11/21/2024 Discussion Session

Question 1

Regulatory Depletion Hypothesis of Hangry and others

Answer 1

negative, high arousal emotions/outbursts of anger because can’t regulate feelings without blood glucose

Question 2

Psychological constructionist theory of hangry

Answer 2

all mental events (emotions included) arise from dynamic co-action of domain-general psychological processes

Emotions = bodily changes meaningful in present context

Question 3

What is hypothesis about hanger from paper?

Answer 3

Hanger form of negative, highly aroused emotions, constructed when people make meaning of their hunger-induced affect as the experience of negative emotions

Question 4

Affect Misattribution Precedure (AMP)

Answer 4

Measure implicit attitudes by assessing the extent to which a person misattributes the meaning of initial stimulus to an ambiguous Chinese pictograph that does not itself have meaning to the participant

Question 5

Experiments in Hangry experiment

Answer 5

1: negative vs. neutral affective context (within) and state of hunger (between). Hungry = struggle with concentration. Hungry only ambiguous pictures as negative if preceeding negative image
2: add neg/neu/pos condition X hunger, replicate study 1, and positive condition not sig, which tells us not generalized to any arousal, just neg.
3: hungry/satiated x attention focus: agner/sad/no emotion.

Hunger = neg emotion, but only when not explicity directed to focus attention on emotional information.

When no directed to emotion info = report more neg high arousal as opposed to other hungry participants who explicity focused their attention on emotions such as anger/sadness

Question 6

Individuals who were hungry more likely to report feeling ___

Answer 6

Hate

Question 7

More likely to experience negative, antisocial states when hungry, but no explicity focused on…

Answer 7

Emotions

Question 8

Hungry participants who did not focus on emotional information were more likely to rate experimenter as…

Answer 8

Judgemental compared to other hungry participants focused on anger or sadness

Question 9

What are the two ways that people use/interpret negative affect that comes from hunger?

Answer 9

1. Affect as information: signals for how to interpret ambiguous stimulus (chinese pictographs)
2. Mood as input: input to itnerpersonal motivation, if they cannot attribute the emotion (in no emotion focused condition).

Question 10

Apprasial theory of emotion: why anger when hungry?

Answer 10

Response. You get the food you need.

Question 11

Moral Inconsistency

Answer 11

our judgemetns about how much to condemn or condone a particular behavior do not always adhere to the same moral principles

Question 12

Counterfactuals

Answer 12

what we believe “might have been”

Question 13

Why are counterfactuals more appealing than motivated reasoning?

Answer 13

1. Constructing counterfactuals is easier than collecting facts
2. Make conclusions more resistant to falsification than facts
3. More counterfactuals than facts that justify a desired conclusion

Question 14

What 3 means of flexibility are offered by counterfactual thinking?

Answer 14

1. Different Content –> direction of comparison (better or worse), how much worse other things were, how others would have behaved if circumstances different
2. Comparison processes –> constract process (never happened) or assimilation (counterfactual nearly occured)
3. Weights (more or less influence on moral judgements, motivation = what counterfactuals they imagine AND how much influecne they have. Counterfactuals can be inpus or dismissed as irrelevant.

Question 15

What is more important to relationship happiness? Being known or knowing another?

Answer 15

Being Known