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Specifying autobiographical information alters emotion activation, but not the way you think it does…
Pierre PhilippotUniversité de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
www.ecsa.ucl.ac.be/personnel/philippot/
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Theoretical background - I
Personal memories comprise differents types of information that are stored separatly– Emotional information (non declarative)– Contextual and factual information
(declarative)
(Brewin, 2001; Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Leventhal, 1984; Philippot et al., 2003; Teasdale & Barnard, 1993)
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Theoretical background - II
Personal memories can be reactivated through – Direct retrieval– Generative retrieval
(Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000)
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Theoretical background - III
Activation of emotional information arouses the corresponding emotional state.
Emotional arousal might disrupt high level cognitive processes such as those required for AM generative retrieval:– Yerkes-Dodson law– Automatic attentional biases– Automatic conceptual priming
Hypothesis : high level cognitive processes inhibit emotional arousal.
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Theoretical background – IV
It follows from the above rationale that volontarily specifying AM should inhibit emotional arousal.
However, there is a commonly shared belief that the opposite is true.
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Study 1Philippot, Douilliez & Ramon, 2003
Naive theories regarding how specifying of AM might alter emotion
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Hypothesis
Do people hold the naive theory that: « specifying AM leads to an increase in emotional arousal »?
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Study 1:Method
Participants– 94 students (57 women and 37 men), aged between 18 and 32.
Procedure– Participants were asked :
1. to imagine that they were thinking either in a specific or in a general way for 10 minutes about a positive and a negative AM.
2. to report how the intensity of their emotional feeling would evolve, minute after minute on a ten point scale.
3. to qualify the emotional profile of the event on the Differential Emotion Scale (DES).
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Figure 1.Evolution of Emotional Intensity as a Function of Mode of Thinking about Worries
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Study 2Philippot & Verhasselt, 2002
Naive theories regarding
how specifying of AM might alter emotion:
Comparison of normal versus clinical samples
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Hypothesis
Do people suffering from anxiety disorders hold a different naïve theory than people exempt from any emotional disorder, especially for negative emotion?
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Study 2:Method
Participants– 18 out-patients (10 women and 8 men) diagnosed with an anxiety
disorder according to the DSM IV criteria (APA, 1994) aged between 20 and 56 (Mean: 42.94, S.D.: 10.02).
– A control sample of 26 individuals (14 women and 12 men), aged between 22 and 55 (Mean: 39.08, S.D.: 11.29).
Procedure– Participants were asked :
1. to imagine that they were thinking for 10 minutes about a positive and a negative personal event.
2. to report how the intensity of their emotional feeling would evolve, minute after minute on a ten point scale.
3. to qualify the emotional profile of the event on the Differential Emotion Scale (DES).
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Study 2:Results
Manipulation check :– Anxious patients and controls did not differ regarding
the emotional profile and intensity of the events considered.
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Figure 1.Evolution of Emotional Intensity as a Function of Diagnostic Status and Event Valence
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Study 3Philippot, Schaefer, & Herbette, In press, Emotion
General versus Specific AM priming during emotion induction
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Method
Participants : 45 students
Diary for 12 consecutive days– the strongest negative event and an average
intensity negative event– description of the event, emotional labelling,
and intensity rating
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Method II
Procedure:– Imagery training
– AM recollection
– Distraction task
– Relaxation (60”)
– Priming (60”)
– Re-experience in imagery (20”)
• S-ABM Condition : priming of S-AM
• G-ABM Condition : priming of G-AM
• Control Condition : semantic task
– Intensity rating of emotion felt during imagery
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Study 3: Results
3 (Condition) x 2 (Time) Anova– Main effect of Time,
F(1,44)=10.70, p <.005
– Main effect of Condition, F(2,88)=3.57, p <.05
– Interaction,F(2,88)=5.12, p <.01
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ControlS-AMG-AM
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Study 4Schaefer, Collette, Philippot, et al, (2003). NeuroImage, 18, 938-949.
Schematic vs. propositional processing of emotional information during induction.
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Method- IDesign
– Schematic vs. propositional processing• Schematic: mentally repeating metaphoric sentences• Propositional: mentally repeating specific appraisals
– Emotion (Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Affection, Neutral)
Measures– Feeling state quality (DES) & intensity– Heart Rate & Skin Conductance– H2
150-PET camera
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Method- IISubjects
– 21 right-handed male volunteers
Procedure– Prior training session– Experimental session
• 10 standardized scripts, in a random order
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Method- III
Trial
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Measures Subj.Int. Physio. PET
Relaxation Imagery
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Results: Subjective Feeling Intensity
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PropositionalCondition:F(1, 20)=161.73, p<.0001
Emotion:F(4, 80)=80.97, p<.0001
Condition X Emotion:F(4, 80)=45.08, p<.0001
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Results: Heart Rate Changes
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Condition:F(1, 18)=4.63, p<.05
Emotion:F(4, 72)=5.28, p<.001
Condition X Emotion:F(4, 72)=4.21, p<.004
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Schematic versus Propositional mode of processing
Ventromedial prefontal cortex
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Propositional versus Schematic mode of processing
Anterolateral prefontal cortex
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Etude 5Philippot, Baeyens & Burgos, 2002
Specific versus General Processing of Anxious Predictions
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Method
Sixty students were placed in a state of anxious apprehension.
They were randomly distributed in three conditions– specific processing of anxious information– general processing of anxious information– no processing.
Participants filled in the DES and the STAI before and after the manipulation
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ControlGeneralSpecific
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Interaction: F(2,57)=28.68, p<.000, 2= .45
Anxiety Evolution as a Function of Experimental Condition
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Study6Philippot, Douilliez & Ramon, 2003
Reappraisal versus Specific versus General Processing of Anxious Predictions
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Method
Sixty-nine students were placed in a state of anxious apprehension.
They were randomly distributed in three conditions– Specification of the worst fears in the situation– Positive reappraisal of the situation. – General processing of anxious information
Participants filled in the STAI before and after the manipulation
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Interaction: F(2,66)=3.78, p<.03, 2= .10
Anxiety Evolution as a Function of Experimental Condition
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Conclusions
People share a naive theory stating that specifying personal information increases emotional arousal
However, manipulating the processing of personal information shows that the opposite is true– For present as well as for past (AM) information– With many different operationalizations of this manipulation
This gap between naive theory and empirical evidence might constitute a maintenance factor for emotional disorders.
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Subjective Feeling Intensity as a Function of Emotion and Cognitive Processing condition
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