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The effects of emotional behaviour on components of the respiratory cycle.

Boiten, Frans A·1998·Biological Psychology
DOI 10.1016/s0301-0511(98)00025-8
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The present study was designed to examine affect-related respiratory responses during film scenes, reaction time (RT) and cold pressor (CP) tasks. In addition, I investigated whether affect-related respiratory responses could be characterised by a number of underlying dimensions, such as positive versus negative affect and active versus passive coping. Respiratory output was indexed by a detailed analyses of various volumetric and timing components of the breathing cycle. There were fundamental differences in respiratory responses to different types of affective and cognitively demanding tasks. The emotionally loaded film stimuli showed clear effects on respiration whenever the films elicited amusement and disgust. That is, amusement (laughter) induced a decrease in inspiratory time and tidal volume, whereas disgust could be linked to a prolongation of inspiratory pauses (breath-holding). Relative to a pretask baseline, RT performance elicited a relatively fast, shallow and regular breathing pattern. The pattern of breathing in response to CP was in stark contrast to the RT task, in that a substantial increase in tidal volume, minute ventilation, mean inspiratory flow and breathing irregularity was accompanied by no change in total cycle duration. The implications of these results are discussed with regard to specificity and dimensional models. It is suggested that specificity models might apply to phasic respiratory activity such as breath-holding in disgust and pain. On the other hand, breathing irregularity and expiratory pause duration appears to correspond to emotion dimensions (positive versus negative affect) that cut across the boundaries of emotion categories. Lastly, there were the respiratory patterns that could be more readily interpreted in terms of a task-involvement or active versus passive coping attitude.

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  • Decreased HRV and respiratory variability are clearly associated with emotional as well as cognitive load and top-down regulation.

    “Decreased HRV and respiratory variability are clearly associated with emotional (e.g., negative emotions such as anxiety, Boiten, 1998; Thayer and Lane, 2000; Wilhelm et al., 2001; Van Diest et al., 2006; Friedman, 2007) as well as cognitive load and top-down regulation (Thayer and Lane, 2000, 2009; Vlemincx et al., 2010, 2011).”

    From Voice Stress Analysis: A New Framework for Voice and Effort in Human Performance (2018) · cites this paper as Boiten, 1998

  • Different emotional and cognitive states alter the depth and frequency of breathing, which impacts emotional state in part by regulation of carbon dioxide levels.

    “It is also clear that different emotional and cognitive states alter the depth and frequency of breathing,8,9,10,11,12 which likewise impacts emotional state, in part by regulation of carbon dioxide levels.13,14,15,16,17”

    From Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal (2023) · cites this paper as [9]

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Authors
Boiten, F. A.
Affiliations
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Boiten, Frans A
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1998-09
Volume
49
Issue
1-2
Pages
29-51
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0301-0511(98)00025-8
OpenAlex
W2040547201
Cited by
205
References
52
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
Keywords
respiratory cycle, breathing pattern, amusements, disgust, cold pressor task, reaction time, tidal volume, breath-holding, positive and negative affect, coping styles, task involvement
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Arousal, Attention, Emotions, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Male, Psychophysiology, Reaction Time, Pulmonary Ventilation

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