Does Minimal Inconsistency Evoke Negative Affect? Report From Three Studies Using an Implicit Measure of Emotion

Bran, Alexandre; Vaidis, David

doi:10.1007/s12646-020-00594-4

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“…This suggests that the duration people spend thinking about content related to their beliefs is an important determinant of how they feel. As a way of addressing this issue, we examined affective reactions over a range of short time frames, testing the immediate emotional processes (Bran & Vaidis, 2021) resulting from matching expectations with reality. Our results show that confirmation of pessimistic expectations did not result in elevated feelings in the first moments (first few hundred milliseconds) of emotional response.…”

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Is it better to be happy or right? Examining the relative role of the pragmatic and epistemic imperatives in momentary affective evaluations.

Raz,

Reggev,

Gilead

2024

Emotion

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According to research highlighting the importance of predictions, the confirmation of expectations may be a positively-laden experience. A strong test of this principle is the case of the "doomsayer's delight": the possibility that belief confirmation can be rewarding even when negative expectations are realized. In order to investigate this idea, we conducted two high-powered experiments examining people's immediate affective reactions following exposure to expected or unexpected positive and negative stimuli. The results show that people feel significantly worse when their pessimistic expectations are confirmed than when their optimistic expectations are violated. This finding was not moderated by several theoretically relevant individual difference measures or temporal dynamics. Findings from this study contribute to our understanding of the interplay between epistemic and pragmatic motivations in guiding emotional responses.

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