The mechanism of emotional contagion

Qiyong, Zhang; Chen, Cheng‐Hui; Lu, Jiamei; Zhang, Pengcheng

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2016.01423

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“…Skin conductivity represents the resistance value or the amount of current passing between two points of the human skin, which can reflect the changes in human emotions [38]. When the human body is in a state of tension or emotional anxiety, the human body's sympathetic nerves are in a state of excitement, which leads to the activity of sweat glands increases, the secretion of sweat increases, and the value of skin electricity increases [39].…”

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Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Landscape Features of Urban Community Parks on Health-Related Feelings of Users

Zhang

Liu

2021

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Urban community parks are closely related to the health of residents, and have a positive effect on residents’ perception of nature, alleviating anxiety, and promoting physical health. Many previous studies have examined the impact of community parks on the health of the population, but few studies have investigated the potential of specific landscape elements in community parks to restore physical health. We conducted psychological questionnaires with 440 users of community parks in Shanghai through on-site surveys. Based on the psychological questionnaire, a structural equation model of the relationship between the community park landscape environment and users’ feelings was established. The model indicated that the natural environment, activity environment, and rest environment in the community park had positive effects on the physical, mental, and social health of users. At the same time, we recruited 50 participants to conduct laboratory experiments examining physiological changes while participants viewed different types of scene photographs showing the same landscape element. By measuring physiological indicators, including skin conductivity and heart rate, we sought to identify the types of landscape elements that help relieve the stress of users. The results revealed that flower clusters and waterscapes in the natural environment landscape, plastic fitness trails and fitness equipment places in the sports area, landscape elements such as benches with backrests, Chinese style pavilions, and green corridors with plants in the rest space, played positive roles in alleviating feelings of pressure and promoting relaxation among community park users. Based on these findings, we propose specific design strategies to improve the landscape health of community parks.

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Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Landscape Features of Urban Community Parks on Health-Related Feelings of Users

Zhang

Liu

2021

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“…Previous studies have proved the impact of emotional stimulus' arousal on time perception (Smith et al, 2011; Van and Balsam, 2014;Wang et al, 2016). Moreover, individual physiological differences have been found for the same type of emotional arousal (Zhang and Lu, 2013;Zhang et al, 2016). Thus, individual differences in physiological arousal may influence time perception.…”

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“…Prior studies have found that individuals with high emotional awareness are more likely to produce high physiological arousal, whereas those with low emotional awareness produce low arousal (Zhang and Lu, 2013;Wang et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2016). Emotional awareness refers to the ability to recognize and describe one's own and also others' emotions (Lane and Schwartz, 1987;Zhang and Lu, 2013;Wang et al, 2015); moreover, it is closely related to physiological arousal.…”

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“…Emotional awareness refers to the ability to recognize and describe one's own and also others' emotions (Lane and Schwartz, 1987;Zhang and Lu, 2013;Wang et al, 2015); moreover, it is closely related to physiological arousal. Zhang et al (2016) used blood volume pulse (BVP) and resistance from skin conductance (SCR) as emotional arousal indexes to explore the relationship between emotional awareness and emotional arousal. Their results confirmed that in the emotion conditions (positive and negative), the rate of physiological change (i.e., BVP, SCR) in the high emotional awareness group was higher, compared with that of the low emotional awareness group.…”

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“…Their study also used path analysis to explore the mechanism from stimuli awareness to emotional arousal: when the emotional expression was presented to participants, their awareness of emotion led to unconscious imitation of the expressions. Moreover, the unconscious imitation often occurred with physiological arousal, which caused them to produce the corresponding emotion (Zhang and Lu, 2013;Zhang et al, 2016). Therefore, in the same discrete emotional stimulus, high awareness resulted in high mimicry with high emotional arousal; however, the opposite was true for low emotional awareness.…”

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The Influence of Emotional Awareness on Time Perception: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Prior studies found that participants overestimated both negative and positive emotional stimuli, compared with neutral emotion. This phenomenon can be explained by the “arousal mechanism.” Participants demonstrated individual differences in emotion perception. In other words, high emotional awareness resulted in high emotional arousal, and vice versa. This study extended existing findings by exploring the influence of emotional awareness on time perception in a temporal generalization task, while recording electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. The findings revealed that in the positive emotion condition, the high emotional awareness group made more overestimations, compared with the low emotional awareness group. However, no difference was observed in the neutral or negative emotion conditions. Moreover, the event-related potential (ERP) results showed that in the positive emotion condition, the high awareness group elicited larger vertex positive potential (VPP) amplitudes, compared with that of the low awareness group. However, no such differences were observed in the neutral and negative emotion conditions. Moreover, the contingent negative variation (CNV) (200–300, 300–490 ms) component showed that in the positive emotion, the amplitudes of the high awareness group were larger than that of the low awareness group; however, they did not show differences in the neutral condition. The findings of this study suggest that high emotional awareness produces higher physiological arousal; moreover, when participants were required to estimate the time duration of emotional pictures, they tended to make higher time overestimation. Thus, our results support the relationship between emotional awareness and time perception.

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Application of Embodied Cognition Theory in the Education and Management of College Students’ Mental Health Based on “Internet+”

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2019

Application of Intelligent Systems in Multi-Modal Information Analytics

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The mechanism of emotional contagion

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Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Landscape Features of Urban Community Parks on Health-Related Feelings of Users

Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Landscape Features of Urban Community Parks on Health-Related Feelings of Users

The Influence of Emotional Awareness on Time Perception: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Application of Embodied Cognition Theory in the Education and Management of College Students’ Mental Health Based on “Internet+”

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