scholarly journals Subliminal Affect Regulation

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils B. Jostmann ◽  
Sander L. Koole ◽  
Nickie Y. van der Wulp ◽  
Daniel A. Fockenberg
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Subliminal Priming ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Happy Expression

Abstract. Past research has linked action orientation to intuitive affect regulation ( Koole & Jostmann, 2004 ; Kuhl, 1981 ). The present research examines whether action orientation can regulate subliminally activated affect. In an experimental study, action- vs. state-oriented participants were exposed to subliminal primes of schematic faces with an angry, neutral, or happy expression. Participants subsequently rated their affect on a basic affect measure. The results showed prime-congruent effects among state-oriented individuals: subliminal angry primes led to lower basic affect compared to subliminal happy primes. Action-oriented participants were not influenced by the subliminal priming in their basic affective reactions. The authors conclude that action orientation is a regulator of basic affective responses, even when these responses are triggered outside of conscious awareness.

An initial investigation of the role of death concerns in evaluations of metaphoric language about God

2021 ◽  
pp. 008467242110316
Author(s):  
Lucas A Keefer ◽  
Faith L Brown ◽  
Thomas G Rials
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Initial Investigation ◽  
Metaphoric Language ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Past research suggests that death pushes some individuals to strongly promote religious worldviews. The current work explores the role of conceptual metaphor in this process. Past research shows that metaphors can provide meaning and certainty, suggesting that death may therefore cause people to be more attracted to epistemically beneficial metaphoric descriptions of God. In three studies, we test this possibility against competing alternatives suggesting that death concerns may cause more selective metaphor preferences. Using both correlational (Study 1 and pre-registered replication) and experimental (Study 2) methods, we find that death concern is generally associated with embracing metaphors about God.

The effects of slow breathing on affective responses to pain stimuli: An experimental study

Pain ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Zautra ◽  
Robert Fasman ◽  
Mary C. Davis ◽  
Arthur D. (Bud) Craig
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Slow Breathing ◽  
Pain Stimuli

The Affect Regulation in Cancer framework: Understanding affective responding across the cancer trajectory

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kangas ◽  
James J Gross
Keyword(s):  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Affective Science ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cancer Trajectory ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Affective dimensions of cancer have long been a central concern in the field of psycho-oncology. Recent developments in the field of affective science suggest the value of incorporating insights from the burgeoning literature on affect regulation. Accordingly, the objective of this article is to build on prior work in this area by applying a process-oriented affect regulation framework to the various phases of the cancer trajectory. The Affect Regulation in Cancer framework is adapted from Gross’ process model of emotion regulation, and its aim is to integrate recent advances in affective science with work in the field of psycho-oncology. The basic elements of the affect generative and affect regulatory processes are outlined across the various phases of the cancer trajectory. Our proposed model provides a useful heuristic framework in advancing research on the ways people manage their affective responses throughout the cancer trajectory.

The Impact of Affective Reactions on Attitudes toward the Advertisement and the Brand: A Step toward Ecological Validity

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Derbaix
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Brand Attitude ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Television Advertisements ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
The Impact

The author investigates the impact of affective reactions elicited by television advertisements on two variables of major interest in advertising: attitude toward the advertisement (Aad) and postexposure brand attitude (Abp). Previous research has suffered from using non-natural settings, verbal measures of affect, and unknown brands. The author's study avoids forced exposure, uses a real program in which real commercials for unknown and known brands were embedded, and interviews subjects after they have viewed all the commercials. Thus, it offers a more natural setting in which to examine whether previously established relations between affective reactions and Aad and attitude toward the brand (Ab) still hold. The author measures affective reactions through facial expressions, as well as classical verbal measures, and finds that the contribution of affective responses to Aad and Abp is evident for verbal, but not facial, measures of affect. The impact of affective responses varies in a theoretically predictable way across familiar and unfamiliar brands, with the latter being more influenced by verbal affective reactions generated by the advertisement. The author presents several explanations for the results and offers issues for further research.

The Role of Persuasive Communications in Drug Dissuasion

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald P. Schlegel
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Persuasive Communications ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
Formal Communication

Many current programs in drug education are not based on sound social psychological principles; consequently, program effectiveness has been very mixed. This report presents an experimental study in which changes in marijuana attitudes and smoking intentions were attempted using the formal communication approach. Using this study as an example, problems and issues relevant to drug education are discussed, centered around the basic question “Who says what to whom with what effect?” Several “currently useful generalizations” derived from past research and the present study are suggested.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN GOAL ATTAINMENT AS A MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 715-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan M. Henkel ◽  
Verlin B. Hinsz
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Mood Induction ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Induction Procedure ◽  
Mood Induction Procedure

The experimental study of mood and affect requires the manipulation of mood experiences. There are some problems regarding the use of certain types of success and failure mood induction procedures and how they actually induce the desired mood. The authors hypothesized that success and failure in goal attainment would lead to desired differences in positive and negative affect. Results indicate that success in attaining a goal led to more positive affect and less negative affect, while failure in goal attainment resulted in less positive affect and more negative affect. These results demonstrate that goal-setting situations are viable ways to explore affective reactions and support success and failure in goal attainment as a method to induce desired moods.

Sites That Haunt

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roma Sendyka
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Dead Bodies

In this article, the author seeks to establish whether specific sites from Eastern Europe can be viewed as loci critiquing Pierre Nora’s seminal notion of lieux de mémoire. The sites in question are abandoned, clandestine locations of past violence and genocide, witnesses to wanton killings, today left with no memorial markers or inadequate ones. Without monuments, plaques, or fences, they might be understood as “completely forgotten,” as Claude Lanzmann once claimed. In opposition to that view, in the article the locations in question are interpreted as still potent agents in local processes of working with a traumatic past. Sites of mass violence and genocide are described as unheimlich and trigger strong affective reactions of fear, disgust, and shame whose actual causes remain unclear. This article analyzes possible catalysts of these powerful affective responses. The first hypothesis is grounded in the abundance of ghost stories in literary or artistic representations of the sites in question. The second hypothesis addresses the issue of the presence of dead bodies: human remains have never been properly neutralized by rituals. And finally, the third hypothesis explores the “effect of the affects” of non-sites of memory as the capacity of bodies to be moved by other bodies, the bodies affected in this case being those of the visitors to the uncanny sites.

scholarly journals Sweet Revenge Feels Less Bitter: Spontaneous Affective Reactions After Revenge Taking

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110199
Author(s):  
Andreas B. Eder ◽  
Anand Krishna ◽  
Vanessa Mitschke
Keyword(s):  
Affective Responses ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Indirect Measure ◽  
Control Person ◽  
Affect Misattribution Procedure ◽  
Affective Consequences ◽  
Retaliatory Action ◽  
Laboratory Task

Previous studies suggested that people feel better after revenge taking, while other studies showed that they feel worse. The interpretation of this research is however ambiguous due to its extensive reliance on self-report measures. The present research examined spontaneous affective responses after retaliatory punishments in a laboratory task using an indirect measure of affect (affect misattribution procedure). Experiment 1 showed positive reactions after noise punishments of a provocateur compared to a control person, but only in revenge-seeking participants. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and revealed that punishing either individual led to less positive responses than not punishing anyone. It is suggested that revenge taking is associated with brief pleasurable responses that can ameliorate negative affective consequences of retaliatory action. Revenge is sweet because it makes one feel better about one’s punitive action.

Connecting Research to Teaching: Affective Responses to Problem Solving

1993 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
pp. 761-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas B. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Reform Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Ideas ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Nonroutine Problems

The vision of the mathematics classroom that IS presented 1n the Natwnal Council of Teachers of Mathematics's Curriculum and Eualuation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) has inspired many of us to want to change the way in which we teach. We want to pose challenging problems, to see our students work cooperatively, and to have productive discussions with students about significant mathematical ideas. But as Ball and Schroeder have pointed out, that vision is “much more difficult to realize than to endorse” (1992, 69). We will encounter many difficulties as we move toward that ideal classroom of the future; getting students to respond positively to nonroutine problems or other tasks that require higher-orderthinking skills is one difficulty that teachers often face. Research suggests that students' affective reactions to nonroutine problems can be a source of both difficulty and support as we work to reform mathematics classrooms.

Expectancy and Birth Order as Determinants of Affective Responses to Isolation

1968 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Kathryn E. Link
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Check List ◽  
Isolation Room ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Affect Adjective

This study examined the roles of expectancy and birth order in producing affective responses to isolation. 40 male Ss were exposed to an 8-hr. isolation experience. Ss used an affect adjective check list to describe their affects on arrival, after being shown the isolation room and told the conditions (expectancy), and after emerging from isolation. Most Ss anticipated high levels of negative affects which were predictive of what they subsequently reported in describing their actual isolation experiences. Ss who spent a prior day in the laboratory reported less anxiety on the isolation day than they had anticipated. Firstborns anticipated more anxiety and depression than later-borns but did not differ from later-borns in their actual affective reactions to isolation.

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