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Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress
The emotions that people experience in day-to-day social situations are often mixed emotions. Although autobiographical recall is useful as an emotion induction procedure, it often involves recalling memories associated with a specific discrete emotion (e.g., sadness). However, real-life emotions oc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33897528 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618676 |
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description | The emotions that people experience in day-to-day social situations are often mixed emotions. Although autobiographical recall is useful as an emotion induction procedure, it often involves recalling memories associated with a specific discrete emotion (e.g., sadness). However, real-life emotions occur freely and spontaneously, without such constraints. To understand real-life emotions, the present study examined characteristics of emotions that were elicited by recalling “stressful interpersonal events in daily life” without the targeted evocation of a specific discrete emotion. Assuming generation of mixed and complex emotions, emotional groups with relatively strong correlation of multiple emotions according to surprise, fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and happiness were expected. Seventy-two university students (35 males, mean age: 19.69 ± 1.91 years; 37 females, 20.03 ± 2.42) participated in the study. In the emotion induction procedure, participants freely recalled memories as per the instructions on a monitor, and then responded silently to a series of questions concerning any one recalled incident. Assessments of emotional states using emotion scales and another item indicated that validated emotional changes had occurred during the task. Inter-correlations between six emotions demonstrated an emotional group consisting of disgust and anger, which frequently occur as negative interpersonal feelings, and that of fear and sadness. This indicated generation of mixed and complex emotions as experienced in social life. Future studies concerning relationships between these emotions and other factors, including neurophysiological responses, may facilitate further understanding about relationships between mental and physiological processes occurring in daily life. |
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spelling | pubmed-80629192021-04-24 Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress Ozawa, Sachiyo Front Psychol Psychology The emotions that people experience in day-to-day social situations are often mixed emotions. Although autobiographical recall is useful as an emotion induction procedure, it often involves recalling memories associated with a specific discrete emotion (e.g., sadness). However, real-life emotions occur freely and spontaneously, without such constraints. To understand real-life emotions, the present study examined characteristics of emotions that were elicited by recalling “stressful interpersonal events in daily life” without the targeted evocation of a specific discrete emotion. Assuming generation of mixed and complex emotions, emotional groups with relatively strong correlation of multiple emotions according to surprise, fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and happiness were expected. Seventy-two university students (35 males, mean age: 19.69 ± 1.91 years; 37 females, 20.03 ± 2.42) participated in the study. In the emotion induction procedure, participants freely recalled memories as per the instructions on a monitor, and then responded silently to a series of questions concerning any one recalled incident. Assessments of emotional states using emotion scales and another item indicated that validated emotional changes had occurred during the task. Inter-correlations between six emotions demonstrated an emotional group consisting of disgust and anger, which frequently occur as negative interpersonal feelings, and that of fear and sadness. This indicated generation of mixed and complex emotions as experienced in social life. Future studies concerning relationships between these emotions and other factors, including neurophysiological responses, may facilitate further understanding about relationships between mental and physiological processes occurring in daily life. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8062919/ /pubmed/33897528 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618676 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ozawa. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Ozawa, Sachiyo Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title | Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title_full | Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title_fullStr | Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title_short | Emotions Induced by Recalling Memories About Interpersonal Stress |
title_sort | emotions induced by recalling memories about interpersonal stress |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33897528 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618676 |
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