The psycholinguistic and affective structure of words conveying pain.

Despite the flourishing research on the relationships between affect and language, the characteristics of pain-related words, a specific type of negative words, have never been systematically investigated from a psycholinguistic and emotional perspective, despite their psychological relevance. This...

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Main Authors: Eleonora Borelli, Davide Crepaldi, Carlo Adolfo Porro, Cristina Cacciari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6025857?pdf=render