No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words

Lora I. Dimitrova; Eline M. Vissia; Hanneke Geugies; Hedwig Hofstetter; Sima Chalavi; Antje A. T. S. Reinders

doi:10.1007/s10936-021-09784-1

No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words

Lora I. Dimitrova
, Eline M. Vissia
, Hanneke Geugies
, Hedwig Hofstetter
, Sima Chalavi
, Antje A. T. S. Reinders^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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It is unknown how self-relevance is dependent on emotional salience. Emotional salience encompasses an individual's degree of attraction or aversion to emotionally-valenced information. The current study investigated the interconnection between self and salience through the evaluation of emotional valence and self-relevance. 56 native Dutch participants completed a questionnaire assessing valence, intensity, and self-relevance of 552 Dutch nouns and verbs. One-way repeated-measures ANCOVA investigated the relationship between valence and self, age and gender. Repeated-measures ANCOVA also tested the relationship between valence and self with intensity ratings and effects of gender and age. Results showed a significant main effect of valence for self-relevant words. Intensity analyses showed a main effect of valence but not of self-relevance. There were no significant effects of gender and age. The most important finding presents that self-relevance is dependent on valence. These findings concerning the relationship between self and salience opens avenues to study an individual's self-definition.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Early online date	2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09784-1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Concept of self
Dutch
Self-relevance
Standardized stimulus set
Valence

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