Emotion Duration

Verduyn, Philippe

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82965-0_1

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“…How long one experiences the same emotion (i.e., emotion duration) is an important part of emotion dynamics (Frijda et al, 1991;Verduyn, 2021;Verduyn, et al, 2009a). Adults' emotion experiences typically last from several minutes to hours (Scherer & Wallbott, 1994;Thornton & Tamir, 2017;Verduyn, et al, 2009aVerduyn, et al, , 2009bVerduyn & Lavrijsen, 2015).…”

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The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood

Nencheva¹,

Nook²,

Thornton³

et al. 2023

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Emotions change from one moment to the next. They have a duration from seconds to hours, and then transition to other emotions. Here we describe the early ontology of these key aspects of emotion dynamics. In five cross-sectional studies that combine parent surveys and ecological momentary assessment, we characterize how emotion duration and transitions change over the first five years of life, and how they relate to children’s language development. Over this developmental period, the duration of children’s emotions increased, and emotion transitions became increasingly organized by valence, such that children were more likely to transition between similarly valenced emotions. Children with these more mature emotion profiles also had larger vocabularies and produced labels for the tested emotions. These findings advance our understanding of emotion and communication by highlighting their intertwined nature in development and by charting how dynamic features of emotional experiences change over the first years of life.

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The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood

Nencheva¹,

Nook²,

Thornton³

et al. 2023

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“…That is, shame and pride may be shorter lived in children than adults, potentially due to children's less mature concepts of their personal identity (Harter & Leahy, 2001) and lower self-awareness (Lyons & Zelazo, 2011). Future work examining relations between children's and adults' reported emotion experiences (Thorton & Tamir, 2017;Verduyn, 2021) and their beliefs about emotion duration will help clarify these developmental findings (see similar arguments in Lara et al, 2019Lara et al, , 2021.…”

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This too shall pass, but when? Children's and adults' beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences

Kramer,

Lara,

Gweon

et al. 2024

Child Development

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This research investigated children's and adults' understanding of the mind by assessing beliefs about the temporal features of mental states. English‐speaking North American participants, varying in socioeconomic status (Study 1: N = 50 adults; Study 2: N = 112, 8‐ to 10‐year‐olds and adults; and Study 3: N = 116, 5‐ to 7‐year‐olds and adults; tested 2017–2022), estimated the duration (seconds to a lifetime) of emotions, desires (wanting), preferences (liking), and control trials (e.g., napping and having eyes). Participants were 56% female and 44% male; 32% Asian, 1% Black, 13% Hispanic/Latino, 38% White (non‐Hispanic/Latino), and 16% multiracial or another race/ethnicity. Children and adults judged that preferences last longer than emotions and desires, with age differences in distinguishing specific emotions by duration (). By 5 to 7 years, ideas about the mind include consideration of time.

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“…To choose appropriate values of α and β, we need to decide on a timescale on which we want to model situations and emotions. While emotions typically unfold on a timescale of minutes (Gross & Feldman Barrett, 2011;Houben et al, 2015), their duration can be highly variable and can even unfold over hours (Verduyn, 2021;Verduyn & Lavrijsen, 2015). Here we assume that emotionally relevant situations that we encounter in daily life unfold on an hourly timescale: Most time intervals in daily life that we would call "situations", such as having lunch with a colleague, going for a run, enjoying a theater performance, or reading a paper on emotion regulation, typically last longer than a minute.…”

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Towards a Generative Model for Emotion Dynamics

Ryan¹,

Dablander²,

Haslbeck³

2023

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Most theories of emotion suggest that emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. Process theories of emotion further specify a feedback loop between our environment, attention, emotions, and action that clarifies the adaptive nature of emotions. In principle, such process theories describe how emotions develop in daily life, and consequently, emotion measures collected from individuals many times a day in studies using the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) should be highly useful in developing these theories. However, current emotion theories are predominantly verbal theories and therefore do not make clear predictions in such data. In this paper, we take a first step towards a generative model of emotion dynamics by formalizing the link between situations and emotions, which provides us with a basic generative model of emotions in daily life. We show that this incomplete model already reproduces nine stable phenomena in emotion time series related to (temporal) associations between emotions and their distributional form. We then discuss how we can draw on existing (process) theories of emotion to extend our basic model into a complete generative model of emotion dynamics. Finally, we discuss how generative models of emotion dynamics can facilitate theory development and advance measurement, study design, and statistical analysis.

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Emotion Duration

Cited by 9 publications

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The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood

The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood

This too shall pass, but when? Children's and adults' beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences

Towards a Generative Model for Emotion Dynamics

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