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The temporal relation between changes in response synchronicity and emotion Host Publication: Annual Meeting of the Psychological Association for Science Authors: A. Schippers, P. Kuppens, H. Sahli, E. Kerckhofs and M. Vandekerckhove Publication Date: May. 2015
Abstract: For over a century it has been suggested that synchronicity between physiology, behavior and subjective experience plays an important role in the experience of emotion. This notion of ‘response synchronicity’ or ‘emotion coherence’ has become a defining feature of emotion for many scholars. However, despite the importance of the concept of emotion coherence in emotion theory, the empirical evidence in support of it has been weaker than expected, with studies often finding either less coherence than theoretically expected or no coherence at all. The past ten years there has been a resurging interest in empirical investigations of response coherence. In the field of response coherence an almost plethoric amount of analytical approaches have been employed, including cross-correlation, network models and principle component analysis. Despite these efforts there is still little consensus on the nature of the relation between response coherence and emotion. We have investigated the temporal dynamics of response synchronicity using PCA, and link the changes in response synchronicity to specific emotion inducing events within film stimuli. External Link.
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