Abstract
Sociality may determine the subjective experience and physiological response to emotional stimuli. Film segments induced socially and nonsocially generated emotions. Comedy (social positive), bereavement (social negative), pizza scenes (nonsocial positive), and wounded bodies (nonsocial negative) elicited four distinct emotional patterns. Per subjective report, joy, sadness, appetite, and disgust were elicited by the targeted stimulus condition. The social/nonsocial dimension influenced which emotional valence(s) elicited a skin conductance response, a finding that could not be explained by differences in subjective arousal. Heart rate deceleration was more responsive to nonsocially generated emotions. Taken together, these findings suggest that sociality affects the physiological profile of responses to emotional valence.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 150-155 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Emotion |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- Behavioral
- Emotion
- Film
- Heart rate
- Skin conductance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
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Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotional stimuli. / Britton, Jennifer C; Taylor, Stephan F.; Berridge, Kent C.; Mikels, Joseph A.; Liberzon, I.
In: Emotion, Vol. 6, No. 1, 01.02.2006, p. 150-155.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Britton, Jennifer C
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AU - Mikels, Joseph A.
AU - Liberzon, I.
PY - 2006/2/1
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AB - Sociality may determine the subjective experience and physiological response to emotional stimuli. Film segments induced socially and nonsocially generated emotions. Comedy (social positive), bereavement (social negative), pizza scenes (nonsocial positive), and wounded bodies (nonsocial negative) elicited four distinct emotional patterns. Per subjective report, joy, sadness, appetite, and disgust were elicited by the targeted stimulus condition. The social/nonsocial dimension influenced which emotional valence(s) elicited a skin conductance response, a finding that could not be explained by differences in subjective arousal. Heart rate deceleration was more responsive to nonsocially generated emotions. Taken together, these findings suggest that sociality affects the physiological profile of responses to emotional valence.
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KW - Heart rate
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