scholarly journals Conversational Patterns and Listener Responses Associated With an Enhanced Fading Affect Bias After Social Disclosure

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 552-585
Author(s):  
Kate Muir ◽  
Charity Brown ◽  
Anna Madill
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Social Disclosure

The fading affect bias (FAB) is a phenomenon of autobiographical memory whereby negative emotions associated with event memories fade in intensity over time more than positive emotions. Social disclosure enhances the FAB and listener responsiveness during social disclosure is an important facet; however, little is known about the nature of listener verbal responses that facilitate an enhanced FAB. In this study, we used discourse analysis to explore listener verbal responses and conversational patterns associated with an enhanced FAB after social disclosure—backchanneling, in which the listener shows they are paying attention to the story underway; displays of understanding whereby the listener shows awareness of the speaker’s emotional state; and positive facilitation, characterized by mutual development of positive interpretations of both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. We suggest that such listener responses are similar to those described in the verbal person-centered framework, and the emotional benefits of social disclosure are in part collaboratively created by conversationalists.

scholarly journals When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0259473
Author(s):  
Marrissa D. Grant ◽  
Alexandra Flores ◽  
Eric J. Pedersen ◽  
David K. Sherman ◽  
Leaf Van Boven
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fox News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
Dissonance Theory ◽  
Over Time

The present study, conducted immediately after the 2020 presidential election in the United States, examined whether Democrats’ and Republicans’ polarized assessments of election legitimacy increased over time. In a naturalistic survey experiment, people (N = 1,236) were randomly surveyed either during the week following Election Day, with votes cast but the outcome unknown, or during the following week, after President Joseph Biden was widely declared the winner. The design unconfounded the election outcome announcement from the vote itself, allowing more precise testing of predictions derived from cognitive dissonance theory. As predicted, perceived election legitimacy increased among Democrats, from the first to the second week following Election Day, as their expected Biden win was confirmed, whereas perceived election legitimacy decreased among Republicans as their expected President Trump win was disconfirmed. From the first to the second week following Election Day, Republicans reported stronger negative emotions and weaker positive emotions while Democrats reported stronger positive emotions and weaker negative emotions. The polarized perceptions of election legitimacy were correlated with the tendencies to trust and consume polarized media. Consumption of Fox News was associated with lowered perceptions of election legitimacy over time whereas consumption of other outlets was associated with higher perceptions of election legitimacy over time. Discussion centers on the role of the media in the experience of cognitive dissonance and the implications of polarized perceptions of election legitimacy for psychology, political science, and the future of democratic society.

scholarly journals Weibo users’ emotion and sentiment orientation in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hao Gao ◽  
Difan Guo ◽  
Jing Wu ◽  
Lina Li
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Significant Downward Trend ◽  
Sentiment Orientation ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Objective: This study aimed to explore Chinese people’s attitudes to the official application of TCM in COVID-19 treatment. Methods: We collected data referring to TCM on Weibo from 0:00 on January 24th, 2020, to 23:59:59 on March 31st, 2020 (Beijing time). Besides, this paper utilized DLUT- Emotion ontology to analyze the sentiment orientation and emotions of selected data and then conducted a text analysis. Results: According to DLUT-Emotion ontology, we examined three sentiment orientations of 215,565 valid Weibo posts. Among them,25,025 posts were judged as positive emotions, accounting for approximately 12%; 22,362 were regarded as negative emotions, accounting for about 10%; and 168,178 were judged as neutral emotions, accounting for approximately 78%. Results indicate that the words judged as ‘Good’ have the highest frequency, and words marked as ‘Happy’ have increased over time. The word frequency of ‘Fear’ and ‘Sadness’ showed a significant downward trend. Conclusion: Weibo users have a relatively positive attitude to the TCM in the COVID-19 treatment in general. Results of text analysis show that data with negative emotions is essentially an expression of public opinions to supporting TCM or not. Texts of ‘Fear’ and ‘Sadness’ do not reflect users’ negative attitudes to TCM.

scholarly journals PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH SEMANTICS OF EMOTIONS IN THE BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
A. Douhal
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Semantic Group ◽  
The Impact

The proposed research is carried out in the mainstream of emotive linguistics which is an actual line of scientific research today. To denote emotional experiences the language has a variety of means – lexical, phonetic, grammatical. The article analyzes phraseological units with the semantics of emotions in the Belarusian language recorded in the two-volume dictionary "Dictionary of phraseological units" by І. Ya. Lepeshau (2008). These phraseological units are united in one phraseological semantic field within which one can distinguish several semantic groups: 1) the semantic group "emotional state"; 2) the semantic group "emotional relationship"; 3) the semantic group "external manifestation of emotions;" 4) the semantic group "emotional peace". Each group has its own integral semantic feature. The number of phraseological units is dominated by the first group. Separately a group of causative phraseological units was singled out and considered, the integral semantic sign for which is the combination of the 'emotion' seme with the 'impact' seme. These phraseological units refer to the emotional state of an object caused by the actions of a subject. It was noted that in all the examined semantic groups the designation of negative emotions (fear, anxiety, excitement, despair, anger, hatred, sadness, shame, melancholy) is dominant, the designation of positive emotions is much less common (joy, happiness, sympathy, love). Many phraseological units have close semantics so they can form synonymic series. Anthony is less common. There were recorded cases of enantiosemia – the presence of opposing meanings within one phraseological unit. The phraseological material indicates that metaphor is the main way of forming figurativness.

scholarly journals МОЖЛИВОСТІ АНАЛІЗУ ВАРІАБЕЛЬНОСТІ РИТМУ СЕРЦЯ В ДІАГНОСТИЦІ ЕМОЦІЙНОГО СТАНУ ЛЮДИНИ

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
І. Chaykovskyi ◽  
V. Kalnysh ◽  
Т. Yena ◽  
А. Yena ◽  
Yu. Vyrovyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Organization ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Heart Rhythm ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
The Third

The is presented the development of method for evaluation of emotional state of man, what suitable for use at the workplace based on analysis of heart rate (HR) variability.28 healthy volunteers were examined. 3 audiovisual clips were consistently presented on the display of the personal computer for each of them. One clip contained information originating the positive emotions, the second one – negative emotions, the third one – neutral. All possible pairs of the emotional states were analysed with help of one- and multi-dimensional linear discriminant analysis based on HR variability.Showing the emotional video-clips (of both signs) causes reliable slowing of HR frequency and also some decreasing of HR variability. In addition, negative emotions cause regularizing and simplification of structural organization of heart rhythm. Accuracy of discrimination for pair “emotional – neutral” video clips was 98 %, for pair “rest – neutral” was 74 %, for pair “positive – negative” was 91 %.Analysis of HR variability enables to determine the emotional state of observed person at the workplace with high reliability.

scholarly journals Temporal dynamics of emotions within a workday

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-243
Author(s):  
JaeYoon Chang ◽  
A. L Cook ◽  
S. C Payne
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Diurnal Patterns ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

The purpose of this study was to examine how positive and negative emotions fluctuate over time within one workday and to investigate the moderating effects of neuroticism and job satisfaction. Data were obtained from 201 Seoul citizens in Korea using the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). Data revealed that negative emotions increased over time; positive emotions did not show such a pattern. Job satisfaction correlated positively with average positive emotions and negatively with average negative emotions. Neuroticism correlated significantly and in opposite directions with average positive and negative emotions, but did not correlate significantly with the variability of emotions within a work day. Additionally, neuroticism had a significant moderating effect on the changing pattern of negative (but not positive) emotions over time, such that the negative emotions of workers with high levels of neuroticism increased more sharply than the negative emotions of workers with low levels of neuroticism. Contrary to expectation, job satisfaction did not moderate the pattern of positive or negative emotions at work. Changing patterns of negative emotions may be predictive of occupational accidents and diurnal patterns of positive emotions may be predictive of optimal concentration and efficiency at work. These patterns may also have implications for when we administer surveys in the workplace, when a boss should share bad news with his/her employees.

scholarly journals Emociones en aulas con Neuroeducación: diagnóstico en el contexto universitario

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Kenna Josefina Ferrer Villasmil ◽  
Lorelis Molero Rodríguez ◽  
Anirelis Leal Pacheco ◽  
Omaira Añez Fernández ◽  
María De los Ángeles Araque
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The University

Actualmente está científicamente probado que las emociones desempeñan un papel decisivo en la formación de la memoria. Por esta razón, en educación, el docente es pieza fundamental para incluir este aspecto en la enseñanza, planificando y creando acontecimientos didácticos emocionalmente positivos en el aula. En consonancia con ello, el objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las emociones predominantes en los estudiantes de Química Analítica de la Escuela de Bioanálisis de la Universidad del Zulia luego de aplicar un programa de estrategias neurodidácticas basadas en la memoria de largo plazo. La investigación fue descriptiva, no experimental, transeccional, de campo, conformada por una población de 197 estudiantes correspondientes a los períodos académicos U-2015 y I-2016, bajo un muestreo por conveniencia. Para el procesamiento de los datos se emplearon técnicas descriptivas y prueba t de Student para muestras independientes a través del programa SPSS®. Los resultados revelaron predominio de emociones positivas de inspiración, agradecimiento y amor en ambos grupos experimentales; seguidos de alegría, orgullo, esperanza y diversión (también alto). Por otro lado, la emoción negativa más ponderada en ambas poblaciones fue la vergüenza (nivel bajo), seguido de enojo (U-2015), ansiedad y miedo (I-2016). El resto de las emociones negativas se presentaron a nivel muy bajo. Finalmente, al comparar los estados emocionales de los estudiantes en ambos períodos se obtuvo que el estado emocional positivo predominó sobre el estado emocional negativo (p<0.05), señalando así, que la metodología aplicada bajo el enfoque de las neurociencias influyó eficaz y satisfactoriamente en las emociones de los estudiantes. PALABRAS CLAVE: neuroeducación; emociones; emociones positivas; emociones negativas; memoria. Emotions in aulas with Neuroeducation: diagnostic in the university context ABSTRACT It is currently scientifically proven that emotions play a decisive role in memory formation. For this reason, in education, the teacher is fundamental to include this aspect in teaching, planning and creating emotionally positive didactic events in the classroom. In line with this, the objective of this study was to analyze the prevailing emotions in the students of Analytical Chemistry of the School of Bioanalysis of the University of Zulia after implementing a program of neurodidactic strategies based on the long-term memory. The research was descriptive, non-experimental, transactional, field, consisting of a population of 197 students corresponding to the academic periods U-2015 and I-2016, under a sampling for convenience. For the processing of the data, descriptive techniques and student t-test were used for independent samples through the SPSS® program. The results revealed predominance of positive emotions of inspiration, gratitude, and love in both experimental groups; followed by joy, pride, hope and fun (also high). On the other hand, the most weighted negative emotion in both populations (low level) was shame. Then anger (U-2015), anxiety and fear (I-2016), also low. All other negative emotions were presented at an exceptionally low level. Finally, comparing the emotional states of the students in both periods it was obtained that the positive emotional state dominated the negative emotional state (p<0.05), thus noting, that the methodology applied under the approach of neurosciences effectively and satisfactorily influenced students' emotions. KEYWORDS: neuroeducation; emotions; positive emotions; negative emotions; memory.

scholarly journals The Influence of Emotional State on Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency in College Students: The Mediation Role of Regulatory Emotion Self-efficacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guifang Fu ◽  
Jingwen Liu ◽  
Haichun Liu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Major Type ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction

In order to explore the situation of college students’ emotional state, regulatory emotion self-efficacy and mobile phone addiction tendency as well as their relationships, a total of 350 college students were assessed with Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale (MPATS), Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) and the Scale of Regulatory Emotional Self-efficacy (SRESE). The result showed that: (1) 40.86% of college students had the tendency of cell phone addiction, which was serious; 72.0% of college students were in a positive emotional state, 22% were in a negative emotional state; college students' regulatory emotion self-efficacy was in the middle level; (2) there was no gender, grade, major type, household registration type (rural and urban) and whether only child difference in mobile phone addiction tendency; (3) the positive emotions of college students were negatively correlated with the tendency of mobile phone addiction, while the negative emotions were positively correlated with the tendency of mobile phone addiction, and the positive emotion was positively correlated with regulatory emotional self-efficacy；(4) the regulatory emotion self-efficacy had a partial mediating effect between the positive emotions and mobile phone addiction tendency and had no mediating effect between the negative emotions and mobile phone addiction tendency. 

From Hope to Despair, and Back

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaira Hamama-Raz ◽  
Yonit Zabari ◽  
Eli Buchbinder
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Persistent Vegetative State ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Coping Processes ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Over Time

In this study we examined the meaning of being the wife of a vegetative patient over time. The research was based on semistructured interviews with 12 wives of husbands who were diagnosed with persistent vegetative state between 1 year 2 months and 10 years prior to the interview. We found that there were two contradicting forces common to all of the wives across time. First, there was a process of finding significance in the situation based on acceptance of the husband’s condition and focusing on positive emotions and values such as love, commitment, and loyalty. Second, the wives described an increase in negative emotions such as sadness, pain, loneliness, loss, and grief. These findings are discussed in the context of research and theoretical literature about coping processes and the meaning of caring for patients in a persistent vegetative state.

scholarly journals Some semantic aspects of Spanish verbs used in the syntactic constructions describing the peculiar properties of a person’s emotional life

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
N. Mikheeva
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
Main Components

This article is dedicated to investigation of the verbs used in the syntactic constructions describing the influence that a person has on emotions he experiences. These constructions show that the subject of emotion tends to experience some emotion that is usually positive o he is already experiencing it but tries to control this emotion o feeling and influences over it in order to continue to experience it in  future in case of positive emotions or, on the contrary, stop experiencing it in case of negative emotions. The main components of these structures are a predicate name of emotions, which designates positive and negative emotions and a verb the semantic meaning of which conveys the way the subject of emotion influences this emotion o feeling in order to begin to experience it or to extend its existence, or that it has ceased to exist in this subject. The aim of this study is to analyze the semantic features of verbs, which are used with the predicate names of emotions in the above semantic constructions and to reveal the character of expression of emotions and emotional life of a person.Spanish has a large number of verbs used in syntactic constructions to express the idea of control that a person exercises over his emotions and feelings. The analyzed constructions show that the subject of emotions plays an active role, and emotions are passive because they depend on the will of the subject. The analyzed constructions demonstrate the richness of linguistic means, in general, and of verbs used metaphorically, in particular, which a person uses to describe the possibilities of controlling his emotional state and the processes of his emotional and spiritual life.

Don’t Put Me in This Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Jort de Vreeze ◽  
Christina Matschke
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Group Memberships

Abstract. Not all group memberships are self-chosen. The current research examines whether assignments to non-preferred groups influence our relationship with the group and our preference for information about the ingroup. It was expected and found that, when people are assigned to non-preferred groups, they perceive the group as different to the self, experience negative emotions about the assignment and in turn disidentify with the group. On the other hand, when people are assigned to preferred groups, they perceive the group as similar to the self, experience positive emotions about the assignment and in turn identify with the group. Finally, disidentification increases a preference for negative information about the ingroup.

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