How Do Induced Affective States Bias Emotional Contagion to Faces? A Three-Dimensional Model

dc.contributor.authorPinilla, Andrés
dc.contributor.authorTamayo, Ricardo M.
dc.contributor.authorNeira, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-23T13:07:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-23T13:07:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-31
dc.date.updated2020-02-05T16:23:06Z
dc.description.abstractAffective states can propagate in a group of people and influence their ability to judge others’ affective states. In the present paper, we present a simple mathematical model to describe this process in a three-dimensional affective space. We obtained data from 67 participants randomly assigned to two experimental groups. Participants watched either an upsetting or uplifting video previously calibrated for this goal. Immediately, participants reported their baseline subjective affect in three dimensions: (1) positivity, (2) negativity, and (3) arousal. In a second phase, participants rated the affect they subjectively judged from 10 target angry faces and ten target happy faces in the same three-dimensional scales. These judgments were used as an index of participant’s affective state after observing the faces. Participants’ affective responses were subsequently mapped onto a simple three-dimensional model of emotional contagion, in which the shortest distance between the baseline self-reported affect and the target judgment was calculated. The results display a double dissociation: negatively induced participants show more emotional contagion to angry than happy faces, while positively induced participants show more emotional contagion to happy than angry faces. In sum, emotional contagion exerted by the videos selectively affected judgments of the affective state of others’ faces. We discuss the directionality of emotional contagion to faces, considering whether negative emotions are more easily propagated than positive ones. Additionally, we comment on the lack of significant correlations between our model and standardized tests of empathy and emotional contagion.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDFG, 414044773, Open Access Publizieren 2019 - 2020 / Technische Universität Berlinen
dc.identifier.eissn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/11005
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9897
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc150 Psychologiede
dc.subject.otheremotional contagionen
dc.subject.otherfacial expressionsen
dc.subject.otherevaluative space modelen
dc.subject.otheraffective statesen
dc.subject.otherfacesen
dc.subject.otheremotionsen
dc.titleHow Do Induced Affective States Bias Emotional Contagion to Faces? A Three-Dimensional Modelen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber97en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00097en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleFrontiers in Psychologyen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameFrontiers Media S.A.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLausanneen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume11en
tub.accessrights.dnbfreeen
tub.affiliationFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik::Inst. Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik::Quality and Usability Labde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatikde
tub.affiliation.groupQuality and Usability Labde
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatikde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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