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    "pk": 49544,
    "title": "From positive to negative \"craziness\": Changes in emotional valence of words across adulthood",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Accumulating knowledge and experience across the lifespan are bound to have an impact on the meaning of words. Here, we investigated this idea using primarily emotional valence of words as a test-case. We used French databases that gather psycholinguistic variables including emotional valence of words, in four groups of individuals including young (18-25; 26-39 years), middle-aged (40-59 years) and older (>60 years) adults. Following the hypothesis that words may display age-related differences in their psycholinguistic properties, we computed linear regressions over all individual words as a function of age-groups. Results revealed notably that between 5 and 10% of words show significant linear changes of emotional valence as a function of age. This pattern highlights the situated and flexible nature of word meanings and suggests that self-relevance of experience affects semantic memory.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Emotion; Situated cognition"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Rapha‘l",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fargier",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UniversitŽ Côte d'Azur",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Claire",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ballot",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Nantes University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T15:00:00-03:00",
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