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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation
Published on: August 26, 2011
A dynamical systems interpretation of a dimensional model of emotion
1National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA. thayer@1pc.grc.nia.nih.gov
Abstract:
The dimensional structure of emotion was investigated using self reports of induced mood and idiographic and nomothetic analyses. Subjects attended four experimental sessions during which an array of affective states was induced via auditory, visual, and imaginal channels. For each of 118 stimulus events, subjects self-rated their response. Factor analysis yielded the predicted bipolar factors of valence and arousal: these were obtained in group-aggregated analysis and subsequently confirmed as change dimensions at the intraindividual level. Controversy over the fundamental dimensions of affective space was considered with respect to methodological issues such as factor rotation and sampling of data space. Valence and arousal are discussed as motivational, driving parameters of affective experience and a dynamical systems conceptualization of emotion is proposed.
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