Experiment on Reaction

time of Emotional and

Neutral Words
Overview

Emotion Theories Reaction Words

• Feelings • James-Lange theory • Emotional Words

• Cognitive Process
• Bodily Arousal
• Behaviour
• Cannon-Bard theory • Neutral words
• Schachter-Singer two-factor ( The reaction time of the
words can be affected due
to factors like age, gender,
distraction etc.)
Literature Review

The Emotional Reasoning of Emotional & Neutral

Stroop Test materials

 EEG frequency Quantile

characteristics Analysis

Response time effects of Recollection of Emotional

novelty Content
Purpose: If human beings react differently to the emotional and
neutral words also how much time it takes to respond to those words

Variables: Reaction time(DV) & Emotional & Neutral

Words(IDV)

Hypothesis: The time taken to respond to

emotional words compared to the neutral words will be
higher.

Procedure: Latency of response

Results

MEAN TIME TAKEN • The participant took 0.67 seconds

more on average to respond to
emotional words. Thus, results
2.48 Seconds
prove our hypothesis to be true.
3.15 Seconds

MEAN TIME TAKEN

NEUTRAL WORDS

EMOTIONAL WORDS NEUTRAL WORDS EMOTIONAL WORDS

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

MEAN TIME TAKEN
Result Analysis

Data(In Seconds) Data(In Seconds) Data(In Seconds)

Emotional Words Neutral Words

All Words
• Total Time: • Total Time:
47.30 • Total Time: 37.18
• Mean Rime: 84.48 • Mean Rime:
3.15 • Mean Rime: 2.48
2.82
 Discussion

A statistical difference between the mean

response time of the emotional word and the
mean response time of the neutral word
The difference between the two categories
of words list was 0.67 seconds, which
indicates that the hypothesis taken was
correct Consistent with many prior
experiments by psychologists,
which confirms the study’s
hypothesis.
It was noticed that the participant seemed to be
deliberately slowing down when hearing words
of emotions, probably to provide more focus
Discussion

Final Verdict: The time taken to respond to

emotional words compared to the neutral words is
higher.
Emotional words have the ability to evoke intense emotion in a certain person.So, an
individual thinks for a longer period of time. However, neutral words do not stir any
emotional experience, and so, people do not take much time to respond to neutral
words.
Quantile analysis done by Antonio & Fabio mirrors our hypothesis that
participants were slower to reject novel emotional words than to reject novel
neutral words
Moreover tests like the Emotional Stroop Test and EEG frequency
characteristics also matches with the result of our experiment
Thank you
• Theories of emotion see
• Discussion see conslusion