ABSTRACT
When we use emotional language and when we read emotion words, when we invoke emotion concepts and when we recount emotional stories, what happens to our emotional states? Just what is the relation between the processing of emotion concepts and emotion words, and other emotion processes such as feelings? This question has implications for the modeling of the representation and processing of emotion. It also has implications for how we interpret a number of different findings in the affect-cognition and attitudes literature that purport to show effects-automatic and controlled-of emotion, affect, and attitude on subsequent information processing and subsequent affective experience.
