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Visually mediated valence effects in dialogue: an explorative study

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Summary, in English

This is an exploratory study investigating potential effects of emotional valence in images and their influence on conversation in the presence of the images. We used latent-semantic analysis to generalize valence ratings of Swedish words to a corpus of spoken conversations. Each utterance in the conversation was given a valence rating, which represented how emotionally positive or emotionally negative the utterance was. We found no effects that indicate that valenced images have an effect on conversations. However, we find that valenced images in general, and positive images in particular, were considered more helpful by the participants who engaged in the conversations. Additionally, we find no results that interlocutors align over time in their use of valenced language.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

1-16

Publication/Series

Lund University Cognitive Studies

Volume

151

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Lund University Cognitive Studies

Topic

  • Language Technology (Computational Linguistics)
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Psychology

Keywords

  • valence
  • emotions
  • communication
  • dialogue
  • alignment
  • latent semantic analysis

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1101-8453