1. Differential relation of two distinct, film-induced positive emotional states to affiliative and agentic extraversion
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Richard A. Depue and Jeannine V Morrone-Strupinsky
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Extraversion and introversion ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Closeness ,Developmental psychology ,Affection ,Trait ,Personality ,Film material ,Psychology ,Set (psychology) ,Social psychology ,psychological phenomena and processes ,General Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Extraversion is comprised of two major components, referred to as agency and affiliation, which are characterized by two different types of positive emotional states of incentive motivation–positive activation and warmth–affection, respectively (Depue & Collins, 1999). In response to the lack of film material targeting these different positive emotional states, a set of films was previously developed that significantly induces a state of incentive motivation–positive activation (Morrone, Depue, Scherer, & White, 2000). In the present study, due to a paucity of methods that specifically induce warmth and affection, dynamic film material was developed that activates such subjective experience. Affiliative film-induced increases in warmth and affection ratings were significantly related to a trait measure of affiliative extraversion [Tellegen's MPQ Social Closeness scale (r=0.39, P
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- 2004