Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face: Psychophysiological Evidence That Processing Facilitation Elicits Positive Affect,

@article{citeulike:1092715, abstract = {The affect system, in its position to monitor organismic-environmental transactions, may be sensitive to the internal dynamics of information processing. Hence, the authors predicted that facilitation of stimulus processing should elicit a brief, mild, positive affective response. In 2 studies, participants watched a series of neutral pictures while the processing ease was unobtrusively manipulated. Affective reactions were assessed with facial electromyography (EMG). In both studies, easy-to-process pictures elicited higher activity over the region of zygomaticus major, indicating positive affect. The EMG data were paralleled by self-reports of positive responses to the facilitated stimuli. The findings suggest a close link between processing dynamics and affect and may help understand several preference phenomena, including the mere-exposure effect. The findings also highlight a potential source of affective biases in social judgments.}, author = {Winkielman, Piotr and Cacioppo, John T. }, citeulike-article-id = {1092715}, journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology}, keywords = {fluency, judgment}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {989--1000}, posted-at = {2007-02-07 15:13:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face: Psychophysiological Evidence That Processing Facilitation Elicits Positive Affect,}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X01-46G4KCM-G/2/b6f6f6ee8fc2ef69dc5596670d21862d}, volume = {81}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1092715 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1092715 TI - Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face: Psychophysiological Evidence That Processing Facilitation Elicits Positive Affect, JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology VL - 81 IS - 6 SP - 989 EP - 1000 N2 - The affect system, in its position to monitor organismic-environmental transactions, may be sensitive to the internal dynamics of information processing. Hence, the authors predicted that facilitation of stimulus processing should elicit a brief, mild, positive affective response. In 2 studies, participants watched a series of neutral pictures while the processing ease was unobtrusively manipulated. Affective reactions were assessed with facial electromyography (EMG). In both studies, easy-to-process pictures elicited higher activity over the region of zygomaticus major, indicating positive affect. The EMG data were paralleled by self-reports of positive responses to the facilitated stimuli. The findings suggest a close link between processing dynamics and affect and may help understand several preference phenomena, including the mere-exposure effect. The findings also highlight a potential source of affective biases in social judgments. KW - fluency KW - judgment AU - Winkielman, Piotr AU - Cacioppo, John PY - 2001/12// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X01-46G4KCM-G/2/b6f6f6ee8fc2ef69dc5596670d21862d ER -