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Université de Fribourg

Emotion inferencesduring reading comprehension: What evidence can the self-pace reading paradigm provide?

Gygax, Pascal ; Tapiero, Isabelle ; Carruzzo, Emanuelle

This paper provides an explanation for the non-specificity of emotion inferences found in previous research (e.g., Gygax, Garnham & Oakhill, 2004). We first demonstrate that behavioral components of emotions, as opposed to emotions per se, are better markers of readers’ mental representations of the main character’s affective status. We also suggest that in a self-paced reading paradigm, when...

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Individual differences and emotional inferences during reading comprehension.

Gillioz, Christelle ; Gygax, Pascal ; Tapiero, Isabelle

This paper investigated readers’ representations of the main protagonist’s emotional status in short narratives, as well as several mental factors that may affect these representations. General and visuo-spatial working memory, empathy and simulation were investigated as potential individual differences in generating emotional inferences. Participants were confronted with narratives...