Abstract
The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between
emotional intelligence (EI) and the likelihood of the bizarreness
effect. Participants in the emotion condition were asked to rate the
degree of strange feelings elicited by sentences and participants in the
image condition were asked to rate the vividness of images elicited by
sentences. The level of EI in participants was assessed with the J-ESCQ
(Toyota, Morita & Takšić, 2007). EI was negatively correlated with the
recall performance of bizarre sentences for participants in the emotion
condition. Results indicate that differences in EI contribute to the
likelihood of the bizarreness effect, and that EI suppresses the
emotional arousal caused by bizarre sentences.