Happy and Mindless, But Sad and Smart? The Impact of Affective States on Analytic Reasoning

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Norbert Schwarz ◽  
Herbert Bless
Keyword(s):  
Affective States ◽  
Analytic Reasoning ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Wording of Daily Diary Questions Matters: An Investigation of the Effect of Daily Diary Instructional Phrases on Respondents’ Recall Time frames (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur A. Stone ◽  
Cheng K. Fred Wen ◽  
Stefan Schneider ◽  
Doerte U. Junghaenel
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND Daily diaries are extensively used for examining participants' daily experience in behavioral and medical science. Whether participants recall their experiences within the time frames prescribed by task has received little attention. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study are to describe survey respondents' self-reported recall timeframe and to evaluate the impact of different daily diary items on respondents reported affective states. METHODS In this study, 577 participants completed a mood survey with one of four time frame instructions: 1) today, 2) since waking up today, 3) during the last 24 hours, or 4) in the last day. They were also asked to indicate the time periods they considered when answering these items and to recall the instructional phrases associated with the items. RESULTS Almost all participants in the "Today" (97%) and "Since waking up today" (94%)" conditions reported using time periods consistent with our expectations, while a lower proportion was observed in the "during the last 24 hours" (69%) condition. A diverse range of responses was observed in the "In the last day" condition. Furthermore, the instructions influenced the levels of some self-reported affects, although exploratory analyses were not able to identify the mechanism underlying this finding. CONCLUSIONS Overall, these results indicate that "Today" and "Since waking up today" are the most effective instructional phrases for inquiring about daily experience and that investigators should use caution when using the other two instructional phrases.

scholarly journals Intelligent Monitoring of Affective Factors Underlying Sport Performance by Means of Wearable and Mobile Technology

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Bailon ◽  
Miguel Damas ◽  
Hector Pomares ◽  
Daniel Sanabria ◽  
Pandelis Perakakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Complete Evaluation ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Physiological Variables ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The fluctuation of affective states is a contributing factor to sport performance variability. The context surrounding athletes during their daily life and the evolution of their physiological variables beyond sport events are relevant factors, as they modulate the affective state of the subject over time. However, traditional procedures to assess the affective state are limited to self-reported questionnaires within controlled settings, thus removing the impact of the context. This work proposes a multimodal, context-aware platform that combines the data acquired through smartphones and wearable sensors to assess the affective state of the athlete. The platform is aimed at ubiquitously monitoring the fluctuations of affective states during longitudinal studies within naturalistic environments, overcoming the limitations of previous studies and allowing for the complete evaluation of the factors that could modulate the affective state. This system will also facilitate and expedite the analysis of the relationship between affective states and sport performance.

scholarly journals Subjective ratings of emotive stimuli predict the impact of the COVID-19 quarantine on affective states

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. e0237631
Author(s):  
Héctor López-Carral ◽  
Klaudia Grechuta ◽  
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Keyword(s):  
Affective States ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The impact of comparative affective states on online brand perceptions: a five-country study

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 438-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikoletta-Theofania Siamagka ◽  
George Christodoulides ◽  
Nina Michaelidou
Keyword(s):  
Affective States ◽  
Country Study ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Dynamic experience of architectural forms affects arousal and valence perception in virtual environments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Presti ◽  
Davide Ruzzon ◽  
Pietro Avanzini ◽  
Fausto Caruana ◽  
Giacomo Rizzolatti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Side Walls ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Architectural Spaces

Abstract The built environment represents the stage surrounding our everyday life activities. To investigate the impact that architectural features have on individuals’ affective states, we measured their judgments of perceived valence (pleasant and unpleasant) and arousal after the dynamic experience of a progressive change of the environment within virtual decontextualized spaces. To this aim, we developed a parametric model which allowed to create 54 virtual architectural spaces characterized by a progressive change of side walls distance, ceiling and windows height as well as colour of the environment. Decreasing side walls distance, ceiling height variation as well as increasing windows height significantly affected the emotional state of the participants within virtual environments. Indeed, such architectural spaces generated high arousing and unpleasant states according to subjective judgement. Overall, we observed that valence and arousal scores are affected by all the dynamic form factors which modulated the spaciousness of the surrounding. Showing that virtual reality enables the possibility to measure the emotional impact of pure and decontextualized architectural features, we contribute to foster a human-centered approach to design where mental state of people is fundamental for the creation of novel spaces promoting wellbeing.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis of Impact of Social Platforms on the Market Share of a Company

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 540-543
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Lexical Resources ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Utility Evaluation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company

Sentimental analysis is also known as opinion mining or emotion AI. It refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis, computational linguistics and biometrics to systematically identify, extract, and study affective states and subjective information. In this paper, Amazon reviews and blogs are analyzed to detect the sentiment using linguistic feature utility. Evaluation of the usefulness of existing lexical resources as well as capturing information about the informal and creative language used in online service platform is done. The goal of this research is to show the impact on the market-share of Vivo in comparison with that of Oppo and highlight the reason for the impact.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Higher Education: Characterizing the Psychosocial Context of the Positive and Negative Affective States Using Classification and Regression Trees

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Romeo ◽  
Montserrat Yepes-Baldó ◽  
Miguel Ángel Soria ◽  
Maria Jayme
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regression Trees ◽  
Classification And Regression Trees ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Home Work ◽  
Negative Affective States ◽  
Classification And Regression ◽  
Work Interaction ◽  
The Impact

Our aim is to analyze the extent to which the psychosocial aspects can characterize the affective states of the teachers, administrative staff, and undergraduate and postgraduate students during the quarantine. A questionnaire was answered by 1,328 people from the community of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain. The survey was partially designed ad hoc, collecting indicators related to sociodemographic variables, the impact of COVID on the subjects or in their personal context, the psychosocial context of coexistence and perceived social support, characteristics related to the physical context during the quarantine, and labor conditions. Additionally, it included two validated instruments: the Survey Work-Home Interaction–Nijmegen for Spanish Speaking Countries (SWING-SSC) validated in Spanish and PANAS, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. Classification and Regression Trees (CART) were performed to identify which variables better characterize the participants' level of positive and negative affective states. Results according to groups showed that students are the ones who have suffered the most as a result of this situation (temporary employment regulation, higher scores in negative work-home and home-work interaction, lower scores in positive home-work interaction, and negative effects of teleworking). Additionally, they reported a higher mean score in interpersonal conflict and worse scores with regard to negative affective states. Based on sex, women were the ones whose environment was shown to be more frequently affected by the pandemic and who exhibited more negative effects of teleworking. In general terms, participants with the highest scores in negative affective states were those who perceived an increase in conflict and a high negative effect from work spilling over into their personal lives. On the contrary, participants with the highest levels of positive affective states were those with medium to low levels of negative home-work interaction, over 42.5 years old, and with medium to high levels of positive work-home interaction. Our results aim to help higher education to reflect on the need to adapt to this new reality, since the institutions that keep pace with evolving trends will be able to better attract, retain, and engage all the members of the university community in the years ahead.

The Impact of Affective States and Affective Shifts on Creative Ideation and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chun Lai ◽  
Shu-Ling Peng ◽  
Po-Sheng Huang ◽  
Hsueh-Chih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Affective States ◽  
Creative Ideation ◽  
The Impact

Affective states and ecological rationality in entrepreneurial decision making

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1182-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Catalina Fodor ◽  
Petru Lucian Curşeu ◽  
Alina Maria Fleştea
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Ecological Rationality ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
Entrepreneurial Decision ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of affective appraisal dimensions on the use of two ecologically rational, social heuristics: imitate the majority (IMH) and imitate the best (IBH) during an entrepreneurial strategic decision-making process (ESDM). Design/methodology/approach The authors test the hypotheses in a controlled field experiment, on a final sample of 98 entrepreneurs. Findings The study shows that entrepreneurs experiencing affect described by certainty appraisal display a preference for relying on IMH, but not on IBH. Moreover, entrepreneurs who experience unpleasant affect tend to rely more on IMH, rather than IBH. The reverse is true for the entrepreneurs who experience positive affect. Finally, the use of IMH is most likely under unpleasant and certain affect, while the use of IBH is most likely under pleasant and certain affect. Originality/value The main contribution of this study is that it provides initial support for the impact of affective appraisal dimensions on the use of ecologically rational heuristics (i.e. heuristics that save important resources, but bring beneficial results) during an ESDM process.

scholarly journals The impact of affect on organizational justice perceptions: A test of the affect infusion model

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 893-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yina Mao ◽  
Chi-Sum Wong ◽  
Xiangnan Tao ◽  
Chunyan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Personal Relevance ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Group Context ◽  
Justice Perceptions ◽  
Affect Infusion Model ◽  
The Impact

AbstractHow individuals form justice perceptions has been a fundamental question for organizational justice research. While most researchers have treated justice perceptions as a result of deliberate cognitive processes, a limited number of studies have examined the role of affect in forming justice perceptions. Using the affect infusion model, we investigate the predictive role of affect in forming justice perceptions and consider two moderating contextual factors: personal relevance and group context. Two experimental studies, with a student sample and an employee sample, were conducted. Results confirm that participants in positive affective states perceived higher distributive and procedural justice than those in negative affective states. Moreover, personal relevance moderates the relationships between affect and both distributive and procedural justice perceptions, and the relationship is enhanced as the level of personal relevance increases. The results also suggest that group context constrains the influence of an individual participant’s affect on procedural justice.

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