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Emotion experiences in different languages

How do we perceive emotions in others and ourselves in different languages? And how does this affect our relationships, decision-making, and the way we manage our emotions?

Our research project explores how emotions are perceived and managed in different languages. Previous research has shown that the language we use can influence how we experience and express our emotions. For bilingual and multilingual individuals, emotional experience may vary depending on whether they are speaking their first or second language. In some cases, individuals tend to experience a stronger emotional response when speaking their first language, while a second language can influence how emotional information is processed and decisions are made.

In our project, we examine these phenomena by analyzing how people perceive emotions in others' emotional expressions, such as through facial expressions or voice, as well as how they express and process their own emotions in different languages. We investigate how these differences affect social interactions, decision-making, and emotional regulation in various contexts.

By analyzing these processes, we aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of how language use can affect emotional communication and interactions, especially in multilingual and multicultural environments.

Publications

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Nook, E. C. (2024). How first- and second-language emotion words influence emotion perception in Swedish-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000998

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Dylman, A. S. (2021). Bilinguals’ inference of emotions in ambiguous speech. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25(5), 1297–1310. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211018847

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., Dylman, A. S., & Esteves, F. (2021). Empirical investigation of the relationship between social flexibility and bilingualism. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5(1), 65–80¬. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-021-00076-7

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Dylman, A. S. (2021) Different measurements of bilingualism and their effect on performance on a Simon task. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(2), 505–526. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000661

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Knežević Cvelbar, L. (2021) Pro-environment choices using a second language. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, Article 103089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103089

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Dylman, A. S. (2020, June). Emotionality of taboo words in Swedish-English bilingual young and older adults. Poster presented at the Conference on Multilingualism, Reading, UK. osf.io/uvp5c/

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., Dylman, A. S., Örnkloo, H., & Esteves, F. (2019). Identification of facial expressions of emotion by 4-year-old children from different linguistic environments. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23, 1208-1219. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918781069

Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Dylman, A. S. (2019). A prosodic bias, not an advantage, in bilinguals’ interpretation of emotional prosody. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22, 416-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000640