The evaluation-behavior link: Direct and beyond valence

Alexopoulos, Théodore; Ric, François

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.10.017

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“…In turn, activation of approach-avoidance manual actions has been shown to trigger the corresponding affective representation (e.g., Dru and Cretenet 2008;Eder and Klauer 2009;van Peer et al 2010), biasing subsequent valence judgments and categorizations. These findings support an embodiment-based account of affective processing, at least according to some researchers (e.g., Alexopoulos and Ric 2007;Markman and Brendl 2005;Niedenthal et al 2005). However, there is growing dissatisfaction with the arm flexion/extension paradigm because of its limited ecological validity.…”

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confidence: 74%

Social embodiment in directional stepping behavior

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Embodiment theories emphasize the role played by sensory and motor processes in psychological states, such as social information processing. Motivated by this idea, we examined how whole-body postural behaviors couple to social affective cues, viz., pictures of smiling and angry faces. We adopted a Simon-like paradigm, whereby healthy female volunteers were asked to select and initiate a forward or backward step on a force plate in response to the gender of the poser (male/female), regardless of emotion. Detailed analysis of the spatiotemporal unfolding of the body center of pressure during the steps revealed that task-irrelevant emotion had no effect on the initiation times of the steps, i.e., there was no evidence of an affective Simon effect. An unexpected finding was that steps were initiated relatively slow in response to female angry faces. This Stroop-like effect suggests that postural behavior is influenced by whether certain stimulus features match or mismatch.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Social embodiment in directional stepping behavior

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“…The analysis also revealed several points of interest. First, we observed a negative correlation between the level of anger conveyed by a trait and the tendency to approach a person possessing the trait (r 0 −.82), which argues against the theoretically expected positive relationship between anger and approach (e.g., Alexopoulos & Ric, 2007;Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009;Frijda et al, 1989). Second, we found that linguistic dimensions such as trait frequency (as measured either in books or in movies' subtitles) were positively correlated with several dimensions-namely, with approach tendencies (r 0 .11 and .13, ps < .02, for books and subtitles, respectively) and happiness (rs 0 .09 and .13, ps < .04, for books and subtitles, respectively).…”

Section: Relationships Between Emotional Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 60%

“…Thus, the behavioral consequences should be different depending on whether the stimulus conveys fear or anger. In line with this view, recent studies (Alexopoulos & Ric, 2007) have indicated that stimulus words associated with happiness or anger (both associated with approach) are responded to faster by a movement implying arm flexion (i.e., an approach behavior; e.g., Cacioppo, Priester, & Bernston, 1993) than are stimulus words associated with fear or sadness (both associated with avoidance).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…As a result, happy and angry participants (anger and happiness being associated with certainty appraisals) make similarly more optimistic predictions than do fearful participants (fear being associated with uncertainty). In a similar vein, participants respond faster to emotional stimuli with an approach movement when it is associated with happiness and anger than when it is associated with fear and sadness (the effect being reversed when participants respond with an avoidance movement; Alexopoulos & Ric, 2007). Other research on various areas of judgment, such as risk estimation (DeSteno, Petty, Wegener, & Rucker, 2000;Keltner, Ellsworth, & Edwards, 1993), stereotyping (Bodenhausen, Sheppard, & Kramer, 1994;Tiedens & Linton, 2001), prejudice (Cottrell & Neuberg, 2005), persuasion (Moons & Mackie, 2007), and consumer decision making (Han, Lerner, & Keltner, 2007), has revealed that the impact of negative emotions or stimuli can vary to a great extent depending on which specific emotion (e.g., anger vs. fear) the situation or the stimuli are eliciting.…”

Section: Categorical Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Emotional norms for 524 French personality trait words

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Newly measured rating norms provide a database of emotion-related dimensions for 524 French trait words. Measures include valence, approach/avoidance tendencies associated with the trait, possessor-and other-relevance of the trait, and discrete emotions conveyed by the trait (i.e., anger, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness). The normative data were obtained from 328 participants and were revealed to be stable across samples and gender. These data go beyond a dimensional structure and consider more fine-grained descriptions such as the categorical emotions, as well as the perspective of the evaluator conveyed by the traits. They should thus be particularly useful for researchers interested in emotion or in the emotional dimension of cognition, action, or personality. The database is available as supplementary material.

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“…Analyses of the reaction times revealed that arm flexions (extensions) are initiated faster in response to pleasant (unpleasant) visual stimuli than with the converse stimulus-response assignment. These findings have been taken to reflect automatic behavioral tendencies elicited by affective stimuli (e.g., [10]). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%