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Liu, Yiguang, Hailun Huang and Junying Liang. 2021. Taxing Brings Benefits: the interpreter advantage in emotional regulation. In Wang, Caiwen and Binghan Zheng (郑冰寒), eds. Empirical Studies of Translation and Interpreting: the post-structuralist approach (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies). London: Routledge. pp. 219–239.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
The chapter aims to examine the possible interpreter advantage in emotional regulation. The Simon task (Experiment 1) and the digit switch task (Experiment 2) were used and the results showed that student interpreters performed more stably than matched non-interpreter bilinguals under different emotional conditions (high-approach-motivated vs. low-approach-motivated) when certain executive functions (inhibitory control and monitoring, but not cognitive flexibility) were required. The empirical patterns indicate that interpreting training can help interpreters resist emotional distractions in certain domain-general settings. The present study is an initial empirical effort that extends the interpreter advantage studies to the psycho-emotional dimension. The results suggest that interpreting training can be selectively beneficial to emotional regulation.
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