Journal article
Increased feelings with increased body signals
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, Vol.1(1), pp.37-48
06/2006
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsl005
PMCID: PMC2555412
PMID: 18985099
Abstract
Since the beginning of psychology as a scientific endeavour, the question of whether the body plays a role in how a person experiences emotion has been the centre of emotion research. Patients with structural gastrointestinal disorders, such as Crohn's disease, provide an intriguing opportunity to study the influence of body signals on emotions and feelings. In the present study, emotionally salient films were presented to participants with Crohn's disease in either the active state (Crohn's-active, CA) or silent state (Crohn's-silent, CS), and to normal comparison (NC) participants. We hypothesized that CA participants would have increased feelings, compared with CS and NC participants, when viewing emotional films designed to elicit happiness, disgust, sadness and fear. Gastric myoelectrical activity (electrogastrogram, or EGG) was measured during the films, and after each film was presented, participants rated emotion intensity (arousal) and pleasantness (valence). All groups labelled the emotions similarly. In support of the hypothesis, CA participants showed an increase in subjective arousal for negative emotions compared with CS and NC participants. The CA participants also showed increased EGG during emotional film viewing, as well as a strong positive correlation of EGG with arousal ratings. Together, these findings can be taken as evidence that aberrant feedback from the gastrointestinal system up-regulates the intensity of feelings of negative emotions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Increased feelings with increased body signals
- Creators
- Eduardo P. M Vianna - University of IowaJoel Weinstock - Tufts UniversityDavid Elliott - University of IowaRobert Summers - University of IowaDaniel Tranel - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, Vol.1(1), pp.37-48
- DOI
- 10.1093/scan/nsl005
- PMID
- 18985099
- PMCID
- PMC2555412
- NLM abbreviation
- Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
- ISSN
- 1749-5016
- eISSN
- 1749-5024
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2006
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984002450702771
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