Effects of Approach–Avoidance Swiping Interactions on the Valence Estimation Using Tablet AAT
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- H1:
- The touchscreen tablet AAT is effective in measuring approach–avoidance behavior in the appraisal of emotion.
- H2:
- Minimum body movements (such as finger movements) influence subjects’ valence processing against embodied cognition. This means that the direct swiping movements with the pictures is relevant to influence the subjects’ valence estimation towards the pictures, an AACE is expected. The compatibility state (i.e., swiping positive pictures closer and negative pictures away) results in a relatively more positive change in the valence estimations.
- H3:
- The valence estimation is more sensitive to the negative valence stimuli with higher affective arousal. The stimuli with different levels of arousal have different effects on the affective cognition of the subjects’ approach–avoidance behaviors.
2. Martials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Materials and Apparatus
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Empirical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Results on AACE
3.2. Results on the Effect of Arousal
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Positive Valence | Negative Valence | |||
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Valence Scores | Arousal Scores | Valence Scores | Arousal Scores | |
High arousal | 6.00 (0.23) | 5.88 (0.14) | 2.59 (0.55) | 5.86 (0.09) |
Low arousal | 5.88 (0.19) | 4.28 (0.18) | 2.84 (0.18) | 4.19 (0.98) |
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Wang, X.; Hsu, Y.; Xu, R. Effects of Approach–Avoidance Swiping Interactions on the Valence Estimation Using Tablet AAT. Electronics 2022, 11, 4098. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244098
Wang X, Hsu Y, Xu R. Effects of Approach–Avoidance Swiping Interactions on the Valence Estimation Using Tablet AAT. Electronics. 2022; 11(24):4098. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244098
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Xinyan, Yen Hsu, and Rui Xu. 2022. "Effects of Approach–Avoidance Swiping Interactions on the Valence Estimation Using Tablet AAT" Electronics 11, no. 24: 4098. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244098
APA StyleWang, X., Hsu, Y., & Xu, R. (2022). Effects of Approach–Avoidance Swiping Interactions on the Valence Estimation Using Tablet AAT. Electronics, 11(24), 4098. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244098