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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.