Toward validation of a borderline personality disorder–relevant picture set.

Eddie, David; Bates, Marsha E.

doi:10.1037/per0000173

“…Given differing moral concerns, people may simply disagree with each other regarding their moral evaluation of an image, absent any disagreement about what is portrayed in it (i.e., absent any ambiguity). Once again, divisiveness may prove highly useful for specific research goals such as eliciting psychological or physiological responses that are diagnostic of one’s political or moral preferences (e.g., [ 41 , 72 , 163 ]), or developing pictorial measures of individual differences [ 41 , 65 , 66 , 130 , 156 , 164 – 166 ]. In S5 Text , we present preliminary analyses that attempt to empirically identify images that are divisive with respect to political orientation and gender.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID): A novel stimulus set for the study of social, moral and affective processes

Crone

¹

,

Bode

²

,

Murawski

³

et al. 2018

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A major obstacle for the design of rigorous, reproducible studies in moral psychology is the lack of suitable stimulus sets. Here, we present the Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID), the largest standardized moral stimulus set assembled to date, containing 2,941 freely available photographic images, representing a wide range of morally (and affectively) positive, negative and neutral content. The SMID was validated with over 820,525 individual judgments from 2,716 participants, with normative ratings currently available for all images on affective valence and arousal, moral wrongness, and relevance to each of the five moral values posited by Moral Foundations Theory. We present a thorough analysis of the SMID regarding (1) inter-rater consensus, (2) rating precision, and (3) breadth and variability of moral content. Additionally, we provide recommendations for use aimed at efficient study design and reproducibility, and outline planned extensions to the database. We anticipate that the SMID will serve as a useful resource for psychological, neuroscientific and computational (e.g., natural language processing or computer vision) investigations of social, moral and affective processes. The SMID images, along with associated normative data and additional resources are available at https://osf.io/2rqad/.

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“…Participants with BPD reported significantly more subjective arousal during the stimulus exposure than did controls [for details see ( 80 )]. The relationship between BPD symptom severity and mean subjective arousal was of medium effect size ( r = 0.27), but not statistically significant ( p > 0.05).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The modest sample size limited the study's power to identify statistically significant effects, and replication with larger samples is needed to increase confidence in the pattern of effects found in this study. While the IAPS images used in this study to evoke an emotional response were selected by expert consensus to characterize a range of BPD sensitivities, and participants with BPD in this study reported significantly higher subjective arousal to the pictures than controls, we previously reported that there was heterogeneity across different picture cues in how arousing the present sample rated the stimulus set ( 80 ). More work is needed to build a more consistently challenging stimulus set to increase the potency of the emotionally arousing visual stimuli in future BPD studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, because eight of these images are similar in that they depict interpersonal violence, and three contain the same actors in different poses, four of these images (image numbers 6530, 6540, 6550, and 6560) were replaced by other highly ranked, self-referential pictures (2053, 2271, 2800, and 9405). See Eddie and Bates ( 80 ) for the complete picture stimuli set and descriptive analysis.…”

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Rest, Reactivity, and Recovery: A Psychophysiological Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder

Eddie

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Bates

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Vaschillo

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et al. 2018

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Difficulty regulating emotion is a cardinal feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet little is known about the automatic psychophysiological processes involved in this phenotype. Inconsistent findings have emerged from studies that employed limited assessments (e.g., heart rate variability, skin conductance) of autonomic nervous system response to emotional contexts, and compared groups based on the presence or absence of BPD as a categorical diagnosis. This exploratory study assessed a comprehensive set of autonomic nervous system processes in 44 individuals (22 with BPD) at rest, in response to emotionally evocative stimuli, and during a subsequent recovery period. BPD was characterized with a dimensional measure of BPD symptom severity, as a well by categorical diagnosis. At baseline and across experimental tasks, higher heart rate was observed in those diagnosed with BPD compared to controls, and in those expressing greater BPD symptom severity. These effects, however, were fully mediated by differences in physical exercise. In contrast, during recovery from emotional activation, greater symptom severity predicted consistently higher levels of multiple sympathetic and parasympathetic processes compared to lower symptom severity. Overall, these findings suggest that the heart rate elevations sometimes observed in those diagnosed with BPD may be associated with individual and group differences in levels of physical exercise. Results further indicate that adaptive psychophysiological recovery responses following emotional challenge may be disrupted in proportion to BPD symptom severity, independently of exercise. Results highlight the utility of considering lifestyle factors and symptom severity in studies of emotional activation and regulation processes in BPD.

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“…Given differing moral concerns, people may simply disagree with each other regarding their moral evaluation of an image, absent any disagreement about what is portrayed in it (i.e., absent any ambiguity). Once again, divisiveness may prove highly useful for specific research goals such as eliciting psychological or physiological responses that are diagnostic of one's political or moral preferences (e.g., [41,72,163]), or developing pictorial measures of individual differences [41,65,66,130,156,[164][165][166]. In S5 Text, we present preliminary analyses that attempt to empirically identify images that are divisive with respect to political orientation and gender.…”

Section: Inter-rater Consensusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID): A Novel Stimulus Set for the Study of Social, Moral and Affective Processes

Crone¹,

Bode²,

Murawski³

et al. 2017

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A major obstacle for the design of rigorous, reproducible studies in moral psychology is the lack of suitable stimulus sets. Here, we present the Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID), the largest standardized moral stimulus set assembled to date, containing 2,941 freely available photographic images, representing a wide range of morally (and affectively) positive, negative and neutral content. The SMID was validated with over 820,525 individual judgments from 2,716 participants, with normative ratings currently available for all images on affective valence and arousal, moral wrongness, and relevance to each of the five moral values posited by Moral Foundations Theory. We present a thorough analysis of the SMID regarding (1) inter-rater consensus, (2) rating precision, and (3) breadth and variability of moral content. Additionally, we provide recommendations for use aimed at efficient study design and reproducibility, and outline planned extensions to the database. We anticipate that the SMID will serve as a useful resource for psychological, neuroscientific and computational (e.g., natural language processing or computer vision) investigations of social, moral and affective processes. The SMID images, along with associated normative data and additional resources are available at https://osf.io/2rqad/.

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Toward validation of a borderline personality disorder–relevant picture set.

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The Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID): A novel stimulus set for the study of social, moral and affective processes

The Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID): A novel stimulus set for the study of social, moral and affective processes

Rest, Reactivity, and Recovery: A Psychophysiological Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder

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