McGinley Jared J, Friedman Bruce H
Department of Psychology, Towson University, United States.
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, United States.
Int J Psychophysiol. 2017 Aug;118:48-57. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.06.002. Epub 2017 Jun 9.
Research on the autonomic specificity of emotion has spanned decades, yet the findings of this research are still highly debated. Although many studies have explored the autonomic specificity of emotions, few have concurrently explored the influence by which the induction methods themselves have had in directing autonomic change. The current study was conducted to assess whether the methods for emotion elicitation could be meaningfully captured by multivariate pattern classification techniques that have been previously used to explore autonomic specificity of emotion. This aim was achieved by using three separate emotion-elicitation methods to elicit five separate emotions. A sample of 64 college-aged students watched film clips, read imagery scripts, and recalled personal memories for five emotion states. Using multivariate pattern classification analysis, the evidence from the current study lends further support for autonomic specificity of emotion, but also highlights the role that the specific induction technique contributes to autonomic changes that accompany emotions in the laboratory.
关于情绪自主特异性的研究已历经数十年，但该研究的结果仍备受争议。尽管许多研究探讨了情绪的自主特异性，但很少有研究同时探究诱导方法本身对自主变化的影响。本研究旨在评估情绪诱发方法是否能被先前用于探索情绪自主特异性的多变量模式分类技术有意义地捕捉到。通过使用三种不同的情绪诱发方法来诱发五种不同的情绪实现了这一目标。64名大学生观看电影片段、阅读意象脚本并回忆个人记忆以体验五种情绪状态。使用多变量模式分类分析，本研究的证据进一步支持了情绪的自主特异性，但也凸显了特定诱导技术在实验室中对伴随情绪的自主变化所起的作用。
