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  2. Valence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    But positive emotions like joy have a positive valence. Positively valenced emotions are evoked by positively valenced events, objects, or situations. [7] The term is also used to describe the hedonic tone of feelings, certain behaviors (for example, approach and avoidance), goal attainment or non-attainment, and conformity with or violation of ...

  3. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a work's tone has been argued in the academic context as involving a critique of one's innate emotions: the creator or creators of an artistic piece deliberately push one to rethink the emotional dimensions of one's own life due to the creator or creator's psychological intent, which whoever comes across the piece must then deal ...

  4. Emotional prosody - Wikipedia

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    Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. [1] It includes an individual's tone of voice in speech that is conveyed through changes in pitch, loudness, timbre, speech rate, and pauses. It can be isolated from semantic information, and interacts with verbal content (e.g ...

  5. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    The word "emotion" dates back to 1579, ... These cues can include facial expressions, body language, vocal tone, and context. Basic Emotions: Prinz's theory is ...

  6. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    However, even if emotional expression through prosody cannot always be consciously recognized, tone of voice may continue to have subconscious effects in conversation. This sort of expression stems not from linguistic or semantic effects, and can thus be isolated from traditional [clarification needed] linguistic content.

  7. Paralanguage - Wikipedia

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    Emotional tone of voice, itself paralinguistic information, has been shown to affect the resolution of lexical ambiguity. Some words have homophonous partners; some of these homophones appear to have an implicit emotive quality, for instance, the sad "die" contrasted with the neutral "dye"; uttering the sound /dai/ in a sad tone of voice can ...

  8. Emotion and memory - Wikipedia

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    The concept of emotional memory and sleep can be applied to real-life situations e.g. by developing more effective learning strategies. One could integrate the memorization of information that possesses high emotional significance (highly salient) with information that holds little emotional significance (low salience), prior to a period of sleep.

  9. Group emotion - Wikipedia

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    Emotional aperture has been defined as the ability or skill to perceive features of group emotions. [15] Examples of features of group emotions include the level of variability of emotions among members (i.e., affective diversity), the proportion of positive or negative emotions, and the modal (i.e., most common) emotion present in a group.