ABSTRACT

The articles in this special issue take an important step in beginning to test the PET framework. Together, these articles illustrate the importance of considering individual differences in attitudes and prior knowledge as well as differences in task demands when investigating the role of emotions in shaping cognitive processing while reading texts. This commentary begins with a focus on the type of emotion being studied (e.g., preexisting emotions/mood, achievement emotions, epistemic emotions, topic emotions). Next, the function of emotions in cognitive processing and self-regulation is discussed, including a consideration of key findings from the articles in this special issue and additional considerations about the ways in which emotions may shape discourse processing. Finally, practical methodological matters relating to the investigation of emotions during discourse processing are considered. Throughout, contributions of the articles in this special issue are featured as well as suggestions for potential avenues for future research.

摘要

本期特刊的文章在开始测试PET框架方面迈出了重要的一步。总之，这些文章说明了在研究情绪在阅读文本时塑造认知过程中的作用时，考虑态度和先验知识的个体差异以及任务需求差异的重要性。该评论首先关注所研究的情绪类型（例如，先前存在的情绪/情绪、成就情绪、认知情绪、主题情绪）。接下来，讨论了情绪在认知加工和自我调节中的作用，包括对本期特刊文章的主要发现的考虑，以及对情绪可能影响话语加工的方式的额外考虑。最后，考虑在话语处理过程中与情绪调查有关的实际方法问题。在整个特刊中，文章的贡献以及对未来研究的潜在途径的建议。