Happiness feels light and sadness feels heavy: introducing valence-related bodily sensation maps of emotions.

Autor: Hartmann M; Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Ueberlandstrasse 12, 3900, Brig, Switzerland. Matthias.hartmann@fernuni.ch.; Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Matthias.hartmann@fernuni.ch., Lenggenhager B; Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland., Stocker K; Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Ueberlandstrasse 12, 3900, Brig, Switzerland.; Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; Psychopharmacology Research, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychological research [Psychol Res] 2023 Feb; Vol. 87 (1), pp. 59-83. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Feb 28.
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-022-01661-3
Abstrakt: Bodily sensation mapping (BSM) is a recently developed self-report tool for the assessment of emotions in which people draw their sensations of activation in a body silhouette. Following the circumplex model of affect, activity and valence are the underling dimensions of every emotional experience. The aim of this study was to introduce the neglected valence dimension in BSM. We found that participants systematically report valence-related sensations of bodily lightness for positive emotions (happiness, love, pride), and sensations of bodily heaviness in response to negative emotions (e.g., anger, fear, sadness, depression) with specific body topography (Experiment 1). Further experiments showed that both computers (using a machine learning approach) and humans recognize emotions better when classification is based on the combined activity- and valence-related BSMs compared to either type of BSM alone (Experiments 2 and 3), suggesting that both types of bodily sensations reflect distinct parts of emotion knowledge. Importantly, participants found it clearer to indicate their bodily sensations induced by sadness and depression in terms of bodily weight than bodily activity (Experiment 2 and 4), suggesting that the added value of valence-related BSMs is particularly relevant for the assessment of emotions at the negative end of the valence spectrum.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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