Emotion Categories: A Case Study

A target from one of the three emotion categories (negative, neutral, and positive) was paired with a foil from one of the three categories, giving the rise to nine (3 × 3) conditions, with eight target/foil pairs in each condition. 48 words in each emotion category were distributed randomly into six sets of eight words each, with three sets served as targets and the remaining three sets as foils. When words in a set served as targets, this set paired with negative, positive, and neutral foils. When the same set served as foils, it paired with negative, positive, and neutral targets. Furthermore, to make each word pair with the words from all categories, the six sets of words in each category rotated to serve as targets and foils, rendering