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semantic route to read, but WJX both semantic and sublexical. routes. It is consistent in the
summation hypothesis, arguing oral reading combines sublexical and semantic information.
1112 ORAL
Emotion and motivation
Chair: Hsuan Chih Chen, Hong Kong, China
1112.1 Mood incongruent facilitation in recognizing emotional words, Yiu Kei Tsang, Hoi Yee
Lee, Hsuan Chih Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
It has been shown that incongruent mood can facilitate processing (e.g., happy Christmas holidays
is better recalled in the sad mood than in the neutral or happy mood). However, this incongruent
facilitation has often been found with off-line measurements. Two experiments were conducted to
investigate mood regulation in word recognition using on-line measurements such as eye tracking
techniques. Mood was induced through pre-selected music listening. Results showed that mood
incongruent words (e.g., pleasant words in the sad mood) were processed more efficiently than did
mood congruent words. Implications of the obtained findings for the immediacy of mood
regulation are discussed.
1112.2 A study on emotional expressivity of university students in China, Xiqing Su, Kai Fong
Chan, Angela Tsun, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Findings of a research on emotional expressivity of Chinese university students was reported.
There are 1531 subjects from 13 universities in Beijing, including 701males and 829 females from
different grades in the research. A survey based on the BEQ (Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire)
and in-depth interview are combined as the methodology of the research. Findings suggest that
both positive and negative emotional expressivity of Chinese university students are high with
significant difference (p