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Emoticon and Text Production in First and Second Languages in Informal Text Communication
Putting culture back into acculturation: Identifying and overcoming gaps in the definition and measurement of acculturation
People's Active Emotion Vocabulary. Free listing of Emotion Labels and their Association to Salient Psychological Variables
The study is on the \u2019working emotion vocabulary\u2019, i.e., words easily accessed when people are asked to list emotions. Participants (N 1146, 65.9% women, 15-30 year-olds), in an on-line task, listed 621 distinct words; 21 words were listed by 10%-65% (including joy, happiness, sadness, fear, anger, by 50% at least), 93 by 2%-9% (not including \u2019errors\u2019, e.g., naming eliciting events), 507 by 1%. In sum, most listed words did refer to emotions and showed great variability. Women supplied more \u2019Correct\u2019 Emotion Words (CEW) than men. The active (CEW) and the \u2019passive\u2019 vocabulary (e.g., ability to recognize synonyms of emotion targets) were uncorrelated. Production of negative (4,95) and positive (3,76) CEW was significantly associated with emotion-related abilities and traits \u2013 e.g., recognition of facial expressions of emotions, expressive transparency, awareness of emotions, life satisfaction, loneliness, alexithymia and health. The results have implications for emotion communication and understandin