Gaze direction and brightness can affect self-reported emotion

Zhang, Xiaobin; Li, Qiong; Zuo, Bin

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.04.004

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“…They reported that stronger selective attention was allocated when neutral stimuli appeared in the lower half of the screen among participants with higher neuroticism. Contrary to Meier and Robinson (2006), who reported that mood affects attention, Zhang, Li, and Zuo (2014) reported that their participants felt happy when they gazed at the top of the screen and depressed when they gazed at the bottom.…”

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Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

Nishiguchi¹,

Imaizumi²,

Tanno³

2019

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Space-valence metaphor (e.g., bad is down) is embedded within cognitive and emotional processing (e.g., negative stimuli at a lower space capture visual attention more than those at upper space). Previous studies have revealed that motor action to vertical direction affects the emotional valence rating of stimuli with a valence corresponding to the metaphor, such as downward manual action that increases the negative rating of the stimuli. Previous studies also showed that motor action affects the valence rating only when introduced after the stimuli presentation. However, motor action before the stimuli presentation may affect visual selective attention. In the present study, we replicated the previous result; vertical or horizontal manual action introduced before the stimuli presentation does not affect the valence rating (Experiment 1). Moreover, we employed a modified version of the dot-probe task as a measure of visual selective attention to emotional stimuli (Experiment 2), where participants’ vertical or horizontal manual action triggered a pair of emotional words. Results revealed that an upward, not downward manual action promoted the selective attention to negative words, which was incongruent with the space-valence metaphorical correspondence. These results suggest that even though manual action does not affect the evaluative process of emotional stimuli prospectively, upward manual action introduced before stimuli presentation can promote visual attention to the subsequent negative stimuli in a way that is incongruent with the space-valence metaphor. Mechanisms underlying the metaphor incongruent effect and its directional anisotropy (i.e., no effect of downward action) have been discussed in the present study.

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Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

Nishiguchi¹,

Imaizumi²,

Tanno³

2019

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“…Moreover, Meier and Robinson (2006) reported that stronger selective attention was allocated when neutral stimuli appeared in the lower half of the screen among participants with higher neuroticism, suggesting a “bad is down” metaphor on selective attention to visual stimuli, while there was no significant effect for “good is up”. Additionally, Zhang et al. (2014) reported that their participants felt happy when they gazed at the top of the screen and depressed when they gazed at the bottom, which shows that attention affects emotion in metaphor-congruent manner.…”

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Upward action promotes selective attention to negative words

Nishiguchi

Imaizumi

Tanno

2021

Heliyon

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Space-valence metaphors (e.g., bad is down) are embedded within cognitive and emotional processing (e.g., negative stimuli at a lower space capture visual attention more than those at an upper space). Previous studies have revealed that motor action to vertical direction affects the emotional valence rating of stimuli in a metaphor-congruent manner only when the action was introduced after the stimuli presentation. In the present study, we hypothesized that motor action before the stimuli presentation does not affect valence rating while it may affect visual selective attention. In Experiment 1 (participants: 28 university students; mean age = 19.50 years), we partially replicated the previous result with repeated ANOVA and t -tests; manual action introduced before the stimuli presentation does not affect the valence rating. Then, in Experiment 2 (participants: 28 university students; mean age = 19.57 years), we employed a modified version of the dot-probe task as a measure of visual selective attention to emotional stimuli, where participants’ vertical or horizontal manual action was introduced before the presentation of a pair of emotional words. The results of the t -tests revealed that an upward manual action promoting selective attention to negative words, which was incongruent with the space-valence metaphorical correspondence. These results suggest that even though manual action does not affect the evaluative process of emotional stimuli prospectively, upward manual action introduced before stimuli presentation can promote visual attention to the subsequent negative stimuli in a way that is incongruent with the space-valence metaphor.

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“…Given the above findings, it would seem reasonable to hypothesize that music influence the way individuals draw while listening. For example, if sadness makes us see the world less bright 29,30 one would expect that when someone draws while listening to sad music, the drawing will be less bright. The present study aims at testing this hypothesis assessing whether the emotional features of music influence the way individuals adjust graphical features of drawings (e.g., shape, dimension, dispersion).…”

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Sadness influences brightness, amazement favours curvilinearity, tenderness sets the shades of green: how musical emotions shape image making

Cenerini,

Vollero,

Stefano

et al. 2023

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In the growing literature on audiovisual correspondences, the question of how music influences image making has receivedlittle attention. To fill this gap, in this study we investigated the effect of music-induced emotions on several key parameters thatdefine drawing. Hypothesising that drawing while listening to emotionally evocative music would result in emotionally coherentartwork, we designed a two-phase experiment to test this hypothesis. In the first phase, participants listened to ten originalsongs and were asked to create an image by changing various parameters (e.g., hue, shape, dimension). They were alsoasked to describe the emotional response elicited by the auditory stimuli by giving a score to a set of 9 musical emotions(amazement, solemnity, tenderness, nostalgia, calmness, power, joyful activation, tension, and sadness). In the second phase,participants were shown images in which one of the image parameter was set at a extreme value and the others were moderate,and asked to describe the emotions elicited by the images. This approach allowed us to gain data on the association betweenmusic and images, music and emotions, and images and emotions, and therefor assess whether paired audiovisual contentsare associated with the same emotional meaning. Findings reveal that auditory sadness correlates with visual brightnessand with the spatial dispersion of visual objects. Sadness also influences the saturation of light. Amazement shared manysimilarities with sadness in terms of influenced parameters, namely brightness and dispersion, and was correlated with thecolour green, typically evoking solemnity and tenderness. This study sheds novel light on the role of emotions in the mediationof auditory-visual associations.

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Gaze direction and brightness can affect self-reported emotion

Cited by 6 publications

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Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

Upward Action Promotes Selective Attention to Negative Words

Upward action promotes selective attention to negative words

Sadness influences brightness, amazement favours curvilinearity, tenderness sets the shades of green: how musical emotions shape image making

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