An effect of mood on the perception of geographical slant

Riener, Cedar; Stefanucci, Jeanine K.; Proffítt, Dennis R.; Clore, Gerald L.

doi:10.1080/02699931003738026

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“…This complements other findings that individuals with high positive emotions perceive difficult situations to be less challenging as compared to persons who are anxious or depressed [25,26]. Positive affect may also drive other mental health factors (e.g.…”

Section: Predictors Of Successful Agingsupporting

confidence: 38%

Successful aging in community seniors and stroke survivors: current and future strategies

Kamat

Depp

Jeste

2017

Neurological Research

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sam and rose stein institute for research on aging, university of california, san Diego, ca, usa ABSTRACTThere is growing evidence to suggest that aging is accompanied by enhancement in psychosocial well-being, despite age-related declines in physical and cognitive functioning. A small but growing body of research has reported on positive trajectories of well-being, and its determinants, among community-dwelling seniors as well as in people with specific diseases such as stroke. Current strategies for promoting successful aging include physical, cognitive and social activities, healthy lifestyle, social support, and positive traits such as resilience and optimism. These strategies have typically been employed in samples without serious illnesses, but an emerging body of evidence suggests that they are as relevant in cohorts with neurologic and other diseases. Future strategies will include those that work at the community level and not just at individual level, and will focus on use of technology as well as group interventions to enhance resilience and building age-friendly communities.

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Section: Predictors Of Successful Agingsupporting

confidence: 38%

Successful aging in community seniors and stroke survivors: current and future strategies

Kamat

Depp

Jeste

2017

Neurological Research

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“…Furthermore, there is no published evidence to suggest that depression of any severity affects distance perception. In fact, one study shows that depressed individuals do not perceive hills to be steeper than non-depressed individuals (Riener, 2007). …”

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The long road of pain: chronic pain increases perceived distance

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Spatial perception is sensitive to the energetic costs required to perform intended actions. For example, hills look steeper to people who are fatigued or burdened by a heavy load. Similarly, perceived distance is also influenced by the energy required to walk or throw to a target. Such experiments demonstrate that perception is a function, not just of optical information, but also of the perceiver’s potential to act and the energetic costs associated with the intended action. In the current paper, we expand on the notion of “cost” by examining perceived distance in patients diagnosed with chronic pain, a multifactorial disease, which is experienced while walking. We found that chronic pain patients perceive target distances to be farther away than a control group. These results indicate the physical, and perhaps emotional, costs of chronic pain affect spatial perceptions.

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“…Previous studies showed that moods affect geographical slant perceptions (Riener, Stefanucci, Proffitt, & Clore, 2011) and pain tolerance (Weisenberg & Tal Raz, 1998). Thus, we included positive and negative moods to Level 1.…”

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Felt Understanding and Misunderstanding Affect the Perception of Pain, Slant, and Distance

Oishi

Schiller

Gross

2012

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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We conducted two studies to examine whether the psychological states of felt understanding and misunderstanding would affect people's basic perceptions such as pain, geographical slant, and distance. As predicted, an experimentally induced sense of felt understanding relative to misunderstanding increased pain tolerance marginally and reduced the perceived distance to the target locations significantly. In Study 2, we not only replicated Study 1's findings on pain tolerance and distance perception but also found that participants in the understanding condition perceived the same hill to be significantly less steep than those in the misunderstanding condition. Our studies demonstrated that the experimentally induced feeling of misunderstanding tends to have the aversive effect on the perception of pain, geographical slant, and distance, whereas the experimentally induced feeling of understanding tends to alleviate pain, reduce the geographical slant, and the perceived distance to a target location.

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An effect of mood on the perception of geographical slant

Cited by 103 publications

References 26 publications

Successful aging in community seniors and stroke survivors: current and future strategies

Successful aging in community seniors and stroke survivors: current and future strategies

The long road of pain: chronic pain increases perceived distance

Felt Understanding and Misunderstanding Affect the Perception of Pain, Slant, and Distance

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