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To evaluate how emotional arousal across positive and negative valence types influences lexical decision latencies throughout the adult lifespan.

August 16, 2026Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

EXPRESS: Emotional Arousal Effects in Visual Word Recognition Across Valence Types: Evidence from an Age-Continuous Sample of Korean Adults

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JTJini TaeGwangju Institute of Science and Technology JKJinwon KangGwangju Institute of Science and Technology MLMatthew W. LowderUniversity of Richmond

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals emotional arousal accelerates negative word recognition across younger and middle-aged adults, highlighting lifespan changes in affective language processing.

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To evaluate how emotional arousal across positive and negative valence types influences lexical decision latencies throughout the adult lifespan.
Analyzed lexical decision latencies for 1,544 emotionally salient words from the Korean Lexicon Project 2 dataset.
Evaluated web-based performance data from N=2,473 native Korean speakers aged 20 to 69 years, modeling age-by-arousal interactions separately for positive and negative words.
Emotional arousal facilitated word recognition latencies for negative valence words, whereas no arousal facilitation occurred for positive words.
The arousal effect for negative words was moderated by age: participants aged 20 to 59 responded faster to high-arousal negative words, whereas participants in their 60s showed no arousal-based difference in response times.

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Tae et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8179cbf2fb91fc834ad1d6 https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218261481507

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals emotional arousal accelerates negative word recognition across younger and middle-aged adults, highlighting lifespan changes in affective language processing.

EXPRESS: Emotional Arousal Effects in Visual Word Recognition Across Valence Types: Evidence from an Age-Continuous Sample of Korean Adults

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EXPRESS: Emotional Arousal Effects in Visual Word Recognition Across Valence Types: Evidence from an Age-Continuous Sample of Korean Adults

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