Irina Giurgea
dirinagiurgea.bsky.social
Irina Giurgea
@dirinagiurgea.bsky.social
PhD student @psychbangor.bsky.social interested in semantic cognition and social concepts
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July 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
3) the measure of motivation explained unique variance in participant performance on lexical, semantic, and recognition memory tasks
4) we propose a composite measure of motivation and emotional valence ratings that can approximate a more general ‘reward’ construct for use in future studies.
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🔑Key findings:
1) the motivation ratings were highly reliable and valid
2) the motivation ratings captured aspects of word meaning distinct from other semantic dimensions, including concreteness and valence
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We adopted the approach of theories distinguishing 'liking' and 'wanting' in reward processing. Given existing norms of the affective aspect of reward (e.g., emotional valence), we focused on collecting ratings for the motivation aspect for 8,601 words.
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM