Bilingual advantage effect of Chinese-English bilinguals in emotional Stroop
JIAO Jiangli, LIU Yi
College of Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Development and Learning Science, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830017, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Abstract：Objective To explore differences in emotional information processing between bilinguals and monolinguals in emotional Stroop tasks. Methods The experiment was designed by 2 × 2. Among bilinguals and monolinguals, the reaction time and error rates of color words were recorded. Scores of effect size (ES) were calculated. Results Both groups showed emotional Stroop effect. The amount of ES effect of bilinguals (23 ms) was significantly less than that of the monolinguals (52 ms). The average error rate of monolinguals (4.54%) was significantly higher than that of the bilinguals (2.18%). Conclusion In the emotional Stroop task, bilinguals showed better attentional inhibition control on emotional lexical information than monolinguals. Bilingual dominance effect also exists in the attention processing of emotional information processing.
