The Role of the Establishment of Causal Connections and the Modality of Presentation of Discourse in the Generation of Emotion Inferences by Argentine College Students.

DE SIMONE, JULIETA; JAZMÍN CEVASCO

Conferencia; 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse; 2021

Society for Text and Discourse

This study examined the role of the causal connectivity of the statements and the modality of presentation of discourse in the generation of emotion inferences. We asked a group of Argentine college students to either listen to or read an excerpt of a radio interview, and to perform an emotions recall task. Statements that promoted thegeneration of emotion inferences and had a high number of causal connections were more often included in the recall protocols than those that had a low number of them.Also, listeners included a higher number of statements than readers.