Unraveling the Mystery About the Negative Valence Bias: Does Arousal Account for Processing Differences in Unpleasant Words?

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC8593103 · PMID 34795616

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The comparison between IN and HU words also showed significant differences between these two sets of words in RTs [ t 1 (28) = 2.95, p = 0.006; t 2 (76) = 1.27, p = 0.207] that were only marginally significant in the error rates analysis [ t 1 (28) = 1.92, p = 0.065; t 2 (76) = 1.90, p = 0.061].

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