Beyond valence: The differential effect of masked anger and sadness stimuli on effort-related cardiac response

Freydefont, Laure; Gendolla, Guido H.E.; Silvestrini, Nicolas

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01340.x

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Title		Beyond valence: The differential effect of masked anger and sadness stimuli on effort-related cardiac response
Authors		Freydefont, Laure Gendolla, Guido H.E. Silvestrini, Nicolas
Published in		Psychophysiology. 2012, vol. 49, no. 5, p. 665-671
Abstract		This experiment investigated the moderating effect of masked anger versus sadness primes on objective task difficulty's impact on effort-related cardiovascular response. Cardiovascular measures (ICG and blood pressure) were assessed during a habituation period and an easy versus difficult short-term memory task during which participants were exposed to masked emotional facial expressions. As expected, sadness primes led to stronger cardiac preejection period (PEP) responses than anger primes when the task was easy. When the task was difficult, we observed the reversed pattern. Here, anger primes led to stronger PEP reactivity than sadness primes. Heart rate responses described the corresponding pattern. The results demonstrate that masked anger and sadness primes have different effects on cardiac response in easy and difficult tasks. The effect of anger primes resembles the facilitating effect of happiness primes observed in previous studies.
Keywords		Implicit affect priming — Anger — Effort — Cardiovascular reactivity — Active coping
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01340.x
Full text		Article (Published version) (317 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE
Structures		Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives
Research groups		Affective sciences Geneva Motivation Lab
Project		Swiss National Science Foundation: SNF 100014-131760/1)
Citation (ISO format)		FREYDEFONT, Laure, GENDOLLA, Guido H.E., SILVESTRINI, Nicolas. Beyond valence: The differential effect of masked anger and sadness stimuli on effort-related cardiac response. In: Psychophysiology, 2012, vol. 49, n° 5, p. 665-671. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01340.x https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:34125