How Does the Emotional Experience Evolve? Feeling Generation as Evidence Accumulation

Ella Givon; Ayelet Itzhak-Raz; Anat Karmon-Presser; Gal Danieli; Nachshon Meiran

doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000537

How Does the Emotional Experience Evolve? Feeling Generation as Evidence Accumulation

Ella Givon, Ayelet Itzhak-Raz, Anat Karmon-Presser, Gal Danieli, Nachshon Meiran

Department of Psychology

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

How do people answer the question “How do you feel?” In the present work, participants were given 2 tasks in each trial. They first indicated whether a picture made them feel pleasant (or was supposed to be felt as pleasant, in another group), and then made gender decisions regarding faces. Evidence accumulation modeling showed that (a) reporting genuine feeling is qualitatively different from reporting the supposed feeling; (b) reporting one’s feeling is remarkably similar to gender decisions; and (c) evidence regarding negative feelings accumulates more quickly than in positive feelings. These results support the assumption that when asked, participants report genuine as opposed to supposed feelings and strengthen the analogy between feeling reports and perceptual decisions.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	271-285
Number of pages	15
Journal	Emotion
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000537
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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emotional feelings
evidence-accumulation modeling
valence

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General Psychology

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