Emotional responses to ridicule and teasing: Should gelotophobes react differently?

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Platt
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Response Pattern ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Play Signals ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Negative Feelings

AbstractThe present study examined the hypothesis that gelotophobia blurs the emotional responses between ridicule and good-natured teasing. Ridicule should induce negative feelings and teasing happiness and surprise in individuals not suffering gelotophobia. Gelotophobes will discriminate less between the two. Their responses to teasing will be similar to ridicule. A sample of adults (N = 105) specified which emotions they would experience in nine scenarios of social interactions pre-selected to represent bullying ridicule or good-natured teasing. Ridicule elicited strong responses of shame, fear and anger, and other negative emotions but low happiness and surprise. Responses of gelotophobes and non-gelotophobes were highly parallel, with the exception that among extreme gelotophobes stronger shame and fear were displayed than among non-gelotophobes. Good-natured teasing seemed to elicit happiness and surprise and low levels of negative emotions among the non-gelotophobes. Among the gelotophobes, however, it was the negative emotions; primarily shame, fear, and anger that were exhibited as the emotional response pattern. In fact, the emotion profile to good-humored teasing was highly similar to the profile in response to the bullying-ridiculing situations. Gelotophobes' perceptions do not discriminate between playful teasing and good-natured teasing. They do not identify the safe and non-threatening quality of the teasing situations. Treatment of gelotophobes should, therefore, involve helping them to identify the play-signals, i.e., the meta-message that the interaction is playful, for fun and that no harm is intended.

scholarly journals Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qifang Bao ◽  
Edward Burnell ◽  
Ann M. Hughes ◽  
Maria C. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Feedback Information ◽  
Feedback Design ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Highly Correlated

Emotional responses to a product can be critical in influencing how the product will be used. This study explores the emotions that arise from users' interaction with eco-feedback products, and investigates links between emotions and users' resource conservation behaviors. In-lab experiments were conducted with 68 participants of varying backgrounds. Each participant was shown sketches of four conceptual designs of eco-feedback products and reported how they would feel and behave in different scenarios using the products. Two styles of eco-feedback design, quantitative and figurative, were compared to each other and were compared to neutral designs, which had little or no feedback information. Results showed that taking resource conservation actions such as turning off lights was highly correlated with negative emotions toward wasting resources, such as guilt, upset, embarrassment, and annoyance. Users' evaluations of esthetics, usefulness, and overall quality of eco-feedback products, however, were highly correlated with positive emotions toward resource conservation, described as satisfied, proud, interested, and joyful. Figurative designs were observed to evoke much stronger emotions among younger participants than older ones. Ultimately, we hope our findings are useful to the designers of eco-feedback products.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP OF CLINICAL AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICSOF HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH PSORIASIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
S L Solovjeva ◽  
A G Ruzhinskikh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Current Idea ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the current idea of the relationship between negative emotions and severity of psoriasis. It concludes investigations of the relationship between such negative feelings as hostility, ag- gressiveness and severity of chronic dermatosis; consideration of various variants of aggressive behavior and their relation to hostility. The article gives recommendations for enhancing the quality of care in hospitals for patients with psoriasis with a hostile, aggressive behavior.

scholarly journals The Effect of Hair Salon Service Quality and Cognitive and Emotional Responses on Revisit Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1095-1104
Author(s):  
Ji-Ae Uhm ◽  
Eun-Jun Park
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Cognitive Response ◽  
Hair Salon ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This study was conducted to verify the mediating effect of cognitive and emotional responses in the effect of hair salon service quality on customer's revisit intention. The subjects of this study were 482 hair salon customers, and data were collected through self-response questionnaire on service quality, revisit intention, and cognitive and emotional responses. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a significant positive correlation between service quality, revisit intention, and cognitive and emotional responses. Second, technical quality and interaction quality of service quality had a significant positive effect on revisit intention. Third, the mediating effect of cognitive response was verified in the relationship between service quality and revisit intention. Fourth, there was a mediating effect of emotional response in the relationship between service quality and revisit intention. Based on the results of this study, a plan to increase the revisit intention of hair salon customers was discussed.

Intensity of Emotions Conveyed and Elicited by Familiar and Unfamiliar Music

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Omar Ali ◽  
Zehra F. Peynircioǧǧlu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses

WE REPLICATED PREVIOUS FINDINGS AND DEMONSTRATED that familiarity with musical stimuli increased 'liking' or 'preference' for the stimuli. We also demonstrated that familiarity increased the intensity of emotional responses to music, but only when the stimuli were made highly familiar through en masse repetitions (Experiment 3) rather than through interspersed repetitions (Experiment 1). In addition, intensity ratings were higher when participants were asked to judge the emotion conveyed by the music than when they were asked to judge the emotion elicited by the same music (Experiments 2 and 3). Finally, positive emotions (i.e., happy and calm) were rated higher compared with negative emotions (i.e., sad and angry) for both types of ratings (i.e., conveyed or elicited). The findings suggest that familiarity plays a role in modulating a listener's emotional response to music.

scholarly journals Perceived Competence and Intrinsic Motivation in Mathematics: Exploring Latent Profiles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8707
Author(s):  
Susana Rodríguez ◽  
Iris Estévez ◽  
Isabel Piñeiro ◽  
Antonio Valle ◽  
Tania Vieites ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Mathematics Performance ◽  
The Third ◽  
Latent Profiles ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Motivational Profiles ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Negative Feelings

This study aims to use a person-centred approach to identify possible student motivational profiles in mathematics. These profiles are made up of various combinations of two motivational variables: perceived competence and intrinsic motivation. Once the profiles are identified, we examine the differences between them in negative emotions and mathematics performance. Our sample comprised 863 students (50.2% boys, 49.8% girls) aged between 9 and 13 years old. The results indicated three motivational profiles. One group of students with moderately high perceived competence and intrinsic motivation who demonstrated the best performance and the lowest levels of negative feelings about themselves. A second group was defined by moderately low levels of perceived competence and intrinsic motivation. The third group was characterized by very low perceived competence and low intrinsic motivation and demonstrated the worst performance in mathematics and the highest levels of anxiety and negative emotions towards mathematics.

scholarly journals Comparison of the Quality of Life and Emotional Responses in Kidney Transplant Recipients from Living and Deceased Donors in Nephrology Clinics

2021 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roghayeh Esmaeili ◽  
Ziba Farahani Barziabadi ◽  
Mahdi Khabaz Khoob
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Living Donor ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Living Donors ◽  
Kidney Recipients ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Deceased Donors

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is one of the essential measures in assessing a patient's status after kidney transplant, and emotional response is an important factor in evaluating the patient’s compatibility with the transplant. Also, emotional response affects a patient’s QoL. Objectives: This study aimed to compare the QoL and emotional responses of kidney recipients from deceased and living donors. Methods: This descriptive comparative study randomly selected 118 kidney transplant patients (67 recipients from living donors and 51 recipients from deceased) referred to the Nephrology Clinic of Tehran University of Medical Sciences for a post-surgery follow-up. The QoL questionnaire for patients with renal transplants introduced by Laupacis et al. and the emotional response questionnaire (ERQ) by Ziegelmann et al. were used in this study. For data analysis, Mann-Whitney, independent t-test, and Pearson’s correlation tests were used. All the analyses were performed using SPSS software version 20. Results: The kidney recipients from living donors had significantly higher QoL score (especially emotionally) compared with kidney recipients from deceased donors (P=0.04). The score of emotional response was higher in recipients from a living donor, which is related to feeling guilty, transplant disclosure. Furthermore, recipients from a living donor felt guiltier and were unwilling to disclose their transplant compared with recipients from deceased donors. Conclusions: Feeling of guilt and being anxious about transplant disclosure were higher in recipients from living donors. A significant difference was observed in the QoL and emotional response between the two groups of kidney recipients. Therefore, it is important to involve the transplant team, specifically nurses, in the identification of emotional response and planning accordingly to improve the patients’ QoL, especially in recipients from a living donor.

Beauty and Beyond

2019 ◽  
pp. 228-260
Author(s):  
Paul Thagard
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Physiological Changes ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Creative Artists

The main mental and social functions of art are the expression and transmission of emotions, in relationships among creative artists and their appreciators. Artistic emotions are semantic pointers in brains that integrate sensory representations with combinations of physiological changes and cognitive appraisals. The central emotional response to art is beauty, resulting from pleasurable emotional coherence through unity in diversity of sensory representations. Art generates other important emotional responses, including interest, shock, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust. Art is good or bad depending on the intensity and quality of the emotions that it generates. Art can offer valuable contributions to the needs-related emotions of its producers and appreciators. Art occurs at the social intersection of mind and world when creators and appreciators use their brains to generate and perceive works that stimulate emotions.

scholarly journals Nursing Students' Peer Feedback Types and Emotional Response, Quality of Feedback, and Self-efficacy for Learning from Peer Feedback in Skill Training

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-196
Author(s):  
Young A Park ◽  
Eun Jung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Feedback Data

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify types of peer feedback in nursing skills performance training and to investigate emotional response, perceived quality of feedback and self-efficacy for learning from peer feedback. Methods: A total of 110 second-year nursing students attending fundamentals of nursing classes at a university participated in 2017. Participants received peer feedback from one selected colleague who observed their skills performance, and completed a questionnaire. Contents of peer feedback video recordings were transcribed and classified into seven types of feedback. Data were analyzed using an independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. Results: Participants mostly received feedback of 'correcting' and 'providing information.' Positive emotional responses from peer feedback were above medium, and negative emotional responses were low. The perceived quality of peer feedback was moderate and self-efficacy for learning was high. Quality of feedback correlated with negative emotional response (r=-.24, p=.014), and self-efficacy for learning (r=.35, p<.001). Self-efficacy for learning correlated with intimacy with peers (r=.24, p=.011) and positive emotional response (r=.21, p=.028). Conclusion: The results suggest that peer feedback in skill training could be used in terms of emotional response and self-efficacy for learning.

scholarly journals Beyond Emotional Similarity: The Role of Situation-Specific Motives

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Goldenberg ◽  
David Garcia ◽  
Eran Halperin ◽  
jamil zaki ◽  
Danyang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Group Members

It is well established that people often express emotions that are similar to those of other group members. However, people do not always express emotions that are similar to other group members, and the factors that determine when similarity occurs are not yet clear. In the current project, we examined whether certain situations activate specific emotional motives that influence the tendency to show emotional similarity. To test this possibility, we considered emotional responses to political situations that either called for weak (Studies 1 and 3) or strong (Study 2 and 4) negative emotions. Findings revealed that the motivation to feel weak emotions led people to be more influenced by weaker emotions than their own, whereas the motivation to feel strong emotions led people to be more influenced by stronger emotions than their own. Intriguingly, these motivations led people to change their emotions even after discovering that others’ emotions were similar to their initial emotional response. These findings are observed both in a lab task (Studies 1-3) and in real-life online interactions on Twitter (Study 4). Our findings enhance our ability to understand and predict emotional influence processes in different contexts and may therefore help explain how these processes unfold in group behavior.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista K. Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Moral Maturity ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
The People ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Negative Feelings

The conclusion summarizes the main aims of the book. Even though shame can be a painful and damaging emotion, we would still not be better off without it. A continued liability to shame shows that we accept that we are not always the people we think we are, but accepting this fact is a sign of moral maturity. Additionally, this conclusion raises questions about moral philosophy’s commitment to positive moral psychology. Although some philosophers have defended negative emotions, the field as a whole still treats positive feelings as better and more desirable than negative feelings. But it is reasonable to ask whether moral agents should try to be “emotional saints.”

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