The present study aimed to explore how 174 Spanish first language (L1) and foreign language (LX) users perceive emotionality and pleasantness in audiovisual and purely visual material eliciting blended emotions and whether cultural background and Trait Emotional Intelligence (EI) are linked to emotion perception. Participants rated the emotionality and pleasantness of the stimuli through a 7-point semantic differential scale and completed a self-reported measure of Trait EI. Data were analysed by means of univariate and multivariate statistical tests and correlation coefficients. Overall, LX users tended to provide higher ratings of emotionality and pleasantness than L1 users. This result seems to suggest that LX users are aware of the LX detachment effect and thus overcompensate when providing emotion perception ratings. Moreover, American participants rated the stimuli as more emotional and pleasant than Asian participants regardless of modality of presentation. On the other hand, Trait EI turned out to be unrelated to emotionality and pleasantness ratings contrary to previous evidence suggesting a positive role of EI in decoding emotions.

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混合情绪刺激的情绪性和愉悦性：语言、情态和情商的作用

本研究旨在探讨 174 名西班牙语第一语言 (L1) 和外语 (LX) 用户如何在引发混合情绪的视听和纯视觉材料中感知情绪和愉悦，以及文化背景和特质情商 (EI) 是否与情绪感知有关. 参与者通过 7 分语义差异量表对刺激的情绪性和愉悦性进行评分，并完成了自我报告的特质 EI 测量。数据通过单变量和多变量统计检验和相关系数进行分析。总体而言，LX 用户倾向于提供比 L1 用户更高的情感和愉悦评级。这个结果似乎表明 LX 用户意识到 LX 分离效应，因此在提供情绪感知评级时过度补偿。而且，无论呈现方式如何，美国参与者都认为这种刺激比亚洲参与者更情绪化和令人愉悦。另一方面，事实证明，特质 EI 与情绪和愉悦度评级无关，这与先前表明 EI 在解码情绪中发挥积极作用的证据相反。