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Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention (2016)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., & Filik, R. (2016). Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(2), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12156

Here we present two studies that investigate the use of emoticons in clarifying message intent. We look at sarcasm in particular, which can be especially hard to interpret correctly in written communication. In both studies, participants were require... Read More about Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention.

Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact (2015)
Journal Article
Filik, R., Turcan, A., Thompson, D., Harvey, N., Davies, H., & Turner, A. (2015). Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(11), https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1106566

Most theorists agree that sarcasm serves some communicative function that would not be achieved by speaking directly, such as eliciting a particular emotional response in the recipient. One debate concerns whether this kind of language serves to enha... Read More about Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact.

Online processing of moral transgressions: ERP evidence for spontaneous evaluation (2015)
Journal Article
Leuthold, H., FILIK, R., Kunkel, A., & Mackenzie, I. G. (2015). Online processing of moral transgressions: ERP evidence for spontaneous evaluation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(8), 1021–1029. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu151

Experimental studies using fictional moral dilemmas indicate that both automatic emotional processes and controlled cognitive processes contribute to moral judgments. However, not much is known about how people process socio-normative violations that... Read More about Online processing of moral transgressions: ERP evidence for spontaneous evaluation.

When language gets emotional: irony and the embodiment of affect in discourse (2015)
Journal Article
Filik, R., Hunter, C. M., & Leuthold, H. (2015). When language gets emotional: irony and the embodiment of affect in discourse. Acta Psychologica, 156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.08.007

Although there is increasing evidence to suggest that language is grounded in perception and action, the relationship between language and emotion is less well understood. We investigate the grounding of language in emotion using a novel approach tha... Read More about When language gets emotional: irony and the embodiment of affect in discourse.

Testing theories of irony processing using eye-tracking and ERPs (2014)
Journal Article
Filik, R., Leuthold, H., Wallington, K., & Page, J. (2014). Testing theories of irony processing using eye-tracking and ERPs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 811-828. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035658

Not much is known about how people comprehend ironic utterances, and to date, most studies have simply compared processing of ironic versus non-ironic statements. A key aspect of the graded salience hypothesis, distinguishing it from other accounts (... Read More about Testing theories of irony processing using eye-tracking and ERPs.

Inner speech during silent reading reflects the reader's regional accent (2011)
Journal Article
Filik, R., & Barber, E. (2011). Inner speech during silent reading reflects the reader's regional accent. PLoS ONE, 6(10), Article e25782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025782

While reading silently, we often have the subjective experience of inner speech. However, there is currently little evidence regarding whether this inner voice resembles our own voice while we are speaking out loud. To investigate this issue, we comp... Read More about Inner speech during silent reading reflects the reader's regional accent.