کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
921260 920763 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Prefrontal asymmetry predicts affect, but not beliefs about affect
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Prefrontal asymmetry predicts affect, but not beliefs about affect
چکیده انگلیسی

Self-reported emotional feelings are easily biased by situational or identity-related beliefs. Such biases vary as a function of memory. Recent memories draw more on veridical felt affective experience whereas distant memories draw more on situational or identity-related biases. For this study, frontal EEG asymmetry was used to predict feeling- versus belief-based self-reports of freshmen year homesickness in college freshmen and sophomores. Relatively greater right frontal EEG asymmetry predicted greater feeling-based, experiential reports of freshman year homesickness, whereas no associations were found between frontal EEG asymmetry and belief-based, retrospective reports of freshman year homesickness. These results support the status of frontal EEG asymmetry as a measure of affective vulnerability and suggest that links between frontal EEG asymmetry and self-reported affect are detectable to the extent that self-reports capture current emotional feelings and not situational or identity-related beliefs about what one ought to have felt.


► Biases in self-report have led to controversy in psychophysiological research.
► We compare associations between EEG asymmetry and current versus retrospective affect.
► EEG asymmetry predicts current affect, but not beliefs about affect.
► Implications for interpreting associations are discussed.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biological Psychology - Volume 88, Issue 1, September 2011, Pages 65–71
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