What is emotion?

Cabanac, Michel

doi:10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00078-5

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“…An emotion refers to any brief conscious experience that intense mental activity and an elevated level of pleasure or displeasure characterises (Cabanac, 2002). Emotions involve different components including subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behaviour, instrumental behaviour, and psychophysiological changes (for example, rapid heartbeat and breathing, sweating, and muscle tension).…”

Section: Working Memorymentioning

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Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation

Gordon¹,

Ciorciari

Laer

2018

EJM

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Purpose This paper presents a study using encephalography (EEG) to investigate consumer responses to narrative videos in energy efficiency social marketing. The purpose is to assess the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation, and how these stages of narrative transportation are ordered temporally. Permanent repository linkDesign/methodology/approach Consumers took part in an EEG experiment during which they were shown four different narrative videos to identify brain response during specific video segments. FindingsThe study found that during the opening segment of the videos, attention, working memory, and emotion were high before attenuating with some introspection at the end of this segment. During the story segment of the videos attention, working memory, and emotion were also high, with attention decreasing later on but working memory, emotion, and imagination being evident. Consumer responses to each of the four videos differed. Practical implicationsThe study suggests that narratives can be a useful approach in energy efficiency social marketing. Specifically, marketers should attempt to gain focused attention and invoke emotional responses, working memory, and imagination to help consumers become narratively transported. The fit between story object and story-receiver should also be considered when creating consumer narratives. Social implicationsPolicy makers, and organisations who wish to promote pro-social behaviours such as using energy efficiently, or eating healthily should consider using narratives.Originality/value This research contributes to theory by identifying brain response relating to attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination during specific stages of narrative transportation. The study considers the role of attention, emotion, working memory, and imagination during reception of stories with different objects, and how these may relate to consumers' narrative transportation.

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Section: Working Memorymentioning

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Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation

Gordon¹,

Ciorciari

Laer

2018

EJM

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“…What can we say about interactions between cognition and emotion and finally how important are conscious versus unconscious processes in emotion research. A few years later, Cabanac (2002) mentioned that there is still no consensus in the literature on a definition of emotion and even today, a decade later, not much progress has been made. Perhaps, due to the appealing possibilities of neuroimaging methods researchers were spoiled by eye-catching colored brain images that looked nice and were easy to sell, but after all they neglected to make progress in terms of identifying a better concept of emotion and providing a more specific evidence-based definition.…”

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Neuroimaging Helps to Clarify Brain Affective Processing Without Necessarily Clarifying Emotions

Walla¹,

Panksepp²

2013

Novel Frontiers of Advanced Neuroimaging

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“…Emotion, generally speaking, is any relatively brief conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a high degree of pleasure or displeasure [21,22]. Emotions are one of the core components that characterize human beings, with physiological, affective, behavioral, and cognitive elements.…”

Section: Emotions and Moodmentioning

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Self-Monitoring of Emotions and Mood Using a Tangible Approach

Sarzotti

2018

Computers

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Nowadays Personal Informatics (PI) devices are used for sensing and saving personal data, everywhere and at any time, helping people improve their lives by highlighting areas of good and bad performances and providing a general awareness of different levels of conduct. However, not all these data are suitable to be automatically collected. This is especially true for emotions and mood. Moreover, users without experience in self-tracking may have a misperception of PI applications' limits and potentialities. We believe that current PI tools are not designed with enough understanding of such users' needs, desires, and problems they may encounter in their everyday lives. We designed and prototype the Mood TUI (Tangible User Interface), a PI tool that supports the self-reporting of mood data using a tangible interface. The platform is able to gather six different mood states and it was tested through several participatory design sessions in a secondary/high school. The solution proposed allows gathering mood values in an amusing, simple, and appealing way. Users appreciated the prototypes, suggesting several possible improvements as well as ideas on how to use the prototype in similar or totally different contexts, and giving us hints for future research.

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What is emotion?

Cited by 400 publications

References 56 publications

Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation

Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation

Neuroimaging Helps to Clarify Brain Affective Processing Without Necessarily Clarifying Emotions

Self-Monitoring of Emotions and Mood Using a Tangible Approach

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