Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy
Responding to pro-social cues plays an important adaptive role in humans. Our aims were (i) to create a catalog of bonding and matched-control pictures to compare the emotional reports of valence and arousal with the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) pictures; (ii) to verify sex influenc...
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| author | Heraldo D. Silva Rafaela R. Campagnoli Rafaela R. Campagnoli Bruna Eugênia F. Mota Cássia Regina V. Araújo Roberta Sônia R. Álvares Izabela Mocaiber Vanessa Rocha-Rego Eliane Volchan Gabriela G. L. Souza |
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| description | Responding to pro-social cues plays an important adaptive role in humans. Our aims were (i) to create a catalog of bonding and matched-control pictures to compare the emotional reports of valence and arousal with the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) pictures; (ii) to verify sex influence on the valence and arousal of bonding and matched-control pictures; (iii) to investigate if empathy and loneliness traits exert a specific influence on emotional reports for the bonding pictures. To provide a finer tool for social interaction studies, the present work defined two new sets of pictures consisting of “interacting dyads” (Bonding: N = 70) and matched controls “non-interacting dyads” (Controls: N = 70). The dyads could be either a child and an adult, or two children. Participants (N = 283, 182 women) were divided in 10 groups for the experimental sessions. The task was to rate the hedonic valence and emotional arousal of bonding and controls; and of pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures from the IAPS. Effects of social-related traits, empathy and loneliness, on affective ratings were tested. Participants rated bonding pictures as more pleasant and arousing than control ones. Ratings did not differentiate bonding from IAPS pleasant pictures. Control pictures showed lower ratings than pleasant but higher ratings than neutral IAPS pictures. Women rated bonding and control pictures as more positive than men. There was no sex difference for arousal ratings. High empathic participants rated bonding and control pictures higher than low empathic participants. Also, they rated pleasant IAPS pictures more positive and arousing; and unpleasant pictures more negative and arousing than the less empathic ones. Loneliness trait, on the other hand, affected very specifically the ratings of bonding pictures; lonelier participants rated them less pleasant and less arousing than less lonely. Loneliness trait did not modulate ratings of other categories. In conclusion, high empathy seems related to emotional strength in general, while high loneliness seems to weaken the engagement in social interaction cues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8475da88fee4382bb713f7c55653ca02022-12-21T23:06:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-07-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.01136258046Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to EmpathyHeraldo D. Silva0Rafaela R. Campagnoli1Rafaela R. Campagnoli2Bruna Eugênia F. Mota3Cássia Regina V. Araújo4Roberta Sônia R. Álvares5Izabela Mocaiber6Vanessa Rocha-Rego7Eliane Volchan8Gabriela G. L. Souza9Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro PretoOuro Preto, BrazilInstitute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, BrazilCenter for the Study of Emotion & Attention, University of Florida, GainesvilleFL, United StatesDepartment of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro PretoOuro Preto, BrazilDepartment of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro PretoOuro Preto, BrazilDepartment of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro PretoOuro Preto, BrazilDepartment of Natural Sciences, Institute of Humanities and Health, Federal Fluminense UniversityRio das Ostras, BrazilInstitute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, BrazilInstitute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, BrazilDepartment of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro PretoOuro Preto, BrazilResponding to pro-social cues plays an important adaptive role in humans. Our aims were (i) to create a catalog of bonding and matched-control pictures to compare the emotional reports of valence and arousal with the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) pictures; (ii) to verify sex influence on the valence and arousal of bonding and matched-control pictures; (iii) to investigate if empathy and loneliness traits exert a specific influence on emotional reports for the bonding pictures. To provide a finer tool for social interaction studies, the present work defined two new sets of pictures consisting of “interacting dyads” (Bonding: N = 70) and matched controls “non-interacting dyads” (Controls: N = 70). The dyads could be either a child and an adult, or two children. Participants (N = 283, 182 women) were divided in 10 groups for the experimental sessions. The task was to rate the hedonic valence and emotional arousal of bonding and controls; and of pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures from the IAPS. Effects of social-related traits, empathy and loneliness, on affective ratings were tested. Participants rated bonding pictures as more pleasant and arousing than control ones. Ratings did not differentiate bonding from IAPS pleasant pictures. Control pictures showed lower ratings than pleasant but higher ratings than neutral IAPS pictures. Women rated bonding and control pictures as more positive than men. There was no sex difference for arousal ratings. High empathic participants rated bonding and control pictures higher than low empathic participants. Also, they rated pleasant IAPS pictures more positive and arousing; and unpleasant pictures more negative and arousing than the less empathic ones. Loneliness trait, on the other hand, affected very specifically the ratings of bonding pictures; lonelier participants rated them less pleasant and less arousing than less lonely. Loneliness trait did not modulate ratings of other categories. In conclusion, high empathy seems related to emotional strength in general, while high loneliness seems to weaken the engagement in social interaction cues.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01136/fullsocial interactionbondingarousalvalenceIAPSempathy |
| spellingShingle | Heraldo D. Silva Rafaela R. Campagnoli Rafaela R. Campagnoli Bruna Eugênia F. Mota Cássia Regina V. Araújo Roberta Sônia R. Álvares Izabela Mocaiber Vanessa Rocha-Rego Eliane Volchan Gabriela G. L. Souza Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy Frontiers in Psychology social interaction bonding arousal valence IAPS empathy |
| title | Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy |
| title_full | Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy |
| title_fullStr | Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy |
| title_short | Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy |
| title_sort | bonding pictures affective ratings are specifically associated to loneliness but not to empathy |
| topic | social interaction bonding arousal valence IAPS empathy |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01136/full |
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