Experimental Methods for Inducing Basic Emotions: A Qualitative Review

Siedlecka, Ewa; Denson, Thomas F.

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“…The valence of the affective photos was consistent with the mood condition to which the participant was assigned. We chose to use IAPS photos as the basis of our mood induction, as they have been shown to effectively induce affective reactions (Bradley, Cuthbert & Lang, 1996; Davis, Rahman, Smith et al, 1995; Smith, Bradley & Lang, 2005; for a review of emotion induction methods, including IAPS, see Siedlecka & Denson, 2019). In order to deepen the impact of exposure to the IAPS photos, we first asked participants to describe each of six photos (three neutral and three “happy” or “sad”) using three adjectives.…”

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The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition

Hall

Evans

Higginbotham

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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2020). The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 61, 333-347.We investigated whether the previously established effect of mood on episodic memory generalizes to semantic memory and whether mood affects metacognitive judgments associated with the retrieval of semantic information. Sixty-eight participants were induced into a happy or sad mood by viewing and describing IAPS images. Following mood induction, participants saw a total of 200 general knowledge trivia items (50 open-ended and 50 multiplechoice after each of two mood inductions) and were asked to provide a metacognitive judgment about their knowledge for each item before providing a response. A sample trivia item is: Author --To kill a mockingbird. Results indicate that mood affects the retrieval of semantic information, but only when the participant believes they possess the requested semantic information; furthermore, this effect depends upon the presence of retrieval cues. In addition, we found that mood does not affect the likelihood of different metacognitive judgments associated with the retrieval of semantic information, but that, in some cases, having retrieval cues increases accuracy of these metacognitive judgments. Our results suggest that semantic retrieval processes are minimally susceptible to the influence of affective state but does not preclude the possibility that affective state may influence encoding of semantic information.The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition 335 Scand J Psychol 61 (2020) c t (64) = 3.07, p = 0.003. d t (66) = 2.93, p = 0.005.The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition 343 Scand J Psychol 61 (2020) APPENDIX 1 IAPS PhotosThe effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition 345 Scand J Psychol 61 (2020)

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The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition

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Evans

Higginbotham

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…Autobiographical recall tasks have been used extensively in research on mood induction (e.g., Strack, Schwarz, & Gschneidinger, 1985). Although many studies provide supportive evidence for the efficacy of autobiographical recall in inducing basic emotions and mood (e.g., Jallais & Gilet, 2010;Siedlecka & Denson, 2019), other studies have failed to find these effects (Göritz & Moser, 2006). Recalling a particular episode in a lab or behind a computer is probably too subtle to produce an experience that is comparable to that in the original situation and hence may fail to exert causal impact on any outcome of interest (see for instance Schjoedt, 2009 for a similar argument in the context of religious and mystical experiences).…”

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Compensatory Control and Belief in God: A Registered Replication Report Across Two Countries

Hoogeveen¹,

Wagenmakers²,

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Compensatory Control Theory (CCT) suggests that religious belief systems provide an external source of control that can substitute a perceived lack of personal control. In a seminal paper, Kay et al. (2008) experimentally demonstrated that a threat to personal control increases endorsement of the existence of a controlling God. In the current registered report, we conducted a high-powered (N = 829) direct replication of this effect, using samples from the Netherlands and the United States. Our results show moderate to strong evidence for the absence of an experimental effect across both countries: belief in a controlling God did not increase after a threat compared to an affirmation of personal control. In a complementary preregistered analysis, an inverse relation between general feelings of personal control and belief in a controlling God was found in the US, but not in the Netherlands. We discuss potential reasons for the replication failure of the experimental effect and cultural mechanisms explaining the cross-country difference in the correlational effect. Together, our findings suggest that experimental manipulations of control may be ineffective in shifting belief in God, but that individual differences in the experience of control may be related to religious beliefs in a way that is consistent with CCT.

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“…Using descriptive text in the previous studies could have induced unnecessary variability. By using images, we attempted to reduce this as images are a validated method of inducing changes in affect (Siedlecka & Denson, 2018). We selected already rated images from the OASIS system (Kurdi et al, 2017).…”

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The combination of multiple affective experiences and their impact on valuation judgments

Efendic

Drače

Ric

2019

Cognition and Emotion

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People's affective experiences can be influenced by multiple informational inputs. It remains unclear however how this occurs? In this paper, we investigate the construction of affective experiences dependent on the varying number of previously presented, affectively-charged, informational inputs. In addition, because affect is often used as a cue in judgment and decision-making, we probe whether the resulting affective experience is mapped onto people's valuation judgments (how much people are willing-to-pay for target rewards and experiences). In three studies, we show that people's overall affective experience is constructed by averaging the affect of the previously presented, affectively-charged inputs. Subsequently, we find that people rely on the resulting affective experience as a cue for their judgments, as willingnessto-pay valuations were predicted by the combined affective experience. We measured integral, expected, as well as momentary affectusing both self-report and physiological measures. We discuss the potential for studying further how multiple inputs change affect as well as the implications for judgment and decision making.

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Experimental Methods for Inducing Basic Emotions: A Qualitative Review

Cited by 218 publications

References 111 publications

The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition

The effects of mood and retrieval cues on semantic memory and metacognition

Compensatory Control and Belief in God: A Registered Replication Report Across Two Countries

The combination of multiple affective experiences and their impact on valuation judgments

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