► Positive stereotypes are especially detrimental to egalitarian social perception. ► Exposure to a positive stereotype led to increased essentialism. ► Exposure to a positive stereotype led to increased application of prejudicial beliefs. ► These results were relative to baseline and negative stereotype exposure conditions. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o The present research demonstrate...

This paper presents computational work to detect satire/sarcasm in long commentaries on Italian politics. It uses the lexica extracted from the manual annotation based on Appraisal Theory, of some 30K word texts. The underlying hypothesis is that using this framework it is possible to precisely pinpoint ironic content through the deep semantic analysis of evaluative judgement and appreciation. ...

The research described in this work focuses on identifying key components for the task of irony detection. By means of analyzing a set of customer reviews, which are considered as ironic both in social and mass media, we try to find hints about how to deal with this task from a computational point of view. Our objective is to gather a set of discriminating elements to represent irony. In partic...

In slapstick comedy, the worst thing that could happen usually does: The person with a sore toe manages to stub it, sometimes twice. Such errors also arise in daily life, and research traces the tendency to do precisely the worst thing to ironic processes of mental control. These monitoring processes keep us watchful for errors of thought, speech, and action and enable us to avoid the worst thi...

ahmad matar is the prominent iraqi poet and a committed character of this age who in the contemporary arab world enjoys great fame. since the holy qur'an and religious texts, are the inspiring references to all arab poets, ahmed matar is no exception. the borrowing of qura'nic verses and contents in his poetry is due to his understanding and his wisdom in a unique manner. this article intends t...

Sentiment Analysis of tweets is a complex task, because these short messages employ unconventional language to increase the expressiveness. This task becomes even more difficult when people use figurative language (e.g. irony, sarcasm and metaphors) because it causes a mismatch between the literal meaning and the actual expressed sentiment. In this paper, we describe a sentiment analysis system...

Although there is increasing evidence to suggest that language is grounded in perception and action, the relationship between language and emotion is less well understood. We investigate the grounding of language in emotion using a novel approach that examines the relationship between the comprehension of a written discourse and the performance of affect-related motor actions (hand movements to...