Abstract

BARREYRO, Juan Pablo; MOLINARI MAROTTO, Carlos; YOMHA CEVASCO, Jazmín  and  DUARTE, Dionisio Aníbal. The generation of emotional inferences during the reading of narratives. Anu. investig. [online]. 2008, vol.15. ISSN 1851-1686.

The purpose of this study was to examine the generation of emotional inferences during the reading of narratives. Two experiments were run with this purpose. In Experiment 1, 24 participants read two German fables, and performed a lexical decision task. In order to perform this task, the texts were interrupted at predetermined points, and participants were presented with target words that represented emotional inferences in two conditions: immediately before or immediately after the sentences that required the reader to activate this concept. In Experiment 2, 16 participants read the same sentences used in Experiment 1, but in isolation. After reading each isolated sentence, participants performed the lexical decision task. Results from both experiments indicated that readers do generate emotional inferences, activating their background knowledge when the text demands it to obtain sufficient explanation for the described events.

Keywords : Reading; Emotional inferences; Narrative texts.

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