2024/03/21 by Veronica Diveica, Emiko J. Muraki, Richard J. Binney +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Cultural Differences and Values #Social and Intergroup Psychology
paper · doi:10.1037/xlm0001328
, influences lexical-semantic processing. In Study 1, across a series of item-level regression analyses, we found that (a) socialness can facilitate responses in lexical, semantic, and memory tasks, and (b) limited evidence for an interaction of socialness with concreteness. In Studies 2-3, we tested the preregistered hypothesis that social words, compared to nonsocial words, will be associated with faster and more accurate responses during a syntactic classification task. We found that socialness has a facilitatory effect on noun decisions (Study 3), but not verb decisions (Study 2). Overall, our results suggest that the socialness of a word affects lexical-semantic processing but also that this is task-dependent. These findings constitute novel evidence in support of proposals that social information is an important dimension of semantic representation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).