Perennial Problems in the Field of Emotion

Arnold, Magda B.

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“…Piaget's [23] studies of developmental psychology also led to his conclusion that all affects have cognitive implications, in contrast to the traditional separation in academic psychology of affect and cognition. The Cannon-McDougall theory of affects as central subjective states was further developed by Magda Arnold [24,25] in the 1960s, in her proposal that affects are the basic motivational system consisting of an appraisal of the environment and the desire to either approach-rewarding perceptions or to withdraw from aversive or dangerous ones. She tentatively mapped out the brain structures and systems involved in affect activation, linking neuropsychological and neurophysiological developments.…”

Section: Freud's Affect Theory and Later Psychoanalytic Developmentmentioning

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Psychoanalytic affect theory in the light of contemporary neurobiological findings

Kernberg

2006

International Congress Series

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Section: Freud's Affect Theory and Later Psychoanalytic Developmentmentioning

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Psychoanalytic affect theory in the light of contemporary neurobiological findings

Kernberg

2006

International Congress Series

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“…These evaluative notions are behind the cognitive model offered by Arnold (1970). These evaluative notions are behind the cognitive model offered by Arnold (1970).…”

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Predicting Emotions from Social Relations

Kemper¹

1991

Social Psychology Quarterly

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“…55 praised as bad" (Arnold, 1970, p. 176). Appraisal is thus the process in which the personal significance of an event is evaluated, prompting the subject to have a tendency of attraction or aversion towards anything in the environment (Arnold, 1960(Arnold, , 1970. This emphasis on the personal significance can be highlighted by what calls the law of situated meaning: emotions are responses to the subjective meaning structures of given situations.…”

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Silvennoinen

Perälä

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Esitetään Jyväskylän yliopiston informaatioteknologian tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi yliopiston Agora-rakennuksen auditoriossa 2 kesäkuun 6. päivänä 2015 kello 12.Academic dissertation to be publicly discussed, by permission of the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Jyväskylä, in building Agora, auditorium 2, on June 6, 2015 at 12 o'clock noon. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ JYVÄSKYLÄ 2015User Researchers of human-technology interaction have started to emphasise the importance of technology users' experiences: experience is an important aspect of daily life, and thus it should be taken into account in human-technology interaction research and in design of new technologies. However, scientific study of conscious experience is difficult, and the field of user experience research is afflicted by incompatible definitions, assumptions, and guidelines for investigating users' experiences and designing for them. This problem is emphasised by the lack of foundational framework, which would allow for comparing the metascientific and methodological assumptions behind different accounts of user experience. Here, such an account is presented in the form of foundational analysis of human-technology interaction. The resulting methodological framework is used to review theories of user experience with a conclusion that while the topics investigated under the umbrella of user experience seem to be the correct ones, their operationalisation lacks proper psychological basis. As a result of the foundational analysis of user experience, one of the core concepts related to conscious experience, emotion, is introduced, and different psychological accounts for it are reviewed using the methodological framework. Appraisal theory of emotion is shown to provide methodologically the best option for studying emotional user experience. A review of empirical studies, included as the articles of this thesis, supports this conclusion. Emotional user experience is discussed in terms of (1) a competence-frustration model, (2) individual coping differences in human-technology interaction, (3) mental contents of emotional experience, and (4) the non-conscious cognitive processes associated with the appraisal process. These elaborations can be used to investigate what users experience emotionally when they interact with technology, and explain these experiences. Such investigations should provide valid knowledge structures for designers, who aim to create technologies with certain experience goals.Keywords: user experience, emotion, appraisal, mental content Author's address ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAs I started my studies on emotion in human-technology interaction over four years ago, I wasn't that familiar with the topic, nor with the field of humantechnology interaction in general. What I've learned during my doctoral studies, and what I hopefully can teach to others, has not been achieved by myself alone, but with the help of multiple people: colleagues in academia, industrial partners, family members, study partic...

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Perennial Problems in the Field of Emotion

Cited by 71 publications

References 2 publications

Psychoanalytic affect theory in the light of contemporary neurobiological findings

Psychoanalytic affect theory in the light of contemporary neurobiological findings

Predicting Emotions from Social Relations

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