fa Balanced bilingualism: A cognitive advantage in emotional words processing‎ فلسفه ذهن و زبان شناسی شناختی پژوهشي اصیل Research <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The impact of bilingualism on cognitive and emotional processing is the topic of recent psycholinguists & Educational Psychologists&rsquo; studies. Bilingualism researchers (Harris, 2020; Kazanas & Altarriba, 2015; Pavlenko, 2012; and Ay&ccedil;i&ccedil;egi & Harris, 2004) believe the first language is more emotional than the 2^{<span style="position:relative"><span style="top:-5.5pt">nd</span></span>}&nbsp;Language in bilinguals. Iranian studies (Bahrami et al., 2020)also approved this. <span style="color:black">However, this research shall evaluate the formation of early Mental Emotion Lexicon in adult balanced bilinguals and the impact of positive emotions on lexical access as cognitive executive functions.</span>&lrm; To evaluate the hypothesis through the experiment, forty &rlm;Turkish-Persian bilingual students with an average age &lrm;of &lrm;&rlm;22-30&rlm;&lrm; , SD=2.25, were selected from Islamic Azad &lrm;University students in Tehran to participate &lrm;in this quasi-experimental research. Participants were asked to complete the Bilingual History Questionnaire, the General &lrm;Health Questionnaire, the Positive and Negative affect schedule, and a &lrm;DMDX word selection task to induce positive emotion/word. The emotion words list from WEAL (Word Emotion Association Lexicon) was &lrm;validated under translation advantage. Repeated measures in ANOVA revealed that the participants&rsquo; &lrm;significantly&lrm; spent fast reaction time determining both languages&rsquo; emotion words to images, &lrm;induced with intense &lrm;positive emotion. The results showed that positive emotion processing &lrm;facilitates the RT more than inhibitory (negative) emotions in bilinguals. Early formation of a bilingual emotion lexicon causes balance in emotional distance. These approve the findings of &lrm;previous studies. &lrm;The results can be further referred to as literature on bilingualism cognitive advantage studies and propose mental emotion lexicon as criteria for bilingual &lrm;proficiency assessments.</span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The impact of bilingualism on cognitive and emotional processing is the topic of recent psycholinguists & Educational Psychologists&rsquo; studies. Bilingualism researchers (Harris, 2020; Kazanas & Altarriba, 2015; Pavlenko, 2012; and Ay&ccedil;i&ccedil;egi & Harris, 2004) believe the first language is more emotional than the 2^{<span style="position:relative"><span style="top:-5.5pt">nd</span></span>}&nbsp;Language in bilinguals. Iranian studies (Bahrami et al., 2020)also approved this. <span style="color:black">However, this research shall evaluate the formation of early Mental Emotion Lexicon in adult balanced bilinguals and the impact of positive emotions on lexical access as cognitive executive functions.</span>&lrm; To evaluate the hypothesis through the experiment, forty &rlm;Turkish-Persian bilingual students with an average age &lrm;of &lrm;&rlm;22-30&rlm;&lrm; , SD=2.25, were selected from Islamic Azad &lrm;University students in Tehran to participate &lrm;in this quasi-experimental research. Participants were asked to complete the Bilingual History Questionnaire, the General &lrm;Health Questionnaire, the Positive and Negative affect schedule, and a &lrm;DMDX word selection task to induce positive emotion/word. The emotion words list from WEAL (Word Emotion Association Lexicon) was &lrm;validated under translation advantage. Repeated measures in ANOVA revealed that the participants&rsquo; &lrm;significantly&lrm; spent fast reaction time determining both languages&rsquo; emotion words to images, &lrm;induced with intense &lrm;positive emotion. The results showed that positive emotion processing &lrm;facilitates the RT more than inhibitory (negative) emotions in bilinguals. Early formation of a bilingual emotion lexicon causes balance in emotional distance. These approve the findings of &lrm;previous studies. &lrm;The results can be further referred to as literature on bilingualism cognitive advantage studies and propose mental emotion lexicon as criteria for bilingual &lrm;proficiency assessments.</span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> Balanced bilingualism, Positive emotion words, Lexical access, Bilingual emotion lexicon, Cognitive advantage Balanced bilingualism, Positive emotion words, Lexical access, Bilingual emotion lexicon, Cognitive advantage 34 0 http://icssjournal.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-105&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Yaghoub Nazaralian Yaghoub Nazaralian Yaghoubnazaralian@yahoo.com 100319475328460015256 100319475328460015256 Yes Department of Foreign Languages, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran Department of Foreign Languages, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran Ali Salimi Khorshidi Ali Salimi Khorshidi 100319475328460015257 100319475328460015257 No Department of Foreign Languages, Neka Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neka, Iran Department of Foreign Languages, Neka Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neka, Iran Hassan Bashirnejad Hassan Bashirnejad 100319475328460015258 100319475328460015258 No Department of Foreign Languages, Farhangian University of Sari, Sari, Iran Department of Foreign Languages, Farhangian University of Sari, Sari, Iran Massoud Asadi Massoud Asadi 100319475328460015259 100319475328460015259 No Department of Foreign Languages, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran Department of Foreign Languages, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran