2- thoeretical and methodological frameworks- studying emotion Flashcards
What is emotion:
james (1884) definition
- bodily changes guide our emotion
What is emotion -
Arnold and Gasson (1954)
- cognitive: the felt tendency towards or away from an object.
What is emotion-
Lazarus (1991)
organised psychophysiological reactions to news about ongoing relationships with the environment
What is emotion - Keltner, Oatley and Jenkins (2013)
- responses to events that we see as challenges or opportunities in our inner or outer world.
How do emotions relate to each other?
There are two types of model:
Dimensional
Discrete/ categorical
Dimensional model:
The circumplex model of affect (Remington, Fabrigar and Visser, 2000)
- Arousal
- Pleasure
- positive affect
- negative affect
The circumplex model
- 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
Discrete emotion models
Categorica approach:
- those who use this approach propose a limited set of basic emotions. Innate, universal, irreducible, corresponding to specific systems.
Basic emotions
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
Discrete emotion - Complex emotions
Shaver et al (1987) produced 135 emotion words.
Discrete emotion- compound emotions
Du, Tao and Martinez (2014)- facial action codes to identify 15 compound emotions, each constructed two or more basic emotions but with distinct features.
Critique for basic emotions
Feldman- BArrett et l 2007 instead propose the ongoing primitive emotional response (dimensional) plus conceptual knowledge (categorical)
Self report scales
- 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.
disadvantages of self report scales
- requires self awareness and understanding of emotion
- items may not be relevant to participant
- responses may be socially desirable.
diary study
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