Lay conceptions of "being moved" ("bewegt sein") include a joyful and a sad type: Implications for theory and research.

ABSTRACT: Being moved has received increased attention in emotion psychology as a social emotion that fosters bonds between individuals and within communities. This increased attention, however, has also sparked debates about whether the term "being moved" refers to a single distinct profile of emotion components or rather to a range of different emotion profiles. We addressed this question by investigating lay conceptions of the emotion components (i.e., elicitors, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, bodily symptoms, and consequences for thought/action) of "bewegt sein" (the German term for "being moved"). Participants (N = 106) provided written descriptions of both a moving personal experience and their conceptual prototype of "being moved," which were subjected to content analysis to obtai

SUBMITTER: Schindler I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9612584 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature