Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Human Emotion: Emotion Elicitation

Emotion processes

Reactivity: type/magnitude/duration of response to internal/external environment & have significance for personal goals

Regulation: processes by which individuals influence which emotions they have/how they experience & express them

Understanding: knowledge about whether we or other people are experiencing emotions (can we accurately detect them in ourselves & others)

Tools & Methods used to elicit emotions

Film Clips
  • Used to elicit positive, negative, neutral feelings
  • Emotion processes: reactivity, regulation, understanding 
  • Advantages: good ecological validity (dynamic, socially embedded) 
  • Disadvantages: require high cognitive demands (thematically complex & cannot elicit full array of emotions) 
Static photos
  • IAPS (international affective picture system) or Emotional faces
  • Robust elicitor of emotions
  • Emotion processes: reactivity, regulation, understanding
  • Advantages: low cognitive demand, low language demand
  • Disadvantages: limited range of emotions, human facial expressions can be exaggerated
Relived emotions
  • Recalling/trying to retrieve memories & go back in time to relive the memories as strongly as possible
  • Autobiographical memories vs. Shared memories
  • Emotion processes: reactivity, regulation, understanding
  • Advantages: personally relevant & engaging, good ecological validity
  • Disadvantages: idiographic stimuli (not standardized), high memory demand 
Dyadic Interactions
  • Interactions btwn people (differences btwn who the people are)

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