Arousal and valence are separable emotion dimensions rated independently.
Evidence
But to evoke those feelings, it is often necessary to portray sensory details that the reader may have experienced. Simply labeling a character’s emotion as love or hatred will have little effect, for such abstraction operates on a vague, intellectual level, whereas emotion is the body’s physical reaction to information the senses receive. The great Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski, originator of realistic “Method” acting, urged his students to abandon the grand emotive postures of the nineteenth-century stage in favor of emotions evoked by the actor’s recollection of sensory details connected with a personal past trauma. By recalling such details as the tingling of fingertips, the smell of singed hair, and the tensing of calf muscles, an emotion such as anger might naturally be induced within the actor’s body. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 121 (
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There is still controversy over whether people overvalue imminent rewards generally (hyperbolic discounting; see Ainslie 2010; 2012) or only when we are emotionally aroused — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 226 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Affect perception is measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than emotion labels; Debate persists on whether imminent-reward overvaluation is general or arousal-dependent. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 226; Valence perception relies solely on pitch, unaffected by hearing loss or aids (+3 more)
Related
- Debate persists on whether imminent-reward overvaluation is general or arousal-dependent. (similarity 0.80)
- Emotion in speech can be measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than categories (similarity 0.80)
- Affect perception is measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than emotion labels (similarity 0.79)
- Arousal and valence perception recruit distinct acoustic mechanisms (similarity 0.79)
- Arousal and valence perception require separate study designs (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Affect perception is measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than emotion labels
#corroborates(0.95) - Emotion is a bodily sensory response, not an abstract label.
#expands(0.78) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 121 - Debate persists on whether imminent-reward overvaluation is general or arousal-dependent.
#responds-to(0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 226 - Valence perception relies solely on pitch, unaffected by hearing loss or aids
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