We demonstrate that feature-specific attention allocation influences the way in which repeated exposure modulates implicit and explicit evaluations toward fear-related stimuli. During an exposure procedure, participants were encouraged to assign selective attention either to the evaluative meaning (i.e., Evaluative Condition) or a non-evaluative, semantic feature (i.e., Semantic Condition) of f...

Our preferences and evaluations are often affected by contextual factors. One unavoidable context is language. We used an evaluative conditioning (EC) paradigm (pairing neutral stimuli with emotional or stimuli) to investigate whether our equally conditioned in a first (L1) second language (L2). An EC effect was observed both languages, however, if L1 it occurred independently of recollection t...

The Dapeng dialect is a unique Hakka–Cantonese mixed spoken by several thousand speakers in the peninsula Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Manhattan, New York. This study reviews language vitality assessment frameworks for their applicability to Chinese languages assesses sustainability of using UNESCO Language Vitality Endangerment scale. Despite some factors indicating low vitality, an overall sugges...

Evaluative conditioning refers to changes in the liking of a stimulus that are due to the fact that the stimulus has been paired with other, positive or negative stimuli. Although evaluative conditioning appears to be subjected to certain boundary conditions, significant evaluative conditioning effects have been obtained using a large variety of stimuli and procedures. Some data suggest that ev...

In this article, the authors present foundational elements related to argument extraction in opinion texts with the objective to design a model of how consumers develop argumentation in such texts. A second goal is to analyze and synthesize user preferences and therefore user value systems from these arguments. They show that (1) within the context of opinionated expressions, a number of evalua...

While performing a simple task of following: a suture while closing a surgical wound in a simulated environment, we hypothesized that negative reinforcement results in increased procedural errors, longer operating time and poorer trainee satisfaction. We aimed to measure the effect on participant performance and the perception of the instructor, following positive or negative supervisor feedbac...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to examine the effect of an elaborate feedback and an audience response system (ARS) on learning success. METHODS Students of the 1st clinical semester were randomly assigned to a study and a control group. The randomization was carried out considering the factors of age, gender and power spectrum during preliminary dental examination. Within 10 lectures ...

Feedback plays a significant role in precepting and is indispensable in residency training. As described by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the goal of any postgraduate residency program is to prepare individual trainees to function as qualified practitioners. Although feedback and evaluations have traditionally been synonymous, our goal is to differentiate the two and...

The word formation pattern [ __-i]N mask. in Alemannic mainly derives masculine agent nouns from verbs resulting output semantics of ‘someone who notoriously acts the manner base verb’. I analyse as an instance evaluative morphology embedded a more general oriented schema and propose scenario how may have developed OHG hypochoristic primarily used names. In qualitative quantitative analysis two...

Abstract There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle co-occurrence co-selection language construction, this paper reviews current applications area discourse focusing issues ranging from phraseology, variation discourse, translation, register genre perspectives forensic co...