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Emotion in Text Comprehension: Do Readers Infer Specific emotions

Gygax, Pascal ; Oakhill, Jane ; Garnham, Alan

This paper argues that emotional inferences about characters in a text are not as specific as previously assumed (Gernsbacher et al., 1992; Gernsbacher and Robertson, 1992; Gernsbacher et al., 1998; DeVega et al., 1996; DeVega et al., 1997). The emotional information inferred by readers does not differentiate between emotions that are similar, though not identical. In both Experiments 1 and 2,...