Baumgartner, Lucien and Willemsen, Pascale and Reuter, Kevin (2022) The polarity effect of evaluative language. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Recent research on thick terms like 'rude' and 'friendly' has revealed a polarity effect, according to which the evaluative content of positive thick terms like 'friendly' and 'courageous' can be more easily cancelled than the evaluative content of negative terms like 'rude' and 'selfish'. In this paper, we study the polarity effect in greater detail. We first demonstrate that the polarity effect is insensitive to manipulations of embeddings (Study 1). Second, we show that the effect occurs not only for thick terms but also for thin terms such as 'good' or 'bad' (Study 2). We conclude that the polarity effect is indicative of a pervasive linguistic asymmetry that holds between positive and negative evaluative terms.
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Keywords: | polarity effect; thick terms; thin terms; evaluative language; moral judgments; praise; blame | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Kevin Reuter | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2022 05:16 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2022 05:16 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 20146 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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Date: | 24 January 2022 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20146 |
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