February 1, 1974Perceptual and Motor Skills
The Basic Emotional Impact of Environments
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Implication
Randomized trial assesses emotional responses to stimuli in various environments, indicating key dimensions of perception.
Key Points
- To investigate the basic emotional responses elicited by environmental stimuli, independent of sensory modalities.
- Developed simple self-report measures using questionnaire studies.
- Participants described various situations with semantic differential type scales.
- Analyzed responses based on emotional dimensions of evaluation, activity, and potency.
- Identified emotional responses categorized as pleasure, arousal, and dominance.
- Demonstrated consistent patterns in human judgments across diverse stimuli.
- Highlighted significant intermodality associations in emotional reactions.
Cite This Study
Mehrabian et al. (1974) studied this question.