instructions

General Instructions:

• Welcome to the Language and Emotion study! Please wait until a researcher says you may begin. (Remains onscreen until the right arrow is pressed)

• The goal of this experiment is to better understand how people react to language (6 sec)

• You will be asked to complete three different tasks, followed by a short survey (6 sec)

• Before we begin, please make sure your fingers are on the correct keys (6 sec)

• Your right index finger should be on the left arrow key (6 sec)

• Your right ring finger should be on the right arrow key (6 sec)

• (keyboard diagram image) (4 sec)

• If you are ready to begin, please press the right arrow key (...)

AMP Instructions:

• Welcome to the first task! In this task, you will see a selection of words (6 sec)

• After seeing each word, you will see a nonsense word (6 sec)

• After this, you will see a string of "&" symbols (6 sec)

• Upon seeing the "&" symbols, you will rate whether the nonsense word you just saw made you feel pleasant or unpleasant (10 sec)

• If the nonsense word made you feel pleasant, press the right arrow key (6 sec)

• If the nonsense word made you feel unpleasant, press the left arrow key (6 sec)

• (AMP keys reminder image) (6 sec)

• Remember you are rating the nonsense word, NOT the word that came before it (6 sec)

• Let's do a practice round (6 sec)

• When you are ready to begin press the right arrow key (...)

AMP practice round of (4 words)

• Great job! (4 sec)

• Remember that LEFT is unpleasant and RIGHT is pleasant (6 sec)

• (AMP keys reminder image) (4 sec)

• If you are ready to begin, please press the right arrow key (4 sec)

• Let's go! (6 sec)

AMP (82 words x 4)

AMP Feedback

• To what extent did you base your ratings on the nonsense words you saw? (Scale from 1-7; 1 = Not at all, 7 = Completely)

• To what extent did you base your ratings on the words that appeared before the nonsense words? (Scale from 1-7; 1 = Not at all, 7 = Completely)

• To what extent did you respond randomly in this task? (Scale from 1-7; 1 = Not at all, 7 = Completely)

LDT Instructions

• Welcome to the second task! (line break) In this task, you will see a selection of words and nonsense words (6 sec)

• You will see a word or a nonsense word quickly followed by a string of symbols (6 sec)

• Upon seeing the symbols, you should decide as quickly as possible whether you saw a word or nonsense word (8 sec)

• If you think you saw a real word, press the right arrow key (6 sec)

• If you think you saw a nonsense word, press the left arrow key (6 sec)

• Please make sure your fingers are in the correct place (6 sec)

• (keyboard diagram image) (6 sec)

• (LDT keys reminder image) (6 sec)

• The words may be difficult to see, but please do the best you can (6 sec)

• Let's do a practice round

• When you are ready to begin, press the right arrow key

LDT Practice (2 words)

• Great job! (6 sec)

• Remember that LEFT is nonsense word and RIGHT is real word (6 sec)

• (LDT keys reminder image) (6 sec)

• If you are ready to begin, please press the right arrow key (6 sec)

LDT (200 words)

• Welcome to the third task! In this task, you will see a selection of tweets

• You will be asked to rate how the tweet made you feel.

• If the tweet made you feel pleasant, press the RIGHT arrow key

• If the tweet made you feel unpleasant, press the LEFT arrow key

• (tweets keys reminder image)

• When you are ready to begin, press the right arrow key

LDT Feedback

• To what extent did you respond randomly in this task? (Scale from 1-7; 1 = Not at all, 7 = Completely)

Tweets (30)