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Pleasure, Arousal, Dominance: Mehrabian and Russell revisited

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Bakker, Iris, van der Voordt, Theo, Vink, Peter, de Boon, Jan·2014·Current Psychology
DOI 10.1007/s12144-014-9219-4
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  • Word norms provide a low dimensional proxy for emotional variation.

    “The value of word norms is that they provide a low dimensional proxy for emotional variation.”

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    Sections 2 and 3 describe pleasure, arousal and dominance as emotional dimensions operationalized with adjectives, supporting the low-dimensional aspect of the claim. They do not establish that word norms—normative ratings of words—serve as a proxy for emotional variation; the paper discusses adjectives chiefly in relation to people's responses to physical environments. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  • According to dimensional models of emotion, each discrete emotion can be represented in terms of an underlying set of finite components.

    “That is, according to dimensional models of emotion, each discrete emotion can be represented in terms of an underlying set of finite components [34, 43].”

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    The Introduction and §3 describe pleasure, arousal and dominance as three dimensions of emotional responses and states of feeling. They support the idea of a finite set of underlying dimensions, but do not say that every discrete emotion can be represented by them; the paper focuses on environmental experience. Page numbers were not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Bakker, I., van der Voordt, T., Vink, P., & de Boon, J.
Affiliations
Delft University of Technology (NL)
Corresponding author
Bakker, Iris
ORCID
Vink, Peter
Venue
Current Psychology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-06-11
Volume
33
Issue
3
Pages
405-421
ISSN
  • 1046-1310 (ISSN-L)
  • 1936-4733
DOI
10.1007/s12144-014-9219-4
OpenAlex
W2008264338
Cited by
415
References
108
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7.42
Type
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Color perception and design
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
Keywords
pleasure, arousal, dominance, environmental perception, environmental experience, ABC model of attitudes, emotional responses, cognitive responses, conative response, physical environment, 3D model, environmental psychology

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