Valence, sensations and appraisals co-occurring with feeling moved: evidence on kama muta theory from intra-individually cross-correlated time series.

Autor: Herting AK; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway., Schubert TW; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cognition & emotion [Cogn Emot] 2022 Sep; Vol. 36 (6), pp. 1149-1165. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 22.
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2089871
Abstrakt: Emotional experiences typically labelled "being moved" or "feeling touched" may belong to one universal emotion. This emotion, which has been labelled "kama muta", is hypothesised to have a positive valence, be elicited by sudden intensifications of social closeness, and be accompanied by warmth, goosebumps and tears. Initial evidence on correlations among the kama muta components has been collected with self-reports after or during the emotion. Continuous measures during the emotion seem particularly informative, but previous work allows only restricted inferences on intra-individual processes because time series were cross-correlated across samples. In the current studies, we instead use a within-subject design to replicate and extend prior work. We compute intra-individual cross-correlations between continuous self-reports on feeling moved and (1) positive and negative affect; (2) goosebumps and subjective warmth and (3) appraisals of closeness and morality. Results confirm the predictions of kama muta theory that feeling moved by intensified communal sharing cross-correlates with appraised closeness, positive affect, warmth and (less so) goosebumps, but not with negative affect. Contrary to predictions, appraised morality cross-correlated with feeling moved as much as appraised closeness did. We conclude that strong inferences on emotional processes are possible using continuous measures, replace earlier findings, and are largely in line with theorising.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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