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Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal
Many cognitive accounts of emotional processing assume that emotions have representational content that can be influenced by beliefs and desires. It is generally thought that emotions also have non-cognitive, affective components, including valence and arousal. To clarify the impact of cognition on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22783982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.704351 |
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author | Nicolle, Antoinette Goel, Vinod |
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description | Many cognitive accounts of emotional processing assume that emotions have representational content that can be influenced by beliefs and desires. It is generally thought that emotions also have non-cognitive, affective components, including valence and arousal. To clarify the impact of cognition on these affective components we asked participants to rate sentences along cognitive and affective dimensions. For the former case, participants rated the believability of the material. For the latter case, they provided valence and arousal ratings. Across two experiments, we show that valence and arousal are differently influenced by beliefs, suggesting that these two largely independent affective components of emotion differ in their cognitive penetrability. While both components depended upon overall comprehension of sentence meaning, only valence was influenced by the consistency of the sentences with participants’ beliefs (i.e., whether it was believable or unbelievable). We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding cognition-emotion relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-35709492013-02-15 Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal Nicolle, Antoinette Goel, Vinod Cogn Emot Research Article Many cognitive accounts of emotional processing assume that emotions have representational content that can be influenced by beliefs and desires. It is generally thought that emotions also have non-cognitive, affective components, including valence and arousal. To clarify the impact of cognition on these affective components we asked participants to rate sentences along cognitive and affective dimensions. For the former case, participants rated the believability of the material. For the latter case, they provided valence and arousal ratings. Across two experiments, we show that valence and arousal are differently influenced by beliefs, suggesting that these two largely independent affective components of emotion differ in their cognitive penetrability. While both components depended upon overall comprehension of sentence meaning, only valence was influenced by the consistency of the sentences with participants’ beliefs (i.e., whether it was believable or unbelievable). We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding cognition-emotion relationships. Taylor & Francis 2012-07-11 2013-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3570949/ /pubmed/22783982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.704351 Text en © 2013 Taylor & Francis http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf This is an open access article distributed under the Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals (http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Nicolle, Antoinette Goel, Vinod Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title | Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title_full | Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title_fullStr | Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title_full_unstemmed | Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title_short | Differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
title_sort | differential impact of beliefs on valence and arousal |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22783982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.704351 |
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