Running in fear: an investigation into the dimensional account of emotion in discriminating emotional expressions

Lo, L. Y.; Li, W. O.; Lee, L. P.; Yeung, Pui sze

doi:10.1007/s10339-018-0868-3

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“…We surmise that the biased distribution of the public resources in brain results in the unfair competition between emotion and thinking. High aroused emotion keeps a lid on thinking activities and leads to more mistakes in decision making (Lo et al , 2018).…”

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The research of human individual’s conformity behavior in emergency situations

Chen

2018

LHT

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Purpose The purpose of this paper (including three studies) is to investigate the idea that individuals in an emergency situation experience significantly a higher level of emotional activation, lower performance of task, and change in decision making, escaping behavior and conformity as compared to being in a non-emergency situation. It is also suggested that the level of emotional activation mediates the association between situation and the performance of task. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 was an experimental study with 43 university students and revealed that different situations induced different levels of emotional activation and they are positively and significantly related. Study 2 was a further exploration of study 1, in which 49 participants were asked to watch a recomposed video telling a reasonable story about escaping from the emergency and complete several tasks associated with two kinds of situations (non-emergency vs emergency). In study 3, 168 participants, randomly assigned to three groups, were asked to work on judgment tasks with different numbers of options. Findings Results revealed that individuals in an emergency situation experience significantly lower performance of task and higher conformity tendency than in a non-emergency situation. Also, the causal effect of the situation on the performance of task is mediated by the level of emotional activation. Moreover, results found that the performance of task is also a mediator between the level of emotional activation and conformity. Result showed that the number of choices is negatively related to conformity, and performance is a mediator between the number of choices and conformity. Originality/value This paper suggested that the level of emotional activation mediates the association between situation and the performance of task.

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The research of human individual’s conformity behavior in emergency situations

Chen

2018

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“…Fear is one of the basic emotions that can be quickly detected which helps people to easily focus on danger in the environment (Darwin, 2009;Lo et al, 2018). When feeling fear, participants in one study were found to be more focused on the target stimulation while ignoring distractions from non-target stimuli (Finucane, 2011).…”

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An Examination of Memory Performance in a Fearful Virtual Reality Gaming Context

2023

Simulation & Gaming

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Background The emotion of fear bears a survival significance enabling animals to be highly vigilant in contexts of uncertainty. Expectedly, not all information available in the environment can be processed. Given that a major goal is to get rid of the source of fear in a fearful situation, the current study therefore hypothesized that information relating to the fear source would be better attended to and recalled than contextual information, which was validated by comparing participants’ recall of different types of information presented in a fearful VR gaming context. Methodology Fifty-four participants were divided into two groups and finished a specific segment of a VR game with different fear levels. Results No significant difference in recall performance on the questions about the appearance of the fear source and the questions about the interaction with the source was observed between the fear and less-fear groups. Yet, contextual information was better recalled than information related to the fear source in both groups. Regardless of whether the contextual information was provided beforehand or not, participants still tended to focus primarily on the environment in the gameplay. Also, the immersiveness of the gameplay was positively related to participants’ fear level. Discussion The tendency of attending to contextual information was speculated to be unconditional, in line with the risk calculation observed in prey when situated in less familiar contexts. It was suggested to further validate the present primarily findings by adopting VR headset with eye-tracking function in future studies. Lastly, an understanding of fear’s effect on memorization might also provide some information for developing future survival horror games.

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“…The proposition of discrete emotions has been unquestionably adopted in explaining different emotion-related activities for decades. However, different models and assertions have also been made to supplement or even dispute the basicness of these discrete emotions (e.g., Jack, Garrod, & Schyns, 2014;Lo, Li, Lee, & Yeung, 2018;White, 2000). For example, some proposals have suggested increasing or reducing the number of basic emotions from the traditional six due to a variation of understanding about basicness (Ortony & Turner, 1990).…”

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Form Follows Function: An Investigation Into the Categorical Boundary of Surprise

Lee

2018

Psychol Rep

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The concept of basic emotions has been widely accepted in explaining human behavior. Yet, there is still no consensus on the distinctiveness of surprise. This study tried to compare the discreteness of surprise with that of other basic emotions in terms of their categorical distinctiveness. For this study, 27 undergraduates were recruited, and a new set of morphing sequences of different emotional expressions from two young Chinese posers was created. The results show that surprise is over-generalized to the perception of fear and that the categorical boundary is less discrete than for other emotional expression pairs. This blending is perhaps due to their confusion on both the perceptual and production levels. Additionally, a choice between external and internal validity when picking emotional expression stimuli is also discussed.

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Running in fear: an investigation into the dimensional account of emotion in discriminating emotional expressions

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

The research of human individual’s conformity behavior in emergency situations

The research of human individual’s conformity behavior in emergency situations

An Examination of Memory Performance in a Fearful Virtual Reality Gaming Context

Form Follows Function: An Investigation Into the Categorical Boundary of Surprise

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