A signal-detection approach to individual differences in negative feeling

Karmon-Presser, Anat; Meiran, Nachshon

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01344

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“…SDT, as applied to emotion reports, distinguishes between “emotional evidence” and a decision criterion determining how much evidence should be present for a report to be made. Our results support SDT in showing that it outperformed competitor models and in its parameters changing predictably by a manipulation and individual differences (see also Karmon-Presser & Meiran, 2019). Despite this support, SDT has several noteworthy shortcomings.…”

Section: Feeling Generation As Evidence Accumulationsupporting

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Cognitive appraisal contributes to feeling generation through emotional evidence accumulation rate: Evidence from instructed fictional reappraisal.

Singer-Landau¹,

Meiran²

2021

Emotion

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How do (reportable) emotional feelings come to be? Following William James and many others, Givon et al. ( 2020) described the generation of feelings as evidence accumulation toward a boundary. In this work, we began clarifying the nature of "evidence". In two preregistered experiments, participants were presented with normed emotion-evoking negative/positive pictures that were described as reflecting either authentic or fictitious happenings ("fictional reappraisal"). In negative pictures (but contrary to our predictions, not in positive pictures), fictional reappraisal slowed feeling reports and reduced the rate of unpleasant feeling reports. An evidence accumulation model, the Hierarchical Linear Ballistic Accumulator model, was fit to the results from negative stimuli. This analysis indicated that fictional reappraisal selectively slowed the rate of evidence accumulation favoring (the normatively "correct") unpleasant feeling reports and speeded evidence accumulation favoring (the normatively "wrong") pleasant feeling reports. Fictional reappraisal did not change the response criterion, specifying the required amount of evidence for report. These results suggest that cognitive appraisals contribute to (and are a part of) emotional evidence, as operationalized in evidence accumulation models, and provide additional support for the usefulness of these models for the study of feeling reports.

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Section: Feeling Generation As Evidence Accumulationsupporting

confidence: 79%

Cognitive appraisal contributes to feeling generation through emotional evidence accumulation rate: Evidence from instructed fictional reappraisal.

Singer-Landau¹,

Meiran²

2021

Emotion

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On the relationship between subjective decision criteria and paranoid ideations

Bliznashki

2024

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Framing Subjective Emotion Reports as Dynamic Affective Decisions

2023

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Self-reports remain affective science’s only direct measure of subjective affective experiences. Yet, little research has sought to understand the psychological process that transforms subjective experience into self-reports. Here, we propose that by framing these self-reports as dynamic affective decisions, affective scientists may leverage the computational tools of decision-making research, sequential sampling models specifically, to better disentangle affective experience from the noisy decision processes that constitute self-report. We further outline how such an approach could help affective scientists better probe the specific mechanisms that underlie important moderators of affective experience (e.g., contextual differences, individual differences, and emotion regulation) and discuss how adopting this decision-making framework could generate insight into affective processes more broadly and facilitate reciprocal collaborations between affective and decision scientists towards a more comprehensive and integrative psychological science.

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A signal-detection approach to individual differences in negative feeling

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Cognitive appraisal contributes to feeling generation through emotional evidence accumulation rate: Evidence from instructed fictional reappraisal.

Cognitive appraisal contributes to feeling generation through emotional evidence accumulation rate: Evidence from instructed fictional reappraisal.

On the relationship between subjective decision criteria and paranoid ideations

Framing Subjective Emotion Reports as Dynamic Affective Decisions

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