Taboo words and reprimands elicit greater autonomic reactivity in a first language than in a second language

By C. Harris, Ayşe Ayçiçeği, J. Gleason. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The pragmatics of swearing (2008, background): “In line with Dewaele’s finding, Harris et al. (2003) showed higher autonomic nervous system reactivity to taboo words presented in a native language than in a second language.”
Memory for emotional words in bilinguals: Do words have the same emotional intensity in the first and in the second language? (2010, methodology): “…in the same line were obtained in the series of studies conducted by Harris and co-workers (Caldwell-Harris & Ayçiçegi-Dinn, 2009; Harris, 2004; Harris et al., 2003, 2006) who reported that the electrodermal response to emotional L2 words was affected by both age of second language…”
The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals' languages (2008, background): “Harris et al. (2003) analyzed the emotional impact of words in the L1 and L2 through their effect on autonomic reactivity.”
Emotion-memory effects in bilingual speakers: A levels-of-processing approach* (2009, neutral): “In contrast, the letter counting task had the lowest overall recall rate (17%) but the highest emotionmemory effects (12% advantage over neutral), because emotional stimuli attract attention due to their inherent interest (see discussion in Jay et al., 2008). It could be useful in future research to”
It matters how much you talk: On the automaticity of affective connotations of first and second language words (2011, background): “For example, participants in the studies by Harris (2004; Harris et al., 2003) were US immigrants who were native speakers of Turkish or Spanish.”
Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon (2008, background): “Harris et al. (2003) demonstrated that in late Turkish–English bilinguals SCRs were stronger to L1 than to L2 in several categories of emotion-laden words.”
Emotional activation in the first and second language (2007, background): “…automatic and early lexical processing, whereas in studies using tasks such as identifying the emotional tone of a tape recording (Rintell, 1984), or rating stimuli for pleasantness (Harris et al., 2003), the linguistic material is likely to be processed to a greater extent at a conscious level.”
Physiological reactivity to emotional phrases in Mandarin—English bilinguals (2011, methodology): “This is puzzling, and is also inconsistent with three prior studies which found decreased SCRs for L2 childhood reprimands (Caldwell-Harris & Aycicegi-Dinn, 2009; Harris, 2004; Harris et al., 2003).”
The Moral Foreign-Language Effect (2016, methodology): “Additionally, the FLE experiments involved cases presented visually (participants read the cases) rather than hearing them spoken, which according to Harris, Aycicegi, and Gleason (2003) makes the difference between responses in non-native and native conditions less stark.”
Behavioural and physiological responses to the emotional and taboo Stroop tasks in native and non-native speakers of English (2011, background): “Harris et al. (2003) have reported significant differences between L1 and L2 in the levels of skin conductance, an indicator of autonomic arousal associated with emotional activation.”