Gygax, Pascal Garnham, Alan Oakhill, Jane 2004 Gygax, Oakhill and Garnham (2003) showed that, contrary to the assumption of earlier research (e.g. Gernsbacher, Goldsmith, & Robertson, 1992), readers do not infer specific emotions such as guilt or boredom. This paper presents evidence for the non-specificity of emotional inferences regardless of the nature of the stories. In Experiment 1 and 2, Gygax et al.’s stories were made longer. In Experiment 1 (off-line), people rated specific emotions as more likely, but in Experiment 2 (on-line), there was no difference between target sentences containing different matching emotions, although participants took longer to read sentences containing emotions mismatching the stories. In Experiment 3 and 4, the stories included a coherence break resolvable by inferring the main character's emotional state. In Experiment 3 (off-line), people rated specific emotions as more likely, but in Experiment 4 (on-line), there was, again, no difference between target sentences containing different matching emotions. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/303435 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/303435/files/GygaxGarnhamOakhill2004preprint.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined emotional inferences info:eu-repo/classification/udc/159.9 Understanding Emotions in Text: Readers Do Not Represent Specific Emotions http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_816b