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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Emotions are theorized to involve coordinated experiential, behavioral, and physiological responses.
  • Empirical evidence for this general 'response coherence' is inconsistent.
  • A dual-process perspective suggests coherence may depend on automatic versus reflective systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if emotion response coherence is maximal within automatic and reflective systems, and minimal across them.
  • To investigate the conditional nature of response coherence based on processing systems.
  • To examine the interplay between automatic and reflective emotional responses.

Main Methods:

  • 36 participants were subjected to an anger provocation.
  • Automatic responses measured included anger accessibility and physiological responses.
  • Reflective responses measured included anger experience and instrumental behavior.

Main Results:

  • Response coherence was observed within the automatic system (anger accessibility and physiology).
  • Response coherence was also found within the reflective system (anger experience and instrumental behavior).
  • Coherence was not found across the automatic and reflective systems.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion response coherence is system-dependent, not a general phenomenon.
  • Findings support a dual-process framework for understanding emotional responses.
  • The results have implications for the functional understanding of emotions.