For example, in response to an emotional stimulus, a person may show covarying changes in heart rate (physiological response system), facial expressions (behavioral response system), and subjective experience of emotion (experiential response system).
Starting with Darwin (1872), theorists have argued that emotions involve coherent responses across experiential, physiological, and behavioral response systems ( Davidson, 1992 Ekman, 1977, 1992 Lazarus, 1991 Levenson, 1994 Plutchik, 1980 Tomkins, 1962). These findings provide support for the idea that greater emotion coherence promotes well-being and also shed light on factors that are associated with the magnitude of coherence. However, coherence was not associated with reappraisal. Coherence was highest during the most emotionally intense film and among individuals who reported lower expressive suppression. Results indicated that individuals with greater coherence reported greater well-being.
#Expressive coherence examples in film skin#
Time-lagged cross-correlations were used to calculate within-participant coherence between intensity of emotional experience (ranging from neutral to very negative or very positive) and physiology (composite of cardiac inter-beat interval, skin conductance, ear pulse transit time, finger pulse transit time and amplitude, systolic and diastolic blood pressure).
During the films, participants continuously rated their emotional experience using a rating dial, and their autonomic physiological responses were recorded.
#Expressive coherence examples in film series#
They then watched a series of emotionally evocative film clips designed to elicit positive and negative emotion. Participants ( N=63) completed self-report measures of well-being, expressive suppression, and cognitive reappraisal. We also examined factors that may predict the magnitude of coherence such as emotion intensity, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression. The current study examined whether individuals with greater coherence between physiology and subjective experience of emotion report greater well-being. Greater response system coherence has been theorized to promote well-being yet, very little research has tested this assumption. Emotion theorists have characterized emotions as involving coherent responding across various emotion response systems (e.g., covariation of subjective experience and physiology).
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