Feelings don't come easy: studies on the effortful nature of feelings.
نویسندگان
چکیده
We propose that experience of emotion is a mental phenomenon, which requires resources. This hypothesis implies that a concurrent cognitive load diminishes the intensity of feeling since the 2 activities are competing for the same resources. Two sets of experiments tested this hypothesis. The first line of experiments (Experiments 1-4) examined the intensity of participants' feelings as they performed a secondary (backward counting) task. The results showed that the intensity of both negative and positive feelings diminished under a cognitive load and that this attenuation of feeling was not mediated by either distraction from external stimuli or demand characteristics. In the second set of experiments (Experiments 5-6), load was created by asking the participants to focus on the feelings. Even in these circumstances, the participants who were under load reported a lower intensity of feeling than those who were not under load. We explain these findings in terms of a resource-dependent model of emotional experience. Possible implications of our findings for a broader class of phenomenological experiences are succinctly discussed.
منابع مشابه
Does easily learned mean easily remembered?: it depends on your beliefs about intelligence.
Because numerous studies have shown that feelings of encoding fluency are positively correlated with judgments of learning, a single dominant heuristic, easily learned = easily remembered (ELER), has been posited to explain how people interpret encoding fluency when assessing their own memory. However, the inferences people draw from feelings of encoding fluency may vary with their beliefs abou...
متن کاملStudies on Method for Measuring Human Feelings
In this paper it is studied how to measure human feelings. Since human feelings are not simple and very complicated and it is not easy to evaluate them. Generally human feelings are considered nonlinear and methods for paired comparison are useful to deal with nonlinear problems. For the reason it is studied how to use paired comparison for measuring human feelings. Among many methods for paire...
متن کاملThe effectiveness of film therapy on communication patterns and expressing positive feelings towards the spouse among couples with marital conflict
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of film therapy on communication patterns and expressing positive feelings to spouses among couples with marital conflicts. This research utilized a pre-test and post-test experimental design with a control group and in this study, the study population was all couples referred to Valiasr Neighborhood in Tehran in the year 2019 who were se...
متن کاملModeling Obsession with Guilty Feelings with Mediating Role of Self-Compassion Nurses
Introduction: Obsessive-compulsive behaviors in different conditions can lead to different emotional experiences. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the modeling of obsession with guilty feelings with mediating role of self-compassion in female nurses in Gorgan public hospitals. Methods: A descriptive study was a correlation type based on the structural equati...
متن کاملThe "instrumentality" heuristic: why metacognitive difficulty is desirable during goal pursuit.
The literature overwhelmingly demonstrates that feelings of ease are good and that objects that are easy to process are much liked. We propose, and demonstrate across three experiments, that this is not the case when people are pursuing a goal. This is because people pursuing a goal (e.g., "become kinder") usually invest efforts in whichever means (e.g., donate to a particular charity) they per...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of experimental psychology. General
دوره 139 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010