The Intersection of Language with Emotion, Personality, and Related Factors

Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

1. The landscape of emotional language processing in bilinguals
José A. Hinojosa Poveda and Miriam Aguilar
2. What's in an emotion word? The role of labeling in emotion regulation and well-being
Katie Hoemann
3. Language in the eyes of emotional readers
Vicky Lai
4. Language, loneliness, and personality
Bertie Lee
5. Reading Emotion in Context: the Reciprocal Relationship between Feelings and Words
Wei-Hung Lin, Chia-Lin Lee, Jing-Yi Huang and I-Ling Hsu
6. Language and sociocultural environments influence our understanding and experience of emotions
Holly Shablack