How Do Induced Affective States Bias Emotional Contagion to Faces? A Three-Dimensional Model.

ABSTRACT: Affective states can propagate in a group of people and influence their ability to judge others' affective states. In the present paper, we present a simple mathematical model to describe this process in a three-dimensional affective space. We obtained data from 67 participants randomly assigned to two experimental groups. Participants watched either an upsetting or uplifting video previously calibrated for this goal. Immediately, participants reported their baseline subjective affect in three dimensions: (1) positivity, (2) negativity, and (3) arousal. In a second phase, participants rated the affect they subjectively judged from 10 target angry faces and ten target happy faces in the same three-dimensional scales. These judgments were used as an index of participant's affective state aft

SUBMITTER: Pinilla A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006022 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature