TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion inductions cause changes in activation levels of the behavioural inhibition and approach systems
AU - Yan, Changmin
AU - Dillard, James Price
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - Using the Life Inventory Task to induce emotions (fear, anger, and happiness) and Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS questionnaire to measure motivational systems this experiment (N = 305) investigated the effects of emotion inductions on self-reported emotions and motivational systems. Structural equation modeling results validated the Life Inventory Task as an effective emotion induction technique and revealed that experimentally induced emotions predicted BIS/BAS activation. Specifically, happiness and anger, both approach emotions, predicted BAS, while fear, a withdrawal emotion, predicted BIS. Such empirical evidence supported the notion that emotions are associated with motivational systems by their unique action tendencies (withdrawal and approach), not by their valence (negative and positive).
AB - Using the Life Inventory Task to induce emotions (fear, anger, and happiness) and Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS questionnaire to measure motivational systems this experiment (N = 305) investigated the effects of emotion inductions on self-reported emotions and motivational systems. Structural equation modeling results validated the Life Inventory Task as an effective emotion induction technique and revealed that experimentally induced emotions predicted BIS/BAS activation. Specifically, happiness and anger, both approach emotions, predicted BAS, while fear, a withdrawal emotion, predicted BIS. Such empirical evidence supported the notion that emotions are associated with motivational systems by their unique action tendencies (withdrawal and approach), not by their valence (negative and positive).
KW - Approach systems
KW - Behavioural inhibition
KW - Emotion
KW - Emotion inductions
KW - Motivation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2009.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2009.12.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:76449086733
VL - 48
SP - 676
EP - 680
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 5
ER -