TY - JOUR
T1 - Can Feelings "Feel" Wrong?
T2 - Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors
AU - Givon, Ella
AU - Udelsman-Danieli, Gal
AU - Almagor, Ophir
AU - Fekete, Tomer
AU - Shriki, Oren
AU - Meiran, Nachshon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/5/3
Y1 - 2022/5/3
N2 - In popular belief, emotions are regarded as deeply subjective and thus as lacking truth value. Is this reflected at the behavioral or brain level? This work compared counter-normative emotion reports with perceptual-decision errors. Participants (university students; N = 29, 16, 40, and 60 in Experiments 1–4, respectively) were given trials comprising two tasks and were asked to (a) report their pleasant or unpleasant feelings in response to emotion-invoking pictures (emotion report) and (b) indicate the gender of faces (perceptual decision). Focusing on classical error markers, we found that the results of both tasks indicated (a) post-error slowing, (b) speed/accuracy trade-offs, (c) a heavier right tail of the reaction time distribution for errors or counter-normative responses relative to correct or normative responses, and (d) inconclusive evidence for error-related negativity in electroencephalograms. These results suggest that at both the behavioral and the brain levels, the experience of reporting counter-normative emotions is remarkably similar to that accompanying perceptual-decision errors.
AB - In popular belief, emotions are regarded as deeply subjective and thus as lacking truth value. Is this reflected at the behavioral or brain level? This work compared counter-normative emotion reports with perceptual-decision errors. Participants (university students; N = 29, 16, 40, and 60 in Experiments 1–4, respectively) were given trials comprising two tasks and were asked to (a) report their pleasant or unpleasant feelings in response to emotion-invoking pictures (emotion report) and (b) indicate the gender of faces (perceptual decision). Focusing on classical error markers, we found that the results of both tasks indicated (a) post-error slowing, (b) speed/accuracy trade-offs, (c) a heavier right tail of the reaction time distribution for errors or counter-normative responses relative to correct or normative responses, and (d) inconclusive evidence for error-related negativity in electroencephalograms. These results suggest that at both the behavioral and the brain levels, the experience of reporting counter-normative emotions is remarkably similar to that accompanying perceptual-decision errors.
KW - emotional feelings
KW - error-related negativity
KW - open materials
KW - post-error slowing
KW - preregistered
KW - reaction time distribution
KW - speed/accuracy trade-off
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129557966&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/09567976211063915
DO - 10.1177/09567976211063915
M3 - Article
C2 - 35503295
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 33
SP - 948
EP - 956
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 6
ER -