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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...