Abstract：Emotion is highly contextual. How emotional words are processed in contexts has become an important issue. Therefore, this paper aimed to review previous studies on the characteristics of emotional words in neutral contexts and the effect of emotional context on emotional word processing. The emotional meaning in neutral contexts is ambiguous and non-constrained. In the early processing of emotional words, the emotional effects are mixed. Emotional information enhances semantic integration and more elaborated or sustained analysis of affective stimuli in the late processing of emotional words. In emotional contexts, when the emotion of contexts and words are congruent, word processing is enhanced, especially in semantic integration and affective evaluations. Moreover, individuals are more likely to predict the emotion of words. When the emotion of contexts and words are conflicted, it is difficult to integrate words into context. Future studies are required to further explore the influence of emotional contexts on emotional word processing, other factors modulating language processing to investigate the cause of different prediction biases, and the influence of complex contexts, such as social, communicative and pragmatic contexts, on emotional information processing.
隋雪，章吟娴，李雨桐. 句子阅读中语境对情绪词加工的影响及其机制[J]. 应用心理学, 2025, 31(1): 78-88.
SUI Xue，ZHANG Yin-xian， LI Yu-tong. The influence of context on emotional word processing and its mechanism during sentence reading. 应用心理学, 2025, 31(1): 78-88.
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