Table 3 Outline of the experimental design.
From: Faces of different socio-cultural identities impact emotional meaning learning for L2 words
Two learning groups: Chinese-face Group and Caucasian-face Group |
The Chinese-face Group was presented with pseudowords paired with Chinese faces |
The Caucasian-face Group was presented with pseudowords paired with Caucasian faces |
Three emotions: disgust, sadness, and neutral |
In both groups, the stimuli paired with pseudowords expressed disgusting, sad, or neutral meanings |
Main dependent measures: |
(1) Within-modality generalization tests |
The Chinese-face Group and the Caucasian-face Group were presented respectively with two sets of new faces to test how the emotional meanings of pseudowords generalize to unlearned faces in the congruent and incongruent conditions |
(1) The Chinese-face Group |
-Congruent set: consisted of 15 new Chinese faces (5 for each emotion) |
-Incongruent set: consisted of 15 new Caucasian faces (5 for each emotion) |
(2) The Caucasian-face Group |
-Congruent set: consisted of 15 new Caucasian faces (5 for each emotion) |
-Incongruent set: consisted of 15 new Chinese faces (5 for each emotion) |
(2) Cross-modality generalization tests |
Both the Chinese-face Group and the Caucasian-face Group were presented respectively with English sentences to test how the emotional meanings of pseudowords generalize to emotional sentences |
