The role of emotionality in the acquisition of new concrete and abstract words.

Front Psychol · 2015 · PMC4497307 · PMID 26217289

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approached significancep = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Furthermore, the difference between positive and neutral words approached significance ( p = 0.07).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.09so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Furthermore, although there was a trend for positive abstract words to be better translated than neutral ones, this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.09).

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