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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

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  • Affective imagery research traditionally focuses on fear, neglecting mild, everyday aversive events.
  • Understanding responses to common negative stimuli is vital for basic and clinical contexts.
  • Mechanisms of everyday aversive imagery remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically investigate behavioral and physiological responses to aversive and appetitive mental imagery.
  • To identify methodological factors influencing the potency of affective imagery.
  • To establish reliable markers for everyday aversive imagery.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments were conducted, systematically varying imagery duration, instructional focus, and prompt design.
  • Electromyography (EMG) for corrugator activity, heart rate, and skin temperature were measured.
  • Subjective valence and arousal ratings were collected alongside physiological data.

Main Results:

  • Aversive imagery elicited robust corrugator EMG potentiation and weaker autonomic responses compared to audiovisual stimulation.
  • Optimized paradigms demonstrated coherent subjective and physiological changes for aversive vs. appetitive imagery.
  • Imagery vividness modulated responses, and effects reflected genuine affective experience, not semantic knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • Baseline physiological and subjective markers for everyday aversive imagery in young adults were established.
  • Methodological optimization is critical for eliciting reliable affective imagery responses.
  • This work provides a framework for studying sensitivity to ordinary stimuli in diverse contexts.