How aware are people of their current affect? A physiology-based investigation of affective awareness.

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI:10.1037/emo0001487

Christoph Heine, Michael Dufner

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Abstract

The assumption that people differ in affective awareness (i.e., the extent to which a person's subjective affective experience matches their affective bodily state) is central to emotional competence. To test this assumption empirically, we used a physiology-based approach to investigate individual differences in affective awareness. Participants (N = 255) viewed 76 pictures with affective content and rated their experienced affect. Facial muscle activity during picture presentation was assessed via electromyography (EMG) as a direct physiological measure of affective reactions. We used a multilevel model to quantify affective awareness as the strength of the intraindividual relationship between a person's EMG reactions and affect ratings. This relationship was positive on average and differed significantly between participants. These individual differences in affective awareness were reliable and stable over time. Affective awareness was higher for women than for men and went along with generally strong affective EMG reactivity and better socioemotional abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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人们对自己当前的影响有多了解？基于生理学的情感意识研究。

人们在情感意识上的差异（即，一个人的主观情感体验与他们的情感身体状态的匹配程度）是情感能力的核心假设。为了从经验上验证这一假设，我们使用了基于生理学的方法来调查情感意识的个体差异。参与者（N = 255）观看了76张包含情感内容的图片，并对他们所经历的情感进行了评分。通过肌电图（EMG）作为情感反应的直接生理测量来评估图片呈现时的面部肌肉活动。我们使用了一个多层次模型来量化情感意识，作为一个人的肌电反应和情感评级之间的个人内部关系的强度。这种关系平均为正，但在参与者之间存在显著差异。随着时间的推移，这些情感意识的个体差异是可靠和稳定的。女性的情感意识比男性高，情感肌电图反应普遍较强，社会情感能力也较好。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.