TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kühnast, Milena
A1  - Wagner, Valentin
A1  - Wassiliwizky, Eugen
A1  - Jacobsen, Thomas
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
T1  - Being moved: linguistic representation and conceptual structure
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - This study explored the organization of the semantic field and the conceptual structure of moving experiences by investigating German-language expressions referring to the emotional state of being moved. We used present and past participles of eight psychological verbs as primes in a free word-association task, as these grammatical forms place their conceptual focus on the eliciting situation and on the felt emotional state, respectively. By applying a taxonomy of basic knowledge types and computing the Cognitive Salience Index, we identified joy and sadness as key emotional ingredients of being moved, and significant life events and art experiences as main elicitors of this emotional state. Metric multidimensional scaling analyses of the semantic field revealed that the core terms designate a cluster of emotional states characterized by low degrees of arousal and slightly positive valence, the latter due to a nearly balanced representation of positive and negative elements in the conceptual structure of being moved.
KW  - Ergriffenheit
KW  - Expressivität <Linguistik>
KW  - Wortassoziation
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Gefühl
KW  - Gefühlsausdruck
KW  - being moved
KW  - emotion concepts
KW  - free word association
KW  - linguistic representation
KW  - prosocial feelings
KW  - Empirische Ästhetik
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46904
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469046
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 5
IS  - Article1242
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
ER  -