Year: 2005
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: To study pre-adolescents’ knowledge of emotion concepts, and whether emotion categories are conceptually organized around \nprototypes (e.g., Rosch, 1975), 297 children, aged 10 to 14 – were asked to perform two tasks: a) free listing of emotion terms, and b) situation-emotion matching, i.e., identifying what emotion a character feels in a situation (that was described by a sentence). Freelisting and matching data were carefully analyzed with regard to: i) distinct emotion types that were produced, ii) specificity of \nproduced terms, iii) nature of cited emotions. The results showed that pre-adolescents have a quite extended knowledge of emotion \nconcepts, and a complex conceptualization of the relation between situations and emotion-terms - even when considering typical \nsituations only. The results showed that emotion concepts, and emotional episodes are understood in terms of a conceptual framework characterized by the two dimensions of pleasure (or valence) and activation; a third dimension further differentiated among their situationally-specified emotion concepts.
Authors: Cristina Galli, Gennaro Romagnoli, Vanda Zammuner
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767800446