Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Linguistics May Be Clue To Emotions, According To Penn State Research

Words may be a clue to how people, regardless of their language, think about and process emotions, according to a Penn State researcher. People know more negative emotion words than positive or neutral words. The proportion of words was 50 percent negative, 30 percent positive and 20 percent neutral," says Schrauf. "The cognitive explanation is that we process negative and positive emotions in two channels.

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