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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 898-903Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02174.x
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG030311, R01 AG030311-02, AG030311] Funding Source: Medline
- NIH HHS [DP1 OD003312-01, DP1OD003312, DP1 OD003312] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [K02 MH001981, K02MH001981] Funding Source: Medline
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This study examined the hypothesis that emotion is a psychological event constructed from the more basic elements of core affect and conceptual knowledge. Participants were primed with conceptual knowledge of fear, conceptual knowledge of anger, or a neutral prime and then proceeded through an affect-induction procedure designed to induce unpleasant, high-arousal affect or a neutral affective state. As predicted, only those individuals for whom conceptual knowledge of fear had been primed experienced unpleasant core affect as evidence that the world was threatening. This study provides the first experimental support for the hypothesis that people experience world-focused emotion when they conceptualize their core affective state using accessible knowledge about emotion.
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