Neuroticism and valence of negative emotional concepts

Although neuroticism has been investigated in relation to emotional information processing (Rafienia, Azadfallah, Ashtiani, & Rasoulzadeh-Tabatabaiei, 2008), emotional regulation strategies (Wang, Shi, & Miao, 2009), emotional intelligence (Petrides, 2010), affective priming (Robinson, Ode, Moeller, & Goetz, 2007), and well-being (Augusto-Landa, Pulido-Martos, & López-Zafra, 2010), the relationship between neuroticism and people’s semantic perception of emotional concepts has, as yet, received little attention from researchers.