Sunday, October 25, 2009

Perhaps Not That Clearly Valenced

From a review article:

"Participants then categorized a variety of clearly valenced [i.e. obviously positive or negative] words (e.g. "poison" or "gift") as pleasant or unpleasant..."

Let's hope this was done among a non-German-speaking sample.

2 comments:

rvman said...

I have to say, it took a couple of minutes on Google for me to figure this one out. Major coincidence, assuming the researcher writing this didn't know what he was saying.

Sally said...

I forget that not everyone has the story of Tante Inge and the nut flavored ice cream seared -- seared -- on their memory:

Tante Inge says she doesn't want any of the Nuss Eis and her nephew asks, "Ist Eis denn Gift?"