From meaning to experience: The dimensional structure of emotional experiences1

Fontaine, Johnny; Veirman, Elke; Groenvynck, Hans; Scherer, Klaus R.

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“…For dimensional ratings, 20 participants (10 women) gave one score per emotional expression on visual analog scales that represent the following dimensions: unpredictability, valence, power, arousal, and emotional intensity. 5 The presence of unpredictability in the rating study follows recent research using the GRID framework (Fontaine et al, 2007;Fontaine, Veirman, & Groenvynck, 2013), in which it appeared as an important dimension in the cognitive representation of emotion. 6 The evaluation of unpredictability refers to the event that produced the emotion portrayed by the actor.…”

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“…The most common underlying dimensions for emotional experience are valence and arousal (present in virtually all models of emotion; see Fontaine, Scherer, & Soriano, 2013;Rubin & Talarico, 2009), followed by power and unpredictability (Fontaine, Scherer, Roesch, & Ellsworth, 2007) or novelty Fontaine, Veirman, & Groenvynck, 2013). The number of emotion categories is more variable, depending on the theoretical position adopted.…”

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Emotion categories and dimensions in the facial communication of affect: An integrated approach.

Méhu¹,

Scherer²

2015

Emotion

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We investigated the role of facial behavior in emotional communication, using both categorical and dimensional approaches. We used a corpus of enacted emotional expressions (GEMEP) in which professional actors are instructed, with the help of scenarios, to communicate a variety of emotional experiences. The results of Study 1 replicated earlier findings showing that only a minority of facial action units are associated with specific emotional categories. Likewise, facial behavior did not show a specific association with particular emotional dimensions. Study 2 showed that facial behavior plays a significant role both in the detection of emotions and in the judgment of their dimensional aspects, such as valence, arousal, dominance, and unpredictability. In addition, a mediation model revealed that the association between facial behavior and recognition of the signaler's emotional intentions is mediated by perceived emotional dimensions. We conclude that, from a production perspective, facial action units convey neither specific emotions nor specific emotional dimensions, but are associated with several emotions and several dimensions. From the perceiver's perspective, facial behavior facilitated both dimensional and categorical judgments, and the former mediated the effect of facial behavior on recognition accuracy. The classification of emotional expressions into discrete categories may, therefore, rely on the perception of more general dimensions such as valence and arousal and, presumably, the underlying appraisals that are inferred from facial movements.

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Emotion categories and dimensions in the facial communication of affect: An integrated approach.

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2015

Emotion

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“…No models of affective experience include the three or four dimensions of valence, arousal, power, and novelty in a single model. A study by Fontaine, Veirman, Groenvynck, and Scherer (2013) found a four-dimensional representation of emotional experiences in terms of valence, power, arousal, and novelty by asking participants to describe those experiences on the basis of the GRID features. Still, it has yet to be demonstrated that this structure also emerges when people report on their emotional experiences on the basis of emotion terms.…”

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Mapping Emotion Terms into Affective Space

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Fontaine

Soriano

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Swiss Journal of Psychology

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Abstract. Recent empirical work on the semantics of emotion terms across many different cultures and languages, using a theoretical componential approach, suggested that four dimensions are needed to parsimoniously describe the semantic space of the emotion domain as reflected in emotion terms ( Fontaine, Scherer, Roesch, & Ellsworth, 2007 ; Fontaine, Scherer, & Soriano, 2013 ). In addition to valence, power, and arousal, a novelty dimension was discovered that mostly differentiated surprise from other emotions. Here, we further explore the existence and nature of the fourth dimension in semantic emotion space using a much larger and much more representative set of emotion terms. A group of 156 participants each rated 10 out of a set of 80 French emotion terms with respect to semantic meaning. The meaning of an emotion term was evaluated with respect to 68 emotion features representing the appraisal, action tendency, bodily reaction, expression, and feeling components of the emotion process. A principal component analysis confirmed the four-dimensional valence, power, arousal, and novelty structure. Moreover, this larger and much more representative set of emotion terms revealed that the novelty dimension not only differentiates surprise terms from other emotion terms, but also identifies substantial variation within the fear and joy emotion families.

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“…In particular, we selected those scenarios that functioned best in a previous large-scale study with the original version (i.e., scenarios with high factor loadings and low error covariances for the final two-factor model on the self and other scores, see Table 2 in Veirman et al, 2011), and moreover were content representative for the emotion domain. In particular, the selected scenarios represented the main dimensions of emotional experience, namely valence (i.e., happiness), power (i.e., anger, sadness), arousal (i.e., anxiety), and novelty/care (i.e., surprise, concern; Fontaine, Veirman, & Groenvynck, 2013).…”

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A componential emotion approach for the assessment of emotional awareness in youth.

Veirman

Fontaine

Ryckeghem

2016

Psychological Assessment

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The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale for Children (LEAS-C) is a performance-based instrument that assesses emotional awareness in the structure of written responses to a set of real-life scenarios. While it is theoretically expected that emotional awareness develops with age, virtually no age differences have been established with the LEAS-C. The present study investigated whether an adaptation of the instructions and scoring procedure on the basis of the componential emotion approach could improve the validity of the LEAS-C and reveal the theoretically expected age differences. An adapted LEAS-C was administered to a sample of 574 children and adolescents and scored with the original and a new componential scoring procedure. An acceptable reliability for the original and a good reliability and a high interrater reliability for the componential scoring procedure were observed. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses showed measurement invariance of factor loadings and intercepts across children (8 to 12 years) and adolescents (13 to 16 years) for all tested models, for both scoring procedures. A one-factor model fitted well for the total scores and self and other scores for both scoring procedures. The pattern of relationships with alexithymia, emotional intelligence, intelligence, personality, and social and emotional impairment as well as gender differences were comparable with prior research. Furthermore, the expected relationship with age was found, with stronger correlations for the componential than the original scoring procedure. In conclusion, analyses of the reliability, internal structure, and nomological network supported the adaptations of the LEAS-C on the basis of the componential emotion approach. (PsycINFO Database Record

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From meaning to experience: The dimensional structure of emotional experiences1

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Emotion categories and dimensions in the facial communication of affect: An integrated approach.

Emotion categories and dimensions in the facial communication of affect: An integrated approach.

Mapping Emotion Terms into Affective Space

A componential emotion approach for the assessment of emotional awareness in youth.

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