- Human Evolution and Cognition Research Group (http:// www.evocog.org)
Department of Psychology
Edif. Guillem Cifre de Colonya
University of the Balearic Islands
Campus UIB (07122) Palma (Illes Balears) SPAIN - +34 971 172573
Jaume Rossello-Mir
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Psychology, Faculty Member
- Emotion, Moral Judgment, Experimental Aesthetics, Social Cognition, Visual attention, Neuroaesthetics, and 19 moreAffective Priming, Cognition and Emotion, Moral Decision Making, Facial expression, Implicit measures, Psychology, Facial Recognition, Affect & Arousal, Rare diseases, Aesthetics, Visual perception, Attention, Affect/Emotion, Auditory Perception, Selective Attention, Attention (Psychology), Extended Mind, Embodied Cognition, and Decision-Makingedit
- JAUME ROSSELLÓ-MIR is currently Professor at the Department of Psychology (University of the Balearic Islands, UIB). ... moreJAUME ROSSELLÓ-MIR is currently Professor at the Department of Psychology (University of the Balearic Islands, UIB). After obtaining his psychologist degree in 1988, he spent a formative period as a fellow research at the University of Bologna (Italy). Afterwards, he moved to the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. from the UIB (2001). His dissertation was awarded with special distinction by the University of the Balearic Islands and with a First National Research Award by the City Council of Barcelona.
He has published extensively in national and international journals. He has written several books and chapters related with the topics of visual attention, perception, motivation and emotion and has been coeditor of a handbook on the study of attention and perception (Alianza Editorial, 1999).
Dr. Rosselló-Mir is a member of the staff of the Evolution and Human Cognition Group (UIB-CSIC) since 2001. Nowadays, his research broadly focuses on affective processing and their influence on higher order cognition (preferences, judgment, decision making) and, most especially, on the study of aesthetic preferences. At this time, he is actively participating in several projects dealing with the effects of affective priming on moral judgements, aesthetic preferences and decision making (IP in some of them). He is also interested in the applied aspects of implicit measures and in the effects of emotional factors on cognitive performance (human factors, affective ergonomics).
His research has been recognized by the Spanish Government with 4 periods (6 years each) reaching international excellence (4 sexenios ANECA).edit - Antonio Caparrós Benedicto, Jordi Pich i Solé, Luis Montoro, Santiago Estaún Ferrer, Camilo J- Cela-Condeedit
Judgments of liking and beauty appear to be expressions of a common hedonic state, but they differ in how they engage cognitive processes. We hypothesised that beauty judgments place greater demands on limited executive resources than... more
Judgments of liking and beauty appear to be expressions of a common hedonic state, but they differ in how they engage cognitive processes. We hypothesised that beauty judgments place greater demands on limited executive resources than judgments of liking. We tested this hypothesis by asking two groups of participants to judge works of visual art for their beauty or liking while having to remember the location of 1, 3, or 5 dots in a 4 by 4 matrix. We also examined the effect of individual differences in working memory capacity. Our results show that holding information about the location of the dots in working memory delayed judgments of beauty but not of liking. Also, the greater participants’ working memory capacity, the faster they completed the working memory task when judging liking, but not when judging beauty. Our study provides evidence that judging beauty draws more on working memory resources than judging liking.
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... Ayuda; Cambiar idioma Idioma Català. Cambiar. La evaluación de la atención en elexamen psicotécnico de conductores: una perspectiva histórica. ...
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... Influencia de los niveles de activación endógena en la selectividad atencional. Autores: JaumeRosselló Mir; Localización: Manual de prácticas de percepción y atención / coord. por José María Arana Martínez, Antonio Sánchez Cabaco,... more
... Influencia de los niveles de activación endógena en la selectividad atencional. Autores: JaumeRosselló Mir; Localización: Manual de prácticas de percepción y atención / coord. por José María Arana Martínez, Antonio Sánchez Cabaco, 1997, ISBN 84-8196-087-X , págs. ...
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... Ayuda; Cambiar idioma Idioma Català. Cambiar. El estudio ontogénico de laselectividad atencional desde los inicios de la psicología cognitiva. ...
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... Introducción a la psicología del sentimiento: motivación y emoción. Información General. Autores:Jaume Rosselló Mir; Editores: Universitat de les Illes Balears; Año de publicación: 1996; País: España; Idioma: Catalán; ISBN :... more
... Introducción a la psicología del sentimiento: motivación y emoción. Información General. Autores:Jaume Rosselló Mir; Editores: Universitat de les Illes Balears; Año de publicación: 1996; País: España; Idioma: Catalán; ISBN : 84-7632-285-2. Otros catálogos. ...
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... | Ayuda. 1990: La nova poesia a Mallorca. Autores: Jaume Rosselló; Localización: Lluc: revista de cultura i d'idees, ISSN 0211-092X, Nº. 755, 1990 , pags. 7-10. © 2001-2011 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los... more
... | Ayuda. 1990: La nova poesia a Mallorca. Autores: Jaume Rosselló; Localización: Lluc: revista de cultura i d'idees, ISSN 0211-092X, Nº. 755, 1990 , pags. 7-10. © 2001-2011 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. XHTML 1.0; UTF‑8.
RESUMEN La propia naturaleza de la atención, tan diversa, ha contribuído a que, a lo largo de la historia del pensamiento, sus estudiosos la hayan concebido de forma muy distinta. Aún hoy encontramos reminiscencias de la controversia... more
RESUMEN La propia naturaleza de la atención, tan diversa, ha contribuído a que, a lo largo de la historia del pensamiento, sus estudiosos la hayan concebido de forma muy distinta. Aún hoy encontramos reminiscencias de la controversia generada a raíz de esa heterogeneidad de planteamientos. En este trabajo proponemos una sistematización de la evolución histórica de las variedades atencionales, articulando el discurso a partir de dos ejes principales. El primero se basa en las principales formas de entender la atención a lo largo de la historia: las que la concebían como volición, como agente unificador de la conciencia, como claridad cognoscitiva, como proceso selectivo, como disposición o prepercepción, como acto motor o como apercepción. Cada alternativa conceptual la exponemos, a su vez, siguiendo un segundo eje, que propone tres grandes etapas históricas en el estudio atencional: la Época Fenomenológica (desde la Grecia Clásica hasta principios del siglo XVIII), caracterizada por...
Las herramientas provenientes de la psicología cognitiva han encontrado una vía de aplicación prometedora en el ámbito del branding y el comportamiento del consumidor. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo establecer sus posibles... more
Las herramientas provenientes de la psicología cognitiva han encontrado una vía de aplicación prometedora en el ámbito del branding y el comportamiento del consumidor. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo establecer sus posibles alcances. Con este fin, se realiza una revisión de los hallazgos más relevantes en cognición implícita relacionados a los procesos de evaluación y toma de decisiones. Asimismo, se discuten las posibles implicaciones de estos estudios para la investigación en publicidad subliminal y medidas implícitas de percepción de marca. implicit
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... Antonio J. Rojas, Juan S. Fernández y Cristino Pérez ... Pri-mero, aunque no es la única referencia en castellano (véase Gar-cía-Cueto, 1996; Hambleton, Slater, Narayanan y Setiadi, 1996; López-Pina, Ato, Sánchez-Meca y Velandrino,... more
... Antonio J. Rojas, Juan S. Fernández y Cristino Pérez ... Pri-mero, aunque no es la única referencia en castellano (véase Gar-cía-Cueto, 1996; Hambleton, Slater, Narayanan y Setiadi, 1996; López-Pina, Ato, Sánchez-Meca y Velandrino, 1990; Olea y Pon-soda, 1996 y, sobre ...
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Few studies have addressed attitudes towards violence in offender populations by using implicit measures. The aim of this study is to test whether implicit attitudes towards two types of violence (physical and relational) differ between... more
Few studies have addressed attitudes towards violence in offender populations by using implicit measures. The aim of this study is to test whether implicit attitudes towards two types of violence (physical and relational) differ between two groups of adolescent offenders: one group with conduct disorder (CD; n=36) and the other group without this condition (No-CD; n=26). We found that adolescent offenders with CD evidenced less negative implicit attitudes towards physical violence than the No-CD group. No differences between groups were observed in the case of relational violence. Our results suggest that CD modulates implicit attitudes towards violence in adolescent offenders, and that the influence of CD is stronger in the case of physical rather than relational acts of violence. Further information:
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517739287
First Published November 2, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517739287
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We postulate that humans’ preference for curvature is an expression of a natural propensity for aesthetics, understood as a set of perceptual, cognitive, and affective abilities and biases that orient humans toward the sort of sensory... more
We postulate that humans’ preference for curvature is an expression of a natural propensity for aesthetics, understood as a set of perceptual, cognitive, and affective abilities and biases that orient humans toward the sort of sensory features that are used to convey culturally relevant meanings. Here we investigate whether preference for curved contours, observed previously in Western large-scale societies, is also present in 2 small-scale societies relatively uninfluenced by Western culture. We asked participants from Oaxaca (Mexico) and Bawku (Ghana), and also from Mallorca (Spain), to perform a 2-alternative, forced-choice task consisting in choosing between photographs of curved and sharp-angled versions of the same real objects presented for 80 milliseconds. The task required minimal instructions, aiming to avoid confounds arising from translations. Our results show that participants in each of the 3 countries chose the curved-contour alternative significantly more often than the sharp-angled one (Spain: .59; Mexico: .55; Ghana: .58) and that these proportions did not differ significantly. We conclude that preference for curved-contour objects is common across cultures and conjecture that it is a constituent of a natural propensity for aesthetics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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Abstract El Laboratori Virtual de Psicologia Bàsica (LVPB) és una eina que pretén aprofitar les noves tecnologies per donar un nou enfocament al procés d’aprenentatge dels processos psicològics bàsics. Amb el LVPB s’acompanya a... more
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El Laboratori Virtual de Psicologia Bàsica (LVPB) és una eina que pretén aprofitar les noves tecnologies per donar un nou enfocament al procés d’aprenentatge dels processos psicològics bàsics. Amb el LVPB s’acompanya a l’estudiant en un recorregut a través d’experiments que s’han convertit en clàssics de la Psicologia Cognitiva amb l’objectiu d’assolir coneixements relacionats amb els processos cognitius a partir de la pròpia experiència. La plataforma conté experiments provinents de l’estudi de l’atenció, l’emoció, el llenguatge, la memòria, la motivació, el pensament i la percepció. The Virtual Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (LVPB) is a tool that tries to takeadvantage of the new technologies in order to give a new approach to the learning process of the psychological basic processes. In the LVPB the student is accompanied in a tour across several experiments with the aim of achieving knowledge related to the cognitive processes from his/her own experience. The platform contains experiments from the study of attention, emotion, language, memory, motivation, thinking and perception
El Laboratori Virtual de Psicologia Bàsica (LVPB) és una eina que pretén aprofitar les noves tecnologies per donar un nou enfocament al procés d’aprenentatge dels processos psicològics bàsics. Amb el LVPB s’acompanya a l’estudiant en un recorregut a través d’experiments que s’han convertit en clàssics de la Psicologia Cognitiva amb l’objectiu d’assolir coneixements relacionats amb els processos cognitius a partir de la pròpia experiència. La plataforma conté experiments provinents de l’estudi de l’atenció, l’emoció, el llenguatge, la memòria, la motivació, el pensament i la percepció. The Virtual Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (LVPB) is a tool that tries to takeadvantage of the new technologies in order to give a new approach to the learning process of the psychological basic processes. In the LVPB the student is accompanied in a tour across several experiments with the aim of achieving knowledge related to the cognitive processes from his/her own experience. The platform contains experiments from the study of attention, emotion, language, memory, motivation, thinking and perception
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Previous research has identified a set of core factors that influence moral judgments. The present study addresses the interplay between moral judgments and four factors: (a) incidental affects, (b) sociocultural context, (c) type of... more
Previous research has identified a set of core factors that influence moral judgments. The present study addresses the interplay between moral judgments and four factors: (a) incidental affects, (b) sociocultural context, (c) type of dilemma, and (d) participant’s sex. We asked participants in two different countries (Colombia and Spain) to judge the acceptability of actions in response to personal and impersonal moral dilemmas. Before each dilemma an affective prime (erotic, pleasant or neutral pictures) was presented suboptimally. Our results show that: a) relative to neutral priming, erotic primes increase the acceptance of harm for a greater good (i.e. more utilitarian judgments), b) relative to Colombians, Spanish participants rated causing harm as less acceptable, c) relative to impersonal dilemmas, personal dilemmas reduced the acceptance of harm, and d) relative to men, women were less likely to consider harm acceptable. Our results are congruent with findings showing that sex is a crucial factor in moral cognition, and they extend previous research by showing the interaction between culture and incidental factors in the making of moral judgments.
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Emotions in response to art and aesthetic qualities are fundamentally variable and situated. Research has shown that they are profoundly shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, they vary substantially between and within individuals, and... more
Emotions in response to art and aesthetic qualities are fundamentally variable and situated. Research has shown that they are profoundly shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, they vary substantially between and within individuals, and they are highly susceptible to semantic framing and context. Psychological constructionist models of emotion adequately account for these findings. From this perspective, people experience emotions in response to artworks and aesthetic features when, using knowledge stored from past experience, they assign meaning to their inner states, both sensory (related to the perception of the artistic or aesthetic object) and affective (especially their bodily sensations of pleasure-displeasure and arousal). Situational or contextual features contribute to give meaning—commonly of personal, societal or cultural relevance—to these states. The construction of these emotional experiences relies on domain-general psychological processes, which are not specific to any category of emotions, or even to emotions themselves. There is nothing unique about emotions elicited by art and aesthetics, except that they are constructed from culturally-specific artistic or aesthetic meanings, concepts, and prescriptions, and often in specific places (e.g. museums) or situations (e.g. ceremonies). Thus, emotions in response to art and aesthetics—human emotions in general—are situated, owing to the crucial role of context in their origination, and variable, owing to the myriad possible combinations of the components intervening in their construction. At a neurobiological level, there seems to be no specific core (or a dedicated neural circuitry) for each particular class of emotions. In fact, recent approaches suggest that cognition emerges from dynamic configurations of transient functional connections among distributed brain regions, and across multiple temporal scales.
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Emotions in response to art and aesthetic qualities are fundamentally variable and situated. Research has shown that they are profoundly shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, they vary substantially between and within individuals, and... more
Emotions in response to art and aesthetic qualities are fundamentally variable and situated. Research has shown that they are profoundly shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, they vary substantially between and within individuals, and they are highly susceptible to semantic framing and context. Psychological constructionist models of emotion adequately
account for these findings. From this perspective, people experience emotions in response to artworks and aesthetic features when, using knowledge stored from past experience, they assign meaning to their inner states, both sensory (related to the perception of the artistic or aesthetic object) and affective (especially their bodily sensations of pleasure-displeasure and arousal). Situational or contextual features contribute to give meaning—commonly of personal, societal or
cultural relevance—to these states. The construction of these emotional experiences relies on domain-general psychological processes, which are not specific to any category of emotions, or even to emotions themselves. There is nothing unique about emotions elicited by art and aesthetics, except that they are constructed from culturally-specific artistic or aesthetic meanings, concepts, and prescriptions, and often in specific places (e.g. museums) or situations (e.g. ceremonies). Thus, emotions in response to art and aesthetics—human emotions in general—are situated, owing to the crucial role of context in their origination, and variable, owing to the myriad possible combinations of the components intervening in their construction. At a neurobiological level, there seems to be no specific core (or a dedicated neural circuitry) for each particular class of emotions. In fact, recent approaches suggest that cognition emerges from dynamic configurations of transient functional connections among distributed brain regions, and across multiple temporal scales.
account for these findings. From this perspective, people experience emotions in response to artworks and aesthetic features when, using knowledge stored from past experience, they assign meaning to their inner states, both sensory (related to the perception of the artistic or aesthetic object) and affective (especially their bodily sensations of pleasure-displeasure and arousal). Situational or contextual features contribute to give meaning—commonly of personal, societal or
cultural relevance—to these states. The construction of these emotional experiences relies on domain-general psychological processes, which are not specific to any category of emotions, or even to emotions themselves. There is nothing unique about emotions elicited by art and aesthetics, except that they are constructed from culturally-specific artistic or aesthetic meanings, concepts, and prescriptions, and often in specific places (e.g. museums) or situations (e.g. ceremonies). Thus, emotions in response to art and aesthetics—human emotions in general—are situated, owing to the crucial role of context in their origination, and variable, owing to the myriad possible combinations of the components intervening in their construction. At a neurobiological level, there seems to be no specific core (or a dedicated neural circuitry) for each particular class of emotions. In fact, recent approaches suggest that cognition emerges from dynamic configurations of transient functional connections among distributed brain regions, and across multiple temporal scales.
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Visual aesthetic perception (‘‘aesthetics’’) or the capacity to visually perceive a particular attribute added to other features of objects,such as form, color, and movement, was fixed during human evolutionary lineage as a trait not... more
Visual aesthetic perception (‘‘aesthetics’’) or the capacity to visually perceive a particular attribute added to other features of objects,such as form, color, and movement, was fixed during human evolutionary lineage as a trait not shared with any great ape.Although prefrontal brain expansion is mentioned as responsible for the appearance of such human trait, no current knowledge exists on the role of prefrontal areas in the aesthetic perception.The visual brain consists of ‘‘several parallel multistage processing systems, each specialized in a given task such as, color or motion’’[Bartels, A. & Zeki, S. (1999) Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B 265, 2327–2332]. Here we report the results of an experiment carried out with magnetoencephalography which shows that the prefrontal
area is selectively activated in humans during the perception of
objects qualified as ‘‘beautiful’’ by the participants. Therefore,
aesthetics can be hypothetically considered as an attribute perceived by means of a particular brain processing system, in which
th prefrontal cortex seems to play a key role.
area is selectively activated in humans during the perception of
objects qualified as ‘‘beautiful’’ by the participants. Therefore,
aesthetics can be hypothetically considered as an attribute perceived by means of a particular brain processing system, in which
th prefrontal cortex seems to play a key role.
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Aiming to provide a tentative framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference, we review three recent neuroimaging studies carried out with the purpose of locating brain activity associated with decisions about... more
Aiming to provide a tentative framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference, we review three recent neuroimaging studies carried out with the purpose of locating brain activity associated with decisions about the beauty of visual stimuli (Cela-Conde et al., 2004; Kawabata and Zeki, 2004; Vartanian and Goel, 2004). We find that the results of the three studies are not in line with previous neuropsychological data. Moreover, there are no coincidences among their results. However, when they are mapped on to Chatterjee’s (2003) neuropsychological model of aesthetic preference it becomes clear that neuroimaging data are not contradictory, but complementary, and their interpretation is enriched. The results of these studies suggest that affective processes have an important role in aesthetic preference, and that they are integrated with cognitive processes to reach a decision regarding the beauty of visual stimuli. Future studies must aim to clarify whether certain methodological procedures are better suited to study any of the particular cognitive operations involved in aesthetic preference, and ascertain the extent to which the proposed framework is compatible with the aesthetic appreciation of musical stimuli.
Keywords: Brain; fMRI; MEG; aesthetic preference; beauty.
Keywords: Brain; fMRI; MEG; aesthetic preference; beauty.
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Studies of visual esthetic preference have shown that people without art training generally prefer representational paintings to abstract paintings. This, however, is not always the case: preferences can sometimes go against this usual... more
Studies of visual esthetic preference have shown that people without art training generally prefer representational paintings to abstract paintings. This, however, is not always the case: preferences can sometimes go against this usual tendency. We aimed to explore this issue, investigating the relationship between “unusual responses” and reaction time in an esthetic appreciation task. Results of a behavioral experiment confirmed the trend for laypeople to consider as beautiful mostly representational stimuli and as not beautiful mostly abstract ones (“usual response”). Furthermore, when participants gave unusual responses, they needed longer time, especially when considering abstract stimuli as beautiful. We interpreted this longer time as greater involvement of cognitive mastering and evaluation processes during the unusual responses. Results of an fMRI experiment indicated that the anterior cingulate (ACC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and insula were the main structures involved in this effect. We discuss the possible role of these areas in an esthetic appreciation task.
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El estudio de la percepción se asienta sobre unas bases, unas premisas y unos prejuicios, algunos de los cuales comentaremos e intentaremos justificar con el sesgo de nuestra perspectiva, como no podría ser de otra manera. Una primera... more
El estudio de la percepción se asienta sobre unas bases, unas premisas y unos prejuicios, algunos de los cuales comentaremos e intentaremos justificar con el sesgo de nuestra perspectiva, como no podría ser de otra manera. Una primera premisa se fija en considerar la percepción como un proceso mental, un proceso cognitivo. Esa consideración tiene varias consecuencias. Una de ellas se dirige hacia la noción de lo que entendemos por mente, es decir, manejamos la noción de que la percepción se desarrolla en esa entidad ...
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The research from cognitive psychology has found a promising path of application in the field of branding and consumer behaviour. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to the research... more
The research from cognitive psychology has found a promising path of application in the field of branding and consumer
behaviour. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to the research on
evaluations and decision making. In doing this, we expect to clarify the possible scope of cognitive psychology as a potential
tool for research in consumer psychology. In particular, we discuss the possible implications of this line of research for the
developing of two specific areas: subliminal advertising and implicit measures of brand perception.
behaviour. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to the research on
evaluations and decision making. In doing this, we expect to clarify the possible scope of cognitive psychology as a potential
tool for research in consumer psychology. In particular, we discuss the possible implications of this line of research for the
developing of two specific areas: subliminal advertising and implicit measures of brand perception.
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The research from cognitive psychology has found a promising path of application in the field of branding and consumer behaviour. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to the research... more
The research from cognitive psychology has found a promising path of application in the field of branding and consumer behaviour. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to the research on evaluations and decision making. In doing this, we expect to clarify the possible scope of cognitive psychology as a potential tool for research in consumer psychology. In particular, we discuss the possible implications of this line of research for the
developing of two specific areas: subliminal advertising and implicit measures of brand perception.
Key words: Implicit cognition, Subliminal advertising, Cognitive psychology, Consumer psychology
developing of two specific areas: subliminal advertising and implicit measures of brand perception.
Key words: Implicit cognition, Subliminal advertising, Cognitive psychology, Consumer psychology
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Research Interests: Moral Psychology, Affect & Arousal, Morality (Social Psychology), Affect Theory, Moral and Cognitive Reasoning, and 11 moreMoral emotions, Affect/Emotion, Priming, Affect Studies, Nonconscious Priming, The Emotion of Disgust, Disgust, Moral Judgment, Affective Priming, Moral Disgust, and Theories of Disgust
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The need for multidisciplinary approaches to the scientific study of human nature is a widely supported academic claim. This assumption has proved to be especially successful in the field of moral psychology. Although studies of moral... more
The need for multidisciplinary approaches to the scientific study of human nature is a widely supported academic claim. This assumption has proved to be especially successful in the field of moral psychology. Although studies of moral topics have been ubiquitous in social psychology, it is not until the integration of different scientific disciplines in the convergent science of moral psychology that the study of morality started its flourishing age. Thus, in the last ten years, a growing body of research from cognitive sciences, experimental philosophy, primatology, clinical and developmental psychology, economy and anthropology have made possible a “new era” on the study of morality. In this paper, we review the most striking findings that constitute the “state of the art” of moral psychology, with the aim to facilitate a better understanding of how the mind functions in the moral domain.
Keywords: Moral judgment; Affective priming; Disgust; Horror; Moral Psychology
Keywords: Moral judgment; Affective priming; Disgust; Horror; Moral Psychology
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Desde los modelos representacionalistas se ha relacionado la atención visual con la actividad de un sistema supramodal que actúa selectivamente sobre representaciones de alto nivel. Partiendo de los modelos recientes de la... more
Desde los modelos representacionalistas se ha relacionado la atención visual con la actividad de un sistema supramodal que actúa selectivamente sobre representaciones de alto nivel. Partiendo de los modelos recientes de la percepción-acción, y de las evidencias que resultan congruentes con perspectivas que defienden un estrecho vínculo entre atención y acción, proponemos entender la atención visual cómo intrínseca al procesamiento visomotor. Atención y acción se encuentran indisolublemente ligadas, sin necesidad de una mediación representacional. Empezando por los condicionantes evolutivos de la percepción visual humana, analizamos las interrelaciones entre los mecanismos selectivos y la programación y ejecución motoras, apuntando los inconvenientes de los modelos atencionales formulados desde el cognitivismo simbólico. La naturaleza de la atención visual se entiende mejor desde aproximaciones mínimamente representacionalistas (no representacionalistas en el sentido canónico). Más que un sistema que actúa sobre “mapas espaciales maestros”o “representaciones de objetos”, la atención visual es el producto de las transformaciones y sesgos gananciales que ocurren en los circuitos motores a partir de la compleja interacción del organismo (mente-cuerpo) con el entorno.
Palabras clave: Atención visual, no representacionalismo, mente corporeizada, percepción-acción, Teoría Premotora de la atención, selección para la acción, neuronas canónicas, neuronas espejo, movimientos oculares sacádicos, programación motora, ejecución.
Keywords: Visual attention, Non-representationalism, embodied mind, perception-action, Premotor Theory of Attention, selection-for-action, canonical neurons, mirror neurons, saccadic eye movements, motor programming, motor execution.
Palabras clave: Atención visual, no representacionalismo, mente corporeizada, percepción-acción, Teoría Premotora de la atención, selección para la acción, neuronas canónicas, neuronas espejo, movimientos oculares sacádicos, programación motora, ejecución.
Keywords: Visual attention, Non-representationalism, embodied mind, perception-action, Premotor Theory of Attention, selection-for-action, canonical neurons, mirror neurons, saccadic eye movements, motor programming, motor execution.
Research Interests: Action Research, Mirror Neurons, Visual attention, Human Motor Behavior, Embodied Cognition, and 14 moreVisual perception, Embodied Mind and Cognition, Motor Control, Non-representational theory, Non-representational theories, Sensorimotor integration, Visual Perception and Action in Sport, Mirror Neuron System, Perception and Action, Embodied and Enactive Cognition, Selection for action, Action for selection, Canonical Neurons, and Premotor Theory of Attention
Research from cognitive psychology has found a promising application path in the field of branding and consumer behavior. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to research on... more
Research from cognitive psychology has found a promising application path in the field of branding and consumer behavior. In this paper, we review the most striking findings in implicit cognition that are relevant to research on evaluations and decision making. By doing so, we expect to clarify the possible scope of cognitive psychology as a potential tool for research in consumer psychology. In particular, we discuss the possible implications of this line of research for the developing of two specific areas: subliminal advertising and implicit measures of brand perception.
Key words: Implicit cognition, Subliminal advertising, Cognitive psychology, Consumer psychology.
Key words: Implicit cognition, Subliminal advertising, Cognitive psychology, Consumer psychology.
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Previous studies have shown that disgust can shape moral judgments. However, the specificity of this causal relationship remains unclear. The current investigation starts from an affective-dimensional point of view that could contribute... more
Previous studies have shown that disgust can shape moral judgments. However, the specificity of this causal relationship remains unclear. The current investigation starts from an affective-dimensional point of view that could contribute to clarify this intriguing question. From this conceptual approach, we test how different affective primes (disgust and horror pictures), previously matched in valence and arousal, modify participant’s moral judgments. We predict the suboptimal affective priming effects are specific to moral judgments, therefore not influencing non-moral’s. METHOD. 78 participants (21 men; age M.= 20,51) were recruited from undergraduate students at the UIB and randomly assigned either to a disgust-prime or to a horror-prime group. They were asked to rate through a 7-point Likert Scale (7: very appropriate, 1: very inappropriate) two equivalent versions of each dilemma (15 moral pairs and 12 non-moral’s) after being presented with affective (disgust or horror) and neutral primes (SOA=20ms). Dilemmas were displayed in vignettes, also used as backward masks. RESULTS. Appropriateness scores for moral judgments were higher after disgust and horror primes than after neutral primes (p<0.001 for both comparisons). Interestingly, this was not the case for non-moral dilemmas (p<0.574 for disgust-neutral; p<0.819 for horror-neutral comparison). CONCLUSIONS. Suboptimal affective priming by disgust and fear pictures significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, but has no effect on non-moral judgments. These findings suggest the effects of negative primes in moral judgments may be caused by a basic affective processing —quicker, implicit and probably unapprised— involved in the emotional experience of both disgust and horror.
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METHOD 78 participants (? men) gave their punctuations for two versions of each dilemma (total 54 dilemmas, 15 pair's moral and 12 pair's non-moral) one punctuation after affective prime (disgust or fear) and one after neutral prime. A... more
METHOD 78 participants (? men) gave their punctuations for two versions of each dilemma (total 54 dilemmas, 15 pair's moral and 12 pair's non-moral) one punctuation after affective prime (disgust or fear) and one after neutral prime. A Pilot study was previously carried out in order to select which pairs of dilemmas differ in irrelevant variations. Participants were randomly assigned to the disgust-prime condition (n=40) and to the fear-prime condition (n=38). Disgusting pictures from IAPS (7) and horror pictures selected after a Pilot study to be matched in their subjective ratings of valence and arousal were used as affective primes (SOA 20ms). Each dilemma was presented in vignettes that were accompanied with a 7-point Likert scale (from 7: very appropriate to 1: very inappropriate). Thus, higher punctuations corresponded to more permissibility (less severity) in the evaluations of the vignettes. This paradigm was self-paced task, designed in a way that next dilemma is not presented until the subject responds the previous one. REFERENCES
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We are delighted to invite you to join us at the First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies (SEJyD), taking place on July 12-13, 2016. The conference will be held in Palma (Majorca, Spain), at... more
We are delighted to invite you to join us at the First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies (SEJyD), taking place on July 12-13, 2016. The conference will be held in Palma (Majorca, Spain), at the CaixaForum Gran Hotel, one of the most spectacular examples of modernist architecture in Mallorca, located in the historical town center. The First Meeting aims to be a new and exciting forum to communicate and discuss your findings, either through an oral presentation or a poster. The meeting's topics include the following: 1. Neural basis of judgment and decision making 2. Moral judgment 3. Preferences, aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgment 4. Decision making in the field of sport 5. Decision making in the field of consumer behaviour (*we encourage contributions related to tourism consumption) 6. Open Communications (related to JDM) In addition to the scheduled plenary lectures by Martin Skov, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, and Todd Hare, to the applied workshop, and to the panel discussion, the scientific program includes two poster sessions, and six thematic sessions (for oral presentations) in which your valuable submissions will be much appreciated. Advances in basic or applied research, reports of empirical results, developments in theory and methodological papers are all welcome. We encourage submissions from different fields, or from interdisciplinary research groups, mainly, but not exclusively, related to experimental, social, clinical and applied psychology,
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We examined the influence of affective priming on the appreciation of abstract artworks using an evaluative priming task. Facial primes (showing happiness, disgust or no emotion) were presented under short (Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, SOA... more
We examined the influence of affective priming on the appreciation of abstract artworks using an evaluative priming task. Facial primes (showing happiness, disgust or no emotion) were presented under short (Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, SOA = 20ms) and extended (SOA = 300ms) conditions.
Differences in aesthetic liking for abstract paintings depending on the emotion expressed in the preceding primes provided a measure of the priming effect. The results showed that, for the extended SOA, artworks were liked more when preceded by happiness primes and less when preceded by disgust primes. Facial expressions of happiness, though not of disgust, exerted similar effects in the short SOA condition. Subjective measures and a forced-choice task revealed no evidence of prime awareness in the suboptimal condition. Our results are congruent with findings showing that the affective transfer elicited by priming biases evaluative judgments, extending previous research to the domain of aesthetic appreciation.
Differences in aesthetic liking for abstract paintings depending on the emotion expressed in the preceding primes provided a measure of the priming effect. The results showed that, for the extended SOA, artworks were liked more when preceded by happiness primes and less when preceded by disgust primes. Facial expressions of happiness, though not of disgust, exerted similar effects in the short SOA condition. Subjective measures and a forced-choice task revealed no evidence of prime awareness in the suboptimal condition. Our results are congruent with findings showing that the affective transfer elicited by priming biases evaluative judgments, extending previous research to the domain of aesthetic appreciation.
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Previous studies have shown that disgust can shape moral judgments. However, the specificity of this causal relationship remains unclear. The current investigation starts from an affective-dimensional point of view that could contribute... more
Previous studies have shown that disgust can shape moral judgments. However, the specificity of this causal relationship remains unclear. The current investigation starts from an affective-dimensional point of view that could contribute to clarify this intriguing question. From this conceptual approach, we test how different affective primes (disgust and horror pictures), previously matched in valence and arousal, modify participant’s moral judgments. We predict the suboptimal affective priming effects are specific to moral judgments, therefore not influencing non-moral’s. METHOD. 78 participants (21 men; age M.= 20,51) were recruited from undergraduate students at the UIB and randomly assigned either to a disgust-prime or to a horror-prime group. They were asked to rate through a 7-point Likert Scale (7: very appropriate, 1: very inappropriate) two equivalent versions of each dilemma (15 moral pairs and 12 non-moral’s) after being presented with affective (disgust or horror) and neutral primes (SOA=20ms). Dilemmas were displayed in vignettes, also used as backward masks. RESULTS. Appropriateness scores for moral judgements were higher after disgust and horror primes than after neutral primes (p<0.001 for both comparisons). Interestingly, this was not the case for non-moral dilemmas (p=0.574 for disgust-neutral; p=0.819 for horror-neutral comparison). CONCLUSIONS. Suboptimal affective priming by disgust and fear pictures significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, but have no effect on non-moral judgments. These findings suggest the effects of negative primes in moral judgments may be caused by a basic affective processing —quicker, implicit and probably unappraised— involved in the emotional experience of both disgust and horror.
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Previous findings suggest that negative affect biases the perception of affectively congruent facial expressions of emotion, independently of their approach-withdrawal dimension. We study the effects of anger and sadness inductions in the... more
Previous findings suggest that negative affect biases the perception of affectively congruent facial expressions of emotion, independently of their approach-withdrawal dimension. We study the effects of anger and sadness inductions in the discrimination of three emotion-related facial expressions, with special interest to examine the influence of the approach-withdrawal component of the emotions on the discrimination reaction time. In a repeated measures design, 72 voluntary female participants were induced to feel anger, sadness and a “neutral” state using a method that joins the report of autobiographic events with a guided semiarranged interview. The effects of emotional induction were assessed by three consecutive self-reports (pre-induction, post-induction, post-task). After induction, participants performed 3 different blocks. In each one, they had to discriminate, as quickly as possible, a particular facial expression (anger, fear and sadness) in a series of computerized images showing, quasi-randomly, different pairs of facial expressions of emotion, as well as neutral faces. Both the conditions (anger, sadness, control) and the different blocks of the task were counterbalanced between subjects. Results suggest a congruence effect related to the approach-withdrawal dimension of the negative emotions. Specifically, when anger was induced, participants discriminated faster anger faces. Conversely, when sadness was induced, they became faster in discriminating sadness but also fear faces. Further research is needed to determine whether these findings can be replicated in new experiments. We discuss the results in relation to previous findings supporting the affect-congruence model (valence-based bias) but now taking into account the approach-withdrawal framework.
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-What is not attention? Varieties of attention and some (false) discussions. -Eye movements and the orienting response. -Visual attention and eye movements: conceptual basis. -Dissociating eye movements and attentional focus.... more
-What is not attention? Varieties of attention and some (false) discussions.
-Eye movements and the orienting response.
-Visual attention and eye movements: conceptual basis.
-Dissociating eye movements and attentional focus.
-Attentional shifts precedes eye movements.
-Can saccadics be faster than attention?
-Visual attention and trans-saccadic memory.
-Effects of eye behaviour on attention... ...and viceversa.
-Eye movements programming as origins of visual attention.
-Visual attention nowadays: Selection-for-action, action-for-selection.
-Eye movements and the orienting response.
-Visual attention and eye movements: conceptual basis.
-Dissociating eye movements and attentional focus.
-Attentional shifts precedes eye movements.
-Can saccadics be faster than attention?
-Visual attention and trans-saccadic memory.
-Effects of eye behaviour on attention... ...and viceversa.
-Eye movements programming as origins of visual attention.
-Visual attention nowadays: Selection-for-action, action-for-selection.
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Recent research on affective priming has increased our understanding of emotional information processing at different levels of awareness and of its effects on subsequent assessments. Some authors have used facial expressions as prime... more
Recent research on affective priming has increased our understanding of emotional information processing at different levels of awareness and of its effects on subsequent assessments. Some authors have used facial expressions as prime stimuli, given their advantage over other kinds of affective stimuli (Murphy & Zajonc, 1993; Milders et al., 2006, etc), to analyze their influence on judgments of the affective valence or pleasantness of neutral stimuli (Murphy & Zajonc, 1993; Wong & Root, 2003; etc.). The novelty of the present experiment resides in the use of facial expressions to study the effect of priming (conscious and unconscious) on aesthetic preference for abstract artworks. We wished to ascertain whether this effect occurs to the same extent with positive and negative expressions, and whether there are differences due to the level of awareness of the prime. We were also interested in studying the dynamic effects of priming on aesthetic preferences. We seeked to clarify whether a certain expression exerts a more stable influence in time, and whether such temporal robustness changes (and in which direction) according to the level of awareness of the prime.
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Some studies showed that people tend to prefer curved contours to sharp contours (e.g. Bar & Neta, 2006; Palumbo & Bertamini, 2016). However, there are differences among people regarding this preference. In particular, recent studies... more
Some studies showed that people tend to prefer curved contours to sharp contours (e.g. Bar & Neta, 2006; Palumbo & Bertamini, 2016). However, there are differences among people regarding this preference. In particular, recent studies suggest that there are gender-based differences (Belman et al., 2016). Moreover, the emotional valence modulates preference for curved shapes, although very few studies have dissociated the effects of valence from those of the approach-avoidance dimension. Furthermore, while some studies propose that the preference for curvature is an outcome of processing mode 1, others report the crucial role of semantic networks in aesthetic appreciation (e.g. Faerber et al., 2010). As there is no necessary contradiction between the two approaches, we decided to investigate the influence of semantic priming (briefly presented verbs denoting positive and negative approach, avoidance and control pseudowords) on the preference for abstract curved shapes by partially dissociating the effects of valence to those of the motivational dimension. Additionally, we further explored gender-based differences. Thus, 78 participants (39 females) performed a semantic priming task with dichotomous response. Priming words were displayed during 32ms. Then, a pair of stimuli appeared for 80ms. Participants had to choose as fast as possible one of the images. We found that only women preferentially chose the curved-contour forms. This way our results are congruent with those of Belman and colleagues’ (2016), calling into question the notion of a general trend to prefer curved contours. Interestingly, we found that positive approach primes reduced women’s choice to chance levels so that the preference for curvature dissapeared. Results are discussed in terms of the putative processes that could underly gender differences, as well as how the previously reported association of curved shapes with safe and positive concepts (Palumbo et al., 2015) could explain the effect of positive approach verbs in women.