Search Results - (Author, Cooperation:C. J. MacDonald)

2015-06-19

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

0028-0836

1476-4687

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Amygdala/cytology/metabolism/physiology ; Animals ; Behavior, Animal ; Depression/*psychology/*therapy ; Female ; Hippocampus/cytology/physiology ; Male ; Memory/*physiology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Neural Pathways ; Nucleus Accumbens/cytology/metabolism/physiology ; Optogenetics ; Pleasure/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/metabolism ; Stress, Psychological/psychology ; Time Factors

1573-6644

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Psychology

Abstract Subjects rated their emotional responses to scenes from two contrasting types of audiovisual material (comedy and horror), the order or presentation being either comedy-horror or horror-comedy. Feelings of pleasantness and relaxation, together with ratings of the funniness of comedy scenes, were enhanced when subjects viewed the comedy scenes having previously viewed the horror scenes. Similarly, horror scenes were rated as more frightening and induced more unpleasant feelings when subjects had previously viewed the comedy scenes. This contrast effect in emotional response is discussed in relation to other studies of the effects of emotion on judgments. A number of theoretical approaches are considered in attempting to explain the findings.

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1573-3653

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Psychology

Abstract In the present study subjects acted as senders and receivers of deceptive and nondeceptive person descriptions. From receivers' ratings of these messages measures of their deception accuracy and leakage accuracy were derived, together with a measure of their accuracy in decoding pure (honest) affect. Corresponding measures of each subject's sending abilities were also derived. One aim of the study was to assess the effect on decoding of prior encoding experience; this was achieved by a manipulation of the order in which subjects acted as senders and receivers. A second aim was to assess the effect on decoding of differential access to communication modalities (audiovisual, audio only, and video only). Correlations among sending measures, among receiving measures, and between sending and receiving measures were also examined, as were the relationships between these measures and (a) gender, and (b) Machiavellianism. Send-before-receive subjects obtained higher decoding accuracy scores than did receive-before-send subjects. The modality manipulation did not affect the decoding of deceptive messages, but pure affect accuracy was greater when audio cues were present. As expected, correlations among sending measures were rather greater than those among receiving measures, but the relationships between sending and receiving measures were stronger than anticipated. None of the sending or receiving measures was related to either gender or Machiavellianism. These findings are discussed in relation to previous research on the verbal and nonverbal communication of deception.

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