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A structural model of emotions of cognitive dissonances
Fecha
2012Registro en:
NEURAL NETWORKS, OXFORD, v. 32, n. 1, Special Issue, supl. 4, Part 1-2, pp. 57-64, AUG, 2012
0893-6080
10.1016/j.neunet.2012.04.007
Autor
Fontanari, Jose Fernando
Bonniot-Cabanac, Marie-Claude
Cabanac, Michel
Perlovsky, Leonid I.
Institución
Resumen
Cognitive dissonance is the stress that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts simultaneously in the mind, usually arising when people are asked to choose between two detrimental or two beneficial options. In view of the well-established role of emotions in decision making, here we investigate whether the conventional structural models used to represent the relationships among basic emotions, such as the Circumplex model of affect, can describe the emotions of cognitive dissonance as well. We presented a questionnaire to 34 anonymous participants, where each question described a decision to be made among two conflicting motivations and asked the participants to rate analogically the pleasantness and the intensity of the experienced emotion. We found that the results were compatible with the predictions of the Circumplex model for basic emotions. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.