2- thoeretical and methodological frameworks- studying emotion Flashcards

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What is emotion:

james (1884) definition

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  • bodily changes guide our emotion
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What is emotion -

Arnold and Gasson (1954)

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  • cognitive: the felt tendency towards or away from an object.
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What is emotion-

Lazarus (1991)

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organised psychophysiological reactions to news about ongoing relationships with the environment

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What is emotion - Keltner, Oatley and Jenkins (2013)

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  • responses to events that we see as challenges or opportunities in our inner or outer world.
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How do emotions relate to each other?

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There are two types of model:
Dimensional
Discrete/ categorical

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Dimensional model:

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The circumplex model of affect (Remington, Fabrigar and Visser, 2000)

  • Arousal
  • Pleasure
  • positive affect
  • negative affect
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The circumplex model

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  • Each emotion or mood is defined by the extent to which it involves the underlying dimensions of pleasure and activation
  • dimensions that are 90 degrees are independent
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Discrete emotion models

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Categorica approach:
- those who use this approach propose a limited set of basic emotions. Innate, universal, irreducible, corresponding to specific systems.

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Basic emotions

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Disagreement on which emotions are basic.
Joy, sadness, disgust, fear and anger (power, 2006).

  • According to Shaver et al 1987 each emotion has an associated script
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Discrete emotion - Complex emotions

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Shaver et al (1987) produced 135 emotion words.

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Discrete emotion- compound emotions

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Du, Tao and Martinez (2014)- facial action codes to identify 15 compound emotions, each constructed two or more basic emotions but with distinct features.

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Critique for basic emotions

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Feldman- BArrett et l 2007 instead propose the ongoing primitive emotional response (dimensional) plus conceptual knowledge (categorical)

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Self report scales

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  • the most common
  • usually have adjectives
  • could use faces
  • often used as part of diary study in which affect is recorded on many occasions by each pps.
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disadvantages of self report scales

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  • requires self awareness and understanding of emotion
  • items may not be relevant to participant
  • responses may be socially desirable.
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diary study

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Also known as experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment

  • affect recorded at regular intervals
  • in response to a signal (experience sampling)

High in ecological validity

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affect grid

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Russel, weiss and mendelsohn 1989

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positive and negative affect scale PANAS

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Watson clark and tellegen

the scale consists of a number of words that describe differemt feelings

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basic emotion scale

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power 2006

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alternative methods

non linguistic

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  • neuroimaging
  • psychological measures
  • record facial expressions
  • cognitive measures (stroop)
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alternative methods

linguistic

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  • qualitative accounts
  • peer reports
  • sentiment analysis (online media)
  • quantifying emotional value - willingness to pay.
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Summary

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Mauss and Robinson (2009) 
multi method approach needed 
no gold standard
limited convergence across measures
all types of measure relevant.
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ways to investigate emotion

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Emotion elicitation

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emotion elicitation

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Film clips.
international affect picture system (IAPS) library of photos that have been rated on dimensions of pleasure, arousal and dominance.

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effectiveness of affect inductions

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Zhang, yu and barrett (2014)
comparison of 4 affect induction procedures.

all 4 effective but most effective is image plus music

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nonconsciously evoking emotions

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Pelaez et al., 2016
pps sublim exposed to emotion pic (negative or neutral) from IAPS. THen receieved pain stimulus.
- found lower pain intensity and slower reaction times in response to negative images.

  • negative emotions might capture attentions more
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problems in emotion research

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Kagan (2010)- disagreement on what emotion refers to (brain, appraisal or behaviour)
western society and words.