scholarly journals Can valence and origin of emotional words influence the assessments of ambiguous stimuli in terms of warmth or competence?

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e10488
Author(s):  
Kamil K. Imbir ◽  
Maciej Pastwa
Keyword(s):  
Affective State ◽  
General Character ◽  
Dual Processes ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Ambiguous Stimuli ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Origin Effect

People tend to think that emotions influence the way they think in a spectacular way. We wanted to determine whether it is possible to prime the assessments of ambiguous stimuli by presenting emotion-laden words. We did not expect the differences in assessments that depend only on the emotional factors to be particularly large. Participants were presented with words differing in valence and origin of an affective state, but aligned for arousal, concreteness, length and frequency of use. Their first task was to remember a word. While keeping the word in mind, their second task was to guess by intuition whether the symbol was related to certain traits. Participants assessed objects represented by coding symbols on the scales of warmth or competence. We expected positive valence and automatic origin to promote higher ratings in terms of warmth and reflective origin to promote higher ratings in terms of competence. Positive valence appeared to boost assessments in terms of both warmth and competence, while the origin effect was found to be dissociative: automatic origin promoted intensity of warmth assessments and reflective origin intensity of competence assessments. The study showed an existing relation between emotional and social aspects of the mind, and therefore supports the conclusion that both domains may result from dual processes of a more general character.

scholarly journals ANATOMY OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS IN THE BOETHIUS’ "DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE"

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
A. Morozova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
The Face ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Different Parts

The article analyses a number of the locations of emotions and related to them emotional words and feelings using the philosophical text of Boethius, a prominent philosopher and translator of Late Antiquity, "De consolatione philosophiae". The declared work has a significant informative potential in relation to the emotional sphere, due to the circumstances of its creation, accompanied by a significant number of emotional reflections made by Boethius, and the chosen genre (the combination of consolatio and protreptics). The ancient emotional tradition left its mark on the Boethius' perception of emotional locations, directing it to the non-monocentric localisation of feelings in different parts of the human physical, spiritual and mental system. The main seats of the emotions are: mind (mens), animus, soul (anima), heart (cor), body (corpus). Among the above-mentioned emotional localisations, the dominant role is played by the mind (mens) both in quantitative (10) and semantic indicators. In the Boethius's worldview, the mind is associated, firstly, with the philosopher's mental health, his ability to maintain calm behaviour in the face of life's disasters, and, secondly, with the concept of the similarity of the human beings to God by their minds. There are both negative (passionate desire, hope, joy, anger, etc.) and positive (joy of heaven, desire for good) feelings in the mind. The second most important emotional location is animus (7), in which the central positive feelings (love and positive hope) are inspired, meeting only in pair with animus. We hypothesise that the latter is perceived by Boethius as an analogue of the Platonic and Christian "soul", the leading centre of spiritual human potentials. Similarly, positive and negative (anger, sorrow, passions, etc.) emotions arise and influence it. The last two locations indicate the physical nature of human – body and heart – and concentrate only on negative emotions – pleasure and passionate desire. Conclusions are made that most emotions have the external nature in relation to men, which correlates to the Stoic emotional tradition.

scholarly journals Words that Fascinate the Listener

2014 ◽  
pp. 1627-1639
Author(s):  
Felix Weninger ◽  
Pascal Staudt ◽  
Björn Schuller
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Discriminative Power ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Word Usage ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Extensive Test ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
Ted Talks

In a large scale study on 843 transcripts of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, the authors address the relation between word usage and categorical affective ratings of lectures by a large group of internet users. Users rated the lectures by assigning one or more predefined tags which relate to the affective state evoked in the audience (e. g., ‘fascinating', ‘funny', ‘courageous', ‘unconvincing' or ‘long-winded'). By automatic classification experiments, they demonstrate the usefulness of linguistic features for predicting these subjective ratings. Extensive test runs are conducted to assess the influence of the classifier and feature selection, and individual linguistic features are evaluated with respect to their discriminative power. In the result, classification whether the frequency of a given tag is higher than on average can be performed most robustly for tags associated with positive valence, reaching up to 80.7% accuracy on unseen test data.

scholarly journals Using Primary Reinforcement to Enhance Translatability of a Human Affect and Decision-Making Judgment Bias Task

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Vikki Neville ◽  
Peter Dayan ◽  
Iain D. Gilchrist ◽  
Elizabeth S. Paul ◽  
Michael Mendl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Lapse Rate ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
Judgment Bias ◽  
Affective Arousal ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Positive Valence

Abstract Good translatability of behavioral measures of affect (emotion) between human and nonhuman animals is core to comparative studies. The judgment bias (JB) task, which measures “optimistic” and “pessimistic” decision-making under ambiguity as indicators of positive and negative affective valence, has been used in both human and nonhuman animals. However, one key disparity between human and nonhuman studies is that the former typically use secondary reinforcers (e.g., money) whereas the latter typically use primary reinforcers (e.g., food). To address this deficiency and shed further light on JB as a measure of affect, we developed a novel version of a JB task for humans using primary reinforcers. Data on decision-making and reported affective state during the JB task were analyzed using computational modeling. Overall, participants grasped the task well, and as anticipated, their reported affective valence correlated with trial-by-trial variation in offered volume of juice. In addition, previous findings from monetary versions of the task were replicated: More positive prediction errors were associated with more positive affective valence, a higher lapse rate was associated with lower affective arousal, and affective arousal decreased as a function of number of trials completed. There was no evidence that more positive valence was associated with greater “optimism,” but instead, there was evidence that affective valence influenced the participants' decision stochasticity, whereas affective arousal tended to influence their propensity for errors. This novel version of the JB task provides a useful tool for investigation of the links between primary reward and punisher experience, affect, and decision-making, especially from a comparative perspective.

Terminological niche of scientific concept and its dynamics (on the example of ecological and botanical names)

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
L. P. Mytsyk
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Normative Language ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Competitive Relations ◽  
Time Gap ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Gradual Transformation

On the example of the concepts of «lawn», «phytocoenosis», «ecology» outlines the general laws of the gradual transformation of foreign-language professional word in the scientific term. It is proposed the following definition of the latter concepts. Ecology is a science about relationships of an organism or community of organisms with environmental factors (natural and anthropogenic). The process of formation of a new term, its approval as a full and irreplaceable in the professional language as well as the accuracy and appropriateness of the use will be more clear and expressive, if they come from an analysis of the concept of niche terminology. These words («terminological niche») is called a set of practical and scientific factors that provide or may provide a normal appearance and communicative functioning of the term. Under «normal functioning» of the term we mean the state of its constant use in any style and genre of contemporary normative language understood by the reader according to the signified concept. The proposed understanding of the terminological niche allows in readable position to see the rule that each term pass through the following stages of its development. 1. Free terminological niche stage. At this time, there is no any name of the material or intellectual object (object, phenomenon, point of view, and so on) after the formation of it in reality or in the mind of the author. Between the cause (the appearance of the object) and the effect (the formation of its name), there is a time gap that exists within minutes, but can last for years. 2. Stage of filling the free terminological niche (formation of the term). This time is characterized, among other things, by the existence of professional words mostly as synonymous new object names with their «desire» to leave (as a result of competitive relations of different professional words) to the level of a full indispensable term within the normative language and the specific term system. At the beginning of this stage of professional words (the term precursors) can be used in the narrow circle of specialists or be banned. This is the primary latent (hidden) state of the term. 3. The stage completely filled a niche – during the maturity of the term, its stay at the height of the functional capacity, the situation is universal acceptance of relevant specific of the term designated of its concept. 4. Step regressive niche is time of regression, degradation of the term, which is manifested, among other things, to homonymy, secondary synonymy, reducing in the frequency of use of the term in written and oral texts. 5. Stage of dead niche. The situation is of exhaustion factors that ensure the normal funtioning of the term and the lack of its use in texts. The ability to save the historical meaning of the term indicates the presence of a secondary latent niche. The adjustments in the above-proposed scheme can make cases of return the names of the past and rename concepts. It is shown that the terms are characterized by emotional and expressive component at all stages of their existence. The intensity of expression varies from a minimum periodic manifestations to the maximum expressiveness, which can significantly distort the content of the concept, as is often the case with the term «ecology».

scholarly journals Use of Living Strategies among Adults Aging with HIV in Canada: Comparison by Age-Group Using Data from the HIV, Health and Rehabilitation Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 232595821877404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Kathleen O’Brien ◽  
Matthieu Dagenais ◽  
Patricia Solomon ◽  
Catherine Worthington ◽  
Soo Chan Carusone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Successful Aging ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Positive Outlook ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Living With Hiv

Objective: To examine the type and frequency of living strategies used by adults living with HIV. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional web-based survey that included 51 living strategies: maintaining sense of control, attitudes and beliefs, blocking HIV out of the mind, and social interaction. We examined the frequency of use and compared the proportion of respondents who engaged in strategies across 3 age-groups (<40 years, 40-49 years, and ≥50 years). Results: Of the 935 participants, the majority were men (79%) and most (≥60%) engaged “most” or “all of the time” in healthy lifestyle strategies and maintained a positive outlook living with HIV. Compared to younger participants, a higher proportion of older adults (≥50 years) engaged “most” or “all the time” in strategies that involved maintaining control over health and adopting positive attitudes and outlook living with HIV. Conclusions: Findings can help to inform the role of self-management to enhance successful aging with HIV.

scholarly journals Words that Fascinate the Listener

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Weninger ◽  
Pascal Staudt ◽  
Björn Schuller
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Discriminative Power ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Extensive Test ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
Ted Talks

In a large scale study on 843 transcripts of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, the authors address the relation between word usage and categorical affective ratings of lectures by a large group of internet users. Users rated the lectures by assigning one or more predefined tags which relate to the affective state evoked in the audience (e. g., ‘fascinating’, ‘funny’, ‘courageous’, ‘unconvincing’ or ‘long-winded’). By automatic classification experiments, they demonstrate the usefulness of linguistic features for predicting these subjective ratings. Extensive test runs are conducted to assess the influence of the classifier and feature selection, and individual linguistic features are evaluated with respect to their discriminative power. In the result, classification whether the frequency of a given tag is higher than on average can be performed most robustly for tags associated with positive valence, reaching up to 80.7% accuracy on unseen test data.

Emotional words impact the mind but not the body: Evidence from pupillary responses

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1554-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Bayer ◽  
Werner Sommer ◽  
Annekathrin Schacht
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Pupillary Responses ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Negative and Neutral Valences of Affective Theory of Mind are More Impaired than Positive Valence in Clinically Stable Schizophrenia Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 460-464
Author(s):  
Thammanard Charernboon
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Normal Controls

Objective People with schizophrenia show impairment in social cognition, such as emotion recognition and theory of mind. The current study aims to compare the ability of clinically stable schizophrenia patients to decode the positive, negative and neutral affective mental state of others with educational match-paired normal control.Methods 50 people with schizophrenia and 50 matched controls were compared on the positive, negative and neutral emotional valence of affective theory of mind using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Tests.Results The results showed that people with schizophrenia performed worse in negative and neutral emotional valence than normal controls; however, no significant differences in decoding positive valence were found.Conclusion Our data suggest that there is variability in the performance of affective theory of mind according to emotion valence; the impairments seem to be specific to only negative and neutral emotions, but not positive ones.

scholarly journals MEANING OF EMOTIONAL WORDS IN THE FORMATION OF EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Darmon Saidakhmedovna Uraeva ◽  
◽  
Iroda Sidikovna Khakharova ◽  
Gulrukh Shavkatovna Khakhorova
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Words ◽  
Single Sentence ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Syntactic Function ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
The Mind

The article analyzes the emotional perception and understanding of emotion in the mind through examples from more than twenty stories by the English author Somerset Maugham. The most characteristic syntactic function of pronouns in the Uzbek language is manifested in the expression of emotions such as command, desire, emotion, as a single sentence consisting of one component. It has been established that emotional words are related to the system of mind and language.

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