Resumen de La réorganisation de l'espace conceptuel au cours des états émotionnels
Nathalie Dalle, Paula M. Niedenthal
The aim of the present research was to replicate and extend to the French- language recent work by Niedenthal and colleagues on the influence of emotional state on the organization of concepts (Niedenthal, Halberstadt, and Innes-Ker, 1999). We propose that emotional states cause a reorganization of the conceptual space such that items associated with the same emotional response are more closely linked. In a first study presented here, film materials were developed for the induction of happy, sad, and neutral states in French participants. A French-language triad task, subsequently used for the assessment of categorization, was developed in a second study. The third study tested and replicated the findings of Niedenthal et al. (1999, Experiment 1), such that individuals in happy and sad states were significantly more likely than neutral- state participants to group concepts together due to their emotional equivalence. Together the present work introduces a viable film induction of emotion and a categorization task for French participants, as well as demonstrates the generalizability of emotional response categorization.
