Anger Elicitation Using Affective Pictures:

Thibodeau, Ryan; Jorgensen, Randall Steven; Jonovich, Sarah J.

doi:10.1027/1614-0001.29.2.80

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“…For example, only one film reached the criterion to be included in the category "anger." This result is consistent with those of previous studies showing that emotional pictures are not an effective means to elicit anger in the laboratory (e.g., Mikels et al, 2005;Thibodeau, Jorgensen, & Jonovich, 2008) and indicates that film clips are also not effective as anger elicitors (see also Gross & Levenson, 1995).…”

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Evaluative and Psychophysiological Responses to Short Film Clips of Different Emotional Content

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Fernández-Cahill

Román

et al. 2018

Journal of Psychophysiology

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Abstract. The study presents self-report and psychophysiological data obtained in response to short film clips representing scenes related to different emotions. This was done in order to obtain evidence on the structure of positive and negative affective states following a combined dimensional/categorical approach to emotion and based on responses to stimuli that are more realistic than the static pictures usually employed in the study of emotion. Affective ratings and self-report measures showed a differential structure of the response to positive and negative films (Experiment 1). While all negative films were rated as low in valence and high in arousal, positive films were differentiated into arousing (happy and pleasure contents) and de-arousing (relax contents) categories. A more complex pattern emerged in Experiment 2, using two psychophysiological measures that are differentially sensitive to the main affective dimensions of valence and arousal, skin conductance response (SCR) and facial electromyography (fEMG). First, high arousal positive and negative films produced larger skin conductance responses. Second, fEMG measures showed differentiated response patterns within the positive and negative film categories. Within the positive category, happy and relaxing films had opposed effects, with happy films increasing and relax films decreasing activity over the zygomaticus muscle region. In the case of negative films, only those eliciting disgust produced a differentiated pattern of fEMG activity characterized by large corrugator responses and a modest increase of zygomatic responses. These results are discussed in relation to the adequacy of the dimensional and categorical approaches to emotion, the usefulness of combining subjective and psychophysiological measures, and the advantages of using realistic, dynamic stimuli for the study of emotion.

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confidence: 92%

Evaluative and Psychophysiological Responses to Short Film Clips of Different Emotional Content

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Fernández-Cahill

Román

et al. 2018

Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…As to the visual recognition of emotional information, developmental researchers have used emotional facial expressions as ecologically valid, salient stimuli even for very young children (McClure, 2000), although the ability of affective pictures to elicit discrete emotions has been questioned (Thibodeau, Jorgensen, & Jonovich, 2008). In a visual search task with memory updating demands (testing immediate recognition), Visu-Petra, Tincaş, Cheie, and Benga (2010) found that, compared to LA children, HA children were slower and less accurate in recognizing previously seen identities displaying happy expressions, but more accurate in responses to identities expressing anger.…”

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Relating Individual Differences in Trait-Anxiety to Memory Functioning in Young Children

Cheie

Visu‐Petra

2012

Journal of Individual Differences

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There is extensive evidence indicating cognitive biases at several stages of information processing in high-anxious children. Little research, however, has investigated a potential memory bias toward negative information in high-anxious young children. We studied immediate and delayed verbal recall as well as delayed visual recognition in a sample of high-trait-anxious (HA) and low-trait-anxious (LA) preschoolers (N = 76, mean age = 65 months), using stimuli containing task-irrelevant emotional valence (positive, negative, neutral). The findings revealed that, compared to their LA counterparts, HA preschoolers displayed (1) a tendency to be less accurate in the immediate verbal recall task, (2) poorer recall of negative words in the immediate condition and poorer recall of neutral words in the delayed condition, (3) impaired delayed recognition of identities with happy facial expressions and a tendency to better recognize identities expressing anger. Results are discussed considering the dynamic interplay between personality, emotion and cognitive factors during early development.

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“…Our findings are consistent with findings in the empathy literature that compassion is similarly strong for animals as for human babies in need of medical care (Angantyr et al, 2011) and that experimentally induced compassion for victims increases moral outrage against transgressors (Pfattheicher et al, 2019). Yet anger emerged as the primary response to images of animal abuse in a study of emotion-eliciting stimuli by Thibodeau et al (2008). Therefore, more research is needed to investigate the comparative importance of compassion and anger reactions to animal abuse cases.…”

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Harming cats and dogs: People are as morally outraged, but not as punitive, in animal versus human abuse cases.

Burke¹,

Peter-Hagene²,

Jones³

et al. 2023

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Little is known about the psychological factors that influence and explain public perceptions of animal abuse cases. We experimentally examined jury-eligible participants' reactions to scenarios involving animal (cat, dog) and, for comparison, human (baby, woman) victims. Our theoretical goal was understanding the potentially different role of moral outrage in punishment decisions for animal versus human victims. Results revealed that participants were morally outraged at the abuse of both humans and animals-equally for woman, cat, and dog victims, and especially so for a baby-yet the psychological antecedents differed. In human abuse cases, moral outrage was driven by participants' perception of the immorality of the abuse; in animal cases, moral outrage was driven by perceptions of victims' suffering. As predicted, the more morally outraged, the more participants favored a prison sentence for the perpetrator, but the relation differed somewhat by victim type. Of note, although participants were morally outraged by all instances of abuse, they were less likely to favor prison sentences for perpetrators of animal rather than human abuse. Legal and theoretical implications are discussed.

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Anger Elicitation Using Affective Pictures:

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Evaluative and Psychophysiological Responses to Short Film Clips of Different Emotional Content

Evaluative and Psychophysiological Responses to Short Film Clips of Different Emotional Content

Relating Individual Differences in Trait-Anxiety to Memory Functioning in Young Children

Harming cats and dogs: People are as morally outraged, but not as punitive, in animal versus human abuse cases.

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