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The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech (2024)
Journal Article
Desai, S., Bailey, K., & Filik, R. (2024). The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech. Cognition and Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2412611

Figurative expressions are commonly used in everyday language as a device for conveying emotion. Hyperbole (e.g., “It took ages for him to arrive”) specifically can provide linguistic emphasis; especially when speakers wish to convey emotional evalua... Read More about The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech.

Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Fashion Models? (2024)
Journal Article
Ralph-Nearman, C., Hooper, M. A., Achee, M., Tomarken, A., & Filik, R. (2024). Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Fashion Models?. American Journal of Men's Health, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883241279507

This study is the first to examine the utility of body mass index (BMI) as an indicator of eating disorder (ED) pathology and fitness for employment for professional male fashion models. We assessed the relationship between experimenter-measured BMI,... Read More about Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Fashion Models?.

Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research (2024)
Journal Article
Olkoniemi, H., & Filik, R. (2024). Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research. Discourse Processes, 61(1-2), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2024.2312049

The use and interpretation of figurative expressions (e.g., irony, idiom, and metaphor) is an integral part of everyday human communication. Thus, the ability to comprehend figurative language underpins successful communication and social functioning... Read More about Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research.

Individual differences in emoji comprehension: Gender, age, and culture (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Yang, X., Howman, H., & Filik, R. (2024). Individual differences in emoji comprehension: Gender, age, and culture. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0297379. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297379

Emoji are an important substitute for non-verbal cues (such as facial expressions) in online written communication. So far, however, little is known about individual differences regarding how they are perceived. In the current study, we examined the... Read More about Individual differences in emoji comprehension: Gender, age, and culture.

The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from the United Kingdom and China (2023)
Journal Article
Zhu, N., & Filik, R. (2024). The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from the United Kingdom and China. Discourse Processes, 61(1-2), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2252695

We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be either literal or sarcastic criticism and the speaker had... Read More about The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from the United Kingdom and China.

Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China (2023)
Journal Article
Zhu, N., & Filik, R. (2023). Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(3), 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001227

Sarcasm is commonly used in everyday language; however, little is currently known about cultural and individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use, particularly across Western and Eastern cultures. To address these gaps in the literature,... Read More about Individual differences in sarcasm interpretation and use: Evidence from the UK and China.

Anaphoric reference to mereological entities (2023)
Journal Article
Cokal, D., Filik, R., Sturt, P., & Poesio, M. (2023). Anaphoric reference to mereological entities. Discourse Processes, 60(3), 202-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2197682

Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural enti... Read More about Anaphoric reference to mereological entities.

Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, H., Hand, C. J., Howman, H., & Filik, R. (2024). Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 40(9), 2211-2224. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2154890

Emoji are often misinterpreted. This study investigated whether individual differences known to impact facial emotion recognition would also affect emoji recognition. Participants completed an online emoji classification task, and then completed ques... Read More about Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension.

Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime (2022)
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Desai, S., & Filik, R. (2022). Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime. Psychology, Crime and Law, 30(5), 387-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2096221

Victim emotionality is one of the most influential factors in sexual crime cases. Traditionally, the study of emotionality has been limited to behaviour-descriptors such as conveying panic or appearing shaken, however, such studies must also be exten... Read More about Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime.

Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls (2022)
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Hand, C. J., Kennedy, A., Filik, R., Pitchford, M., & Robus, C. M. (2023). Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2514–2528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05557-4

We investigated ASD-diagnosed adults’ and neurotypical (NT) controls’ processing of emoji and emoji influence on the emotionality of otherwise-neutral sentences. Study 1 participants categorised emoji representing the six basic emotions using a fixed... Read More about Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls.