Mixed Emotions Viewed from the Psychological Constructionist Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Situation ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Affective Reaction ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Core Affect

Feeling bad is one thing, judging something to be bad another. This hot/cold distinction helps resolve the debate between bipolar and bivariate accounts of affect. A typical affective reaction includes both core affect (feeling good or bad) and judgments of the affective qualities of various aspects of the stimulus situation (which can have both good and bad aspects). Core affect is described by a bipolar valence dimension in which feeling good precludes simultaneously feeling bad and vice versa. Judgments of affective quality of opposite valence can occur simultaneously because the stimulus situation has many aspects. Affective reaction can also include an emotional meta-experience, which can, but rarely does, embrace simultaneous emotion categories of opposite valence.

Personal Meanings Inspired by the Beauty of Paintings

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Piotr Oleś ◽  
Elżbieta Chmielnicka-Kuter ◽  
Tomasz Jankowski ◽  
Piotr Francuz ◽  
Paweł Augustynowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Universal Themes

Abstract For many generations, works of art have been a source for experiencing beauty. They add to the wealth of our culture because they convey universal themes and values. In this study, we treat paintings as a stimulus for personal story-telling. The purpose was to explore the affective quality of personal meanings present in autobiographical narratives. Our findings show that subjective ratings of the beauty of figurative paintings are linked with the quality and theme of personal experiences recalled in response to viewing them, but not related to the length of the story. ‘Beautiful’ pictures elicit descriptions of desirable experiences associated with passive contemplation and satisfied self-enhancement motive. ‘Non-beautiful’ pictures call to mind difficult experiences linked with frustration. The experts formulated longer self-narratives inspired by paintings rated beautiful in comparison to laypersons, and laypersons formulated longer self-narratives inspired by paintings rated not beautiful in comparison to experts. The results are discussed in connection to the nature of the aesthetic experience and specificity of personal maenings.

The Face of Judgement in Measure for Measure

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Kevin Curran
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
The Face

Like a number of other Renaissance comedies and romances, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure ends with a scene of judgment in which punishment and reward is distributed among a group of characters. Measure for Measure insistently links judgment to the spatial and revelatory dynamics of facing and unmasking. Adducing evidence from two early modern archives – legal writing on the theory and practice of judgment and treatises on physiology and faculty psychology – Kevin Curran addresses two related questions: (1) What can a historical understanding of the face in early modern culture tell us about the phenomenology of judgment in Measure for Measure? And (2) how does Shakespeare’s staging of judgment create a participatory experience in the playhouse grounded in sensation? The essay ultimately argues that the face in Measure for Measure functions as a hinge between the ethical relation of judgment and the ethical relation of theater, one that insists of the embodied and affective quality of both forms of interaction.

scholarly journals 1C3-4 A Framework for Affective Quality of Ear-related Product Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S426-S429
Author(s):  
Kyungrak Choi ◽  
Kimin Ban ◽  
Jaeho Choe ◽  
Eui S. Jung
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Related Product

Affective Quality of Audio Feedback on Mobile Devices in Different Contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Seebode ◽  
Robert Schleicher ◽  
Sebastian Möller
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
User Performance ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Audio Feedback ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Specific Feedback ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Sound is a common means to give feedback on mobile devices. Much research has been conducted to examine the learnability and user performance with systems that provide audio feedback. In many cases a training period is necessary to understand the meaning of a specific feedback, because their functional connotation may be ambiguous. Additionally, no standardized evaluation method to measure the subjective quality of these messages has been established; especially regarding the affective quality of feedback sounds. The authors describe a series of experiments to investigate the affective impression of audio feedback on mobile devices as well as their functional meaning under varying contexts prototypical for mobile phone usage. Results indicate that context influences the emotional impression and that there is a relation between affective quality and functional appropriateness. These findings confirm that emotional stimuli are suitable as feedback messages in the context of mobile HCI and that context matters for the affective quality of sounds emitted by mobile phones.

Relations among Early Adolescents' Parent-Adolescent Attachment, Perceived Social Competence, and Friendship Quality

2011 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa W. Boling ◽  
Carolyn McNamara Barry ◽  
Beth A. Kotchick ◽  
Jen Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Adolescent Attachment

To assess whether the relation between attachment and friendship quality may be explained by social competence, 113 students in Grades 7 and 8 from the Baltimore metropolitan area completed self-report questionnaires on the variables of interest. In hierarchical regression analyses, both maternal Affective Quality of Attachment and the interaction of School with paternal Affective Quality of Attachment predicted social competence. Also, the interaction of School with paternal Affective Quality of Attachment predicted negative friendship features, whereas social competence predicted positive friendship features. These findings provide support for a pathway between adolescents' attachment to both parents and adolescents' perceived social competence and, in turn, their friendship quality.

Determinants of Personal Space in Young Children: Perception of Distance Cues

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail F. Melson
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Social Cue ◽  
Affective Quality

Two methods of assessing personal space in young children were examined in a group of 24 boys and 24 girls, aged 3 to 6 yr. When sex of peer figures and affect attributed to them were varied, 3-yr.-olds made distance-cue judgments based on affect but failed to use affect cues in structuring personal space. However, 4- to 6-yr.-olds readily perceived and used distance to communicate the affective quality of peer relations. On both measures, perception of distance cues increased with age. Only girls also used sex of figures as a social cue in depicting appropriate distances.

Temperament and Attentional Bias in Vocal Emotional Stroop Tasks

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Paelecke ◽  
Yvonne Paelecke–Habermann ◽  
Peter Borkenau
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Task Switch ◽  
Vocal Response ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Stroop Tasks

Human information processing is influenced by the affective quality of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli. A widely known example is the emotional variant of the colour–naming Stroop task. Although participants are not instructed to attend to valence, it nevertheless influences response times. We studied how persons differ in ignoring the irrelevant valence of stimuli and how such differences are related to personality traits. In two emotional Stroop tasks using a vocal response mode, participants were instructed to name the colour of unpleasant and pleasant words presented in different physical colours. In Study 2, we introduced a second task to increase the cognitive load. Across both studies, extraversion and approach temperament were associated with higher interferences by pleasant words. Neuroticism and avoidance temperament, however, were associated with higher interferences by unpleasant words only when cognitive load increased because of a task switch. This finding suggests that highly neurotic individuals can mitigate influences of emotional stimuli on information processing under conditions of low cognitive load. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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