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- Depressed people will be faster at identifying the affective
valence of negative words than positive or neutral words due to
increased attention to the negative affective valence of these words.
- Depressed people may be especially delayed in recognizing the
affective valence of positive words with respect to neutral words, due
to weak positive associations within their semantic network.
Greg Siegle
1999-11-15