Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience.

ABSTRACT: Emotion research typically searches for consistency and specificity in physiological activity across instances of an emotion category, such as anger or fear, yet studies to date have observed more variation than expected. In the present study, we adopt an alternative approach, searching inductively for structure within variation, both within and across participants. Following a novel, physiologically-triggered experience sampling procedure, participants' self-reports and peripheral physiological activity were recorded when substantial changes in cardiac activity occurred in the absence of movement. Unsupervised clustering analyses revealed variability in the number and nature of patterns of physiological activity that recurred within individuals, as well as in the affect ratings and emotio

SUBMITTER: Hoemann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature