Sharing the moment: the duration of embraces in humans

Nagy, Emese

doi:10.1007/s10164-010-0260-y

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“…One cannot expect participants to indicate a change in emotion or judgment in the one-second clock interval they experience it, or with a constant temporal offset. Before analyzing the data TIME SERIES OF FEELING MOVED --13 we decided upon a window of three seconds because in most cases that should be sufficient for participants to indicate changes, and because chunks of about three seconds seem to be the building blocks of human perceptual and motor existence (Nagy, 2011). We thus aggregated the time courses by averaging judgments within units of three consecutive seconds, which smooths the curves somewhat ( Figure S1-D).…”

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Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses

Schubert

Zickfeld

Seibt

et al. 2016

Cognition and Emotion

166

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Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre of the chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one's feeling as being moved or touched is a component of a social-relational emotion that we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). We hypothesise that it is caused by appraising an intensification of communal sharing relations. Here, we test this by investigating people's moment-to-moment reports of feeling moved and touched while watching six short videos. We compare these to six other sets of participants' moment-to-moment responses watching the same videos: respectively, judgements of closeness (indexing communal sharing), reports of weeping, goosebumps, warmth in the centre of the chest, happiness, and sadness. Our eighth time series is expert ratings of communal sharing. Time series analyses show strong and consistent cross-correlations of feeling moved and touched and closeness with each other and with each of the three physiological variables and expert-rated communal sharing - but distinctiveness from happiness and sadness. These results support our model.

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Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses

Schubert

Zickfeld

Seibt

et al. 2016

Cognition and Emotion

166

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“…An average (mean, median, or mode) behaviour duration of 2 -3 s has been found in other studies as well. Nagy (2011) analysed the duration of spontaneous embraces between two people in footage from the Beijing Olympics and found a mean of 3.17 s. This varied somewhat depending on the relationship between the embracers: competitor/competitor embraces were shorter (mean = 1.81 s) than competitor/coach embraces (mean = 3.77 s).…”

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The three-second “subjective present”: A critical review and a new proposal.

White

2017

Psychological Bulletin

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It has been argued that there is a "subjective present" or "experienced moment" of about 3 seconds in duration, involving automatic binding of events into perceptual units on that time scale. Research on topics that have been taken as relevant to this proposal is reviewed. The topics include accuracy in reproduction of stimulus durations, synchronization of behavior with a regular beat, mental rhythmization of a regular beat, time units in behavior, segmentation of observed behavior into meaningful units, time scale of reversals of perception with bistable ambiguous figures, time scale of inhibition of return in visual search, and EEG responses to deviant stimuli in series of repeating stimuli. Most of the research findings were not consistent with the 3 s window hypothesis. The small amount of supportive evidence is better interpreted as effects of specific processing mechanisms, not as showing general temporal integration. The evidence shows that temporal integration occurs on multiple time scales and no particular duration is special, and that windows of temporal integration are defined in terms of information density, not in terms of duration. The subjective present is constructed through local temporal integration on multiple time scales, further integrated into a coherent global representation of what is going on. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Thus, the emotional condition might have lacked a strong affective component as embraces are not a partner-specific interaction eliciting strong emotional responses. Furthermore, embraces are usually shorter than the one-minute interval employed in our experiment (Nagy, 2011), which was necessary for reliable data acquisition. The unusually long duration could have negatively influenced our results in this experiment.…”

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Investigating real-life emotions in romantic couples: a mobile EEG study

Packheiser

Berretz

Rook

et al. 2020

Preprint

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The neural basis of emotional processing has been largely investigated in constrained spatial environments such as stationary EEGs or fMRI scanners using highly artificial stimuli like standardized pictures depicting emotional scenes. Typically, such standardized experiments have low ecological validity and it remains unclear whether their results reflect neuronal processing in real-life affective situations at all. Critically, emotional situations do not only encompass the perception of emotions, but also behavioral components associated with them. In this study, we aimed to investigate real-life emotions by recording couples in their homes using mobile EEG technology during embracing, kissing and emotional speech. We focused on asymmetries in affective processing as emotions have been demonstrated to be strongly lateralized in the brain. We found higher alpha and beta power asymmetry during kissing and embracing on frontal electrodes during emotional kisses and speech compared to a neutral control condition indicative of stronger left-hemispheric activation. In contrast, we found lower alpha power asymmetry at parieto-occipital electrode sites in the emotional compared to the neutral condition indicative of stronger right-hemispheric activation. Our findings are in line with models of emotional lateralization that postulate a valence-specific processing over frontal cortices and right-hemispheric dominance in emotional processing in parieto-occipital regions. Overall, we could thus support theories of emotional asymmetries which suggest that affective processing is not uniformly lateralized across the brain using a highly ecologically valid paradigm.

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Sharing the moment: the duration of embraces in humans

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses

Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses

The three-second “subjective present”: A critical review and a new proposal.

Investigating real-life emotions in romantic couples: a mobile EEG study

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