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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science
  • Decision Making

Background:

  • Understanding how individuals report subjective emotional states is crucial for psychology.
  • Distinguishing between genuine and instructed feelings is key to interpreting self-reports.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the cognitive processes underlying the reporting of genuine versus supposed feelings.
  • To compare the mechanisms of feeling reports with perceptual decision-making tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed two tasks per trial: indicating affective valence of images and making gender categorizations of faces.
  • Evidence accumulation modeling was employed to analyze response processes.

Main Results:

  • Genuine feeling reports are qualitatively distinct from supposed feeling reports.
  • The process of reporting feelings closely resembles that of gender categorization decisions.
  • Evidence for negative feelings accumulates faster than for positive feelings.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals report their genuine feelings when prompted, not instructed feelings.
  • Feeling reporting shares underlying mechanisms with perceptual decision-making, strengthening the analogy.
  • Asymmetry in evidence accumulation for positive and negative feelings warrants further investigation.