Feeling induction

Question 1

Affect induction

Answer 1

There is a general effect of arousal (dominance study)
- Slight pref for faces compared to houses, this increases based on arousal level

Dominance seen in arousal, valence and congruency
1. arousal; When emotional (pos or neg) you look longer compared to neutral
2. Valence; If induced in negative state, you look longer at stimuli compared to positive
3. Congruence; significantly longer at positive when in positive state.

• Emotional stimuli enhance awareness
• stimuli congruent w mood are more likely to enter awareness.

Question 2

Attention characteristics in social interaction

Answer 2

Attention enhances mental representations and allocates neural resources to relevant processes, items or representations

Bottom-up is based on saliency/distraction

Top-down is self controlled

Question 3

Gaze avoidaance

Answer 3

Controls focus on center of the face, whereas social phobia look scattered and little in the eye

High socially anxious also ten do fixate on hands for longer