A good tennis player does not lose matches. The effects of valence congruency in processing stance-argument pairs

According to the principle of Argumentative Orientation (AO), speakers and writers adjust their frame choice to the opinion they want to convey and hearers and readers are sensitive to this profile choice. In three reaction time studies (N = 68; N = 97; N = 60) we investigated whether, in line with...

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Published in:PloS one 2019-11, Vol.14 (11), p.e0224481-e0224481
Main Authors: Kamoen, Naomi, Mos, Maria Baukje Johanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Choice Behavior - physiology
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition - physiology
Communication
Experimental psychology
Female
Humans
Judgment - physiology
Judgments
Language
Male
Markedness
Memory
Physical Sciences
Reaction Time
Research and Analysis Methods
Semantics
Social psychology
Social Sciences
Tennis
Tennis players
Words (language)
Young Adult
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Summary:According to the principle of Argumentative Orientation (AO), speakers and writers adjust their frame choice to the opinion they want to convey and hearers and readers are sensitive to this profile choice. In three reaction time studies (N = 68; N = 97; N = 60) we investigated whether, in line with AO, stance-argument pairs congruent in valence are easier to process and to verify than incongruent pairs. Second, we tested whether, in line with predictions from the Markedness Principle (MP), positive congruent pairs are easier to process than negative congruent pairs. In line with AO, participants made faster and more accurate judgments of congruent pairs than of incongruent pairs. This effect was observed when controlling for word length and word frequency, and occurred irrespective of the distance between the evaluative word in the stance and argument. No unambiguous effect of Markedness was found.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0224481