✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing.
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
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.