Biomedical subjects

C Whissell

Publications and source records attributed to C Whissell.

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PubMed1991

Children's understanding of facial expression of emotion: I. Voluntary creation of emotion-faces.

22 children (ages 4 to 6 yr.) from a day-care service were asked to "make a face" that would show how they would feel in five situations representing the basic emotions of happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, and fear. Children decoded their own videotaped responses one week later, and they also decoded the same expressions presented by a child whom they did not know. Groups of day-care teachers and university students were employed in decoding the children's facial responses. Recognizability of all emotions by all decoders improved with the age of the child in a linear manner (9% gain per year). Happy and disgusted expressions were the most easily decoded.

Awareness↗

PubMed1989

Will premenstrual syndrome produce a Ms. Hyde?: evidence from daily administrations of the Emotions Profile Index.

22 women participated in a study that required daily completion of the Emotions Profile Index and a short diary form for 49 consecutive days. The Emotions Profile Index for 868 subject-days was factor-analyzed. Differences in Factor 1 (friendly extraversion) were related to menstrual cycle position while differences in Factor 2 (timidity) were not. Evidence for a premenstrual move in the direction of aggressive, depressed distrust (irritable introversion) is discussed. It is noted that premenstrual differences in emotion are much weaker than the other significant effects discovered in the experiment (individual differences, unusual events, stress): the potentially cumulative effects of these variables are discussed.

Adult↗

PubMed1988

The affective tone of words in Velten's mood-induction statements.

An analysis of the words employed in the three conditions of the Velten Mood Induction technique (Elated, Depressed, Neutral) by the Dictionary of Affect in Language provided some validation for the affective tone of the two mood-inducing conditions while highlighting problems associated with the supposedly neutral induction.

Depression↗

PubMed1988

The Dictionary of Affect in Language as a tool for the assessment of affective tone in a descriptive task.

148 subjects were asked to describe the terms mathematics, physics, television, newspapers, biology, and technology in terms of a list of five additional words. Responses produced by subjects were scored for two dimensions of affective tone (activation, evaluation) by matching words to the Dictionary of Affect in Language that includes scores for the two dimensions for several thousand commonly used words. Clear differences in affective tone emerged from this scoring procedure: mathematics and physics received the least positive evaluative descriptions, while television was described in most active and rousing terms and biology in most inactive terms. Women gave more negative (lower evaluation) descriptions for mathematics than did men, which satisfied one of the a priori predictions of the study.

Affect↗