Up to 70% of these expressions were positive, confirming the occurrence of a hedonic asymmetry by means of a linguistic-based approach. The result indicates that German-speaking consumers actively use differentiated and evaluative words to describe food-evoked emotions. The application of the novel approach in Study 1 was useful to identify 49 terms. The positive–negative–neutral categorization in the second study was aimed to characterize the 272 candidate words and to test for the occurrence of a hedonic asymmetry. In an online survey, 222 German-speaking participants rated the relevance of these candidate words in relation to food products. The collection and identification step resulted in 272 candidate terms that have an emotional connotation. In the first study, we applied a novel, three-step approach to the German language by collecting actively used emotion words.
The aim of the present two studies was to explore the nature of the most appropriate terms used to describe food-related emotions with a systematic, linguistic-based method. None of the lexicons was generated from a linguistic perspective using comprehensive actual language use data. However, most of the applied methods were not very systematic and used preexisting word lists as a starting point. In recent years, new emotion and feeling lexicons developed in different languages and cultures have led to interesting insights into food- and odor-elicited emotions.
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