Affiliative stimuli as primers to prosocial predispositions

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 237-243

  Souza, Gabriela Guerra Leal ^a   Pereira, Mirtes Garcia ^b   Vila, Jaime ^c   Oliveira, Leticia ^b   Volchan, Eliane ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Affiliative; Emotion; Motor predisposition; Prosocial; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857027198     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5209/rev_SJOP.2012.v15.n1.37315     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ashby, F. G., Isen, A. M., & Turken, A. U. (1999). A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition. Psychological Review, 106, 529-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0033-295X.106.3.529
2. Azevedo, T. M., Volchan, E., Imbiriba, L. A., Rodrigues, E. C., Oliveira, J. M., Oliveira, L.... & Vargas, C. D. (2005). A freezing-like posture to pictures of mutilation. Psychophysiology, 42, 255-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00287.x
3. Blakemore, S. J., Bristow, D., Bird, G., Frith, C., & Ward, J. (2005). Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. Brain 128, 1571-1583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh500
4. Bradley, M. M., Codispoti, M., Cuthbert, B. N., & Lang, P. J. (2001). Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. Emotion, 1, 276-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//1528-3542.1.3.276
5. Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1994). Measuring emotion: The self-assessment mannequin and the semantic differential. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 25, 49-59.
6. Brosch, T., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2007). That baby caught my eye... Attention capture by infant faces. Emotion, 7, 685-689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.685
7. Chen, M., & Bargh, J. A. (1999). Consequences of automatic evaluation: Immediate behavioral predispositions to approach or avoid the stimulus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 215-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167299025002007
8. Dreisbach, G. (2006). How positive affect modulates cognitive control: The costs and benefits of reduced maintenance capability. Brain and Cognition, 60, 11-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2005.08.003
9. Duckworth, K. L., Bargh, J. A., Garcia, M., & Chaiken, S. (2002). The automatic evaluation of novel stimuli. Psychological Science, 13, 513-519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00490
10. Dunbar, R. I. (2010). The social role of touch in humans and primates: Behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 260-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.07.001
11. Eder, A. B., & Rothermund, K. (2008). When do motor behaviors (mis) match affective stimuli? An evaluative coding view of approach and avoidance reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 260-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.137.2.262
12. Elliot, A. J. (2008). Approach and avoidance motivation. In A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 3-16). New York, NY: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
13. Facchinetti, L. D., Imbariba, L. A., Azevedo, T. M., Vargas, C. D., & Volchan, E. (2006). Postural modulation induced by pictures depicting prosocial or dangerous contexts. Neuroscience Letters, 410, 52-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2006.09.063
14. Isen, A. M., Daubman, K. A., & Nowicki, G. P. (1987). Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1122-1131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1122
15. Lang, P. J., & Bradley, M. M. (2008). Appetitive and defensive motivation is the substrate of emotion. In A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 51-56). New York, NY: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
16. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1990). Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex. Psychological Review, 97, 377-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.97.3.377
17. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1999). International Affective Picture System (IAPS): Instruction manual and affective ratings. Technical Report A-4. The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
18. Lloyd, D. M. (2009). The space between us: A neurophilosophical framework for the investigation of human interpersonal space. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 33, 297-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.09.007
19. Markman, A. B., & Brendl, C M. (2005). Constraining theories of embodied cognition. Psychological Science, 16, 6-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00772.x
20. Nelson, H., & Geher, G. (2007). Mutual grooming in human dyadic relationships: An ethological perspective. Current Psychology, 26, 121-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-007-9009-3
21. Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(71)90067-4
22. Over, H., & Carpenter, M. (2009). Einghteen-month-old infants show increased helping following priming with affiliation. Psychological Science, 20, 1189-1193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02419.x
23. Pereira, M. G., Volchan, E., de Souza, G. G. L., Oliveira, L., Campagnoli, R., Machado-Pinheiro, W., & Pessoa, L. (2006). Sustained and transient modulation of performance induced by emotional picture viewing. Emotion, 6, 622-634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.6.4.622
24. Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2008). Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions and emotions. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press Inc.
25. Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Time course and task dependence of emotion effects in word processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 28-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/CABN.9.1.28
26. Smith, J. C., Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J (2005). State anxiety and affective physiology: Effects of sustained exposure to affective pictures. Biological Psychology, 69, 247-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.09.001