences and Humanities > The Human Mind and Its Complexity: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind > Language learning and processing (first and second languages) |
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| Department: | Departments > Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS) | |||||||||||||||
| Depositing User: | Caterina Suitner | |||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2020 17:38 | |||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2020 17:38 | |||||||||||||||
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| Type of data: | Mixed | |||||||||||||||
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| Research funder: | Polish National Science Center | |||||||||||||||
| Research project title: | Model gramatyki społecznej-analiza mechanizmów i zastosowań | |||||||||||||||
| Grant number: | OPUS 14 – 2017/27/B/HS6/01049 | |||||||||||||||
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| Resource language: | Italian and English | |||||||||||||||
| Metadata language: | English | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Research Data Unipd | |||||||||||||||
| Date: | 29 August 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| Copyright holders: | The Author | |||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/id/eprint/374 |
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