4.6 Article

Splitting the affective atom: Divergence of valence and approach-avoidance motivation during a dynamic emotional experience

期刊

CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
卷 40, 期 7, 页码 3272-3283

出版社

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-019-00264-3

关键词

Affect; Emotion; Valence; Motivation

向作者/读者索取更多资源

This study examined the relationship between valence and approach-avoidance motivation, finding that high-approach emotions had a stronger link between valence and approach-avoidance motivation. Contrary to expectations, individuals exhibited avoidance responses during anger elicitation. Awe was identified as a distinct positive emotion where approach motivation dominated over valence.
Valence and approach-avoidance motivation are two distinct but closely related components of affect. However, little is known about how these two processes evolve and covary in a dynamic affective context. We formulated several hypotheses based on the Motivational Dimensional Model of Affect. We expected that anger would be a unique approach-related rather than avoidance-related negative emotion. We also expected that high-approach positive emotions (e.g., desire) would differ from low-approach positive emotions (e.g., amusement) producing a stronger link between valence and approach-avoidance motivation. We also explored other dynamic properties of discrete emotions such as the difference between approach-avoidance motivation and valence as a marker of balance within affective components. We asked 69 participants to provide continuous ratings of valence and approach-avoidance motivation for eight standardized clips representing different discrete emotions. Using multilevel modeling, we established a significant relationship between valence and approach-avoidance motivation with high-approach emotions producing a stronger link between valence and approach-avoidance motivation compared to neutral states and low-approach emotions. Contrary to expectations, we observed that individuals exhibited an avoidance response during anger elicitation. Finally, we found that awe was a distinct positive emotion where approach motivation dominated over valence. These findings are relevant to the theory and research on diverging processes within the core structure of affect.

作者

我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。

评论

主要评分

4.6
评分不足

次要评分

新颖性
-
重要性
-
科学严谨性
-
评价这篇论文

推荐

暂无数据
暂无数据