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8770375

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-2
pubmed:abstractText
Few investigators have attempted to examine empirically the relationship between perception of autonomic arousal and emotional state. According to Jamesian theory, individuals who are more aware of their visceral activity should demonstrate greater affective response to emotion-laden stimuli than individuals who are not viscerally perceptive. Therefore, certain groups of 'unemotional' subjects, such as anhedonics, may report fewer or less intense emotional experiences due to an attenuation or lack of autonomic feedback. Results from studies by Katkin (Psychophysiology, 22, (1985) 125-137) suggest that there is a relationship between induced sympathetic arousal, the perception of that arousal, and the self-report of emotional experience. The present study sought to expand upon these findings by comparing visceral perception (i.e. heartbeat detection) performance and a multi-component assessment of emotion in normal and anhedonic subjects. No correlation was found between anhedonia and visceral perception; however, anhedonics were significantly different from normals across several measures of heart rate, self-report, and facial expressions in response to emotion-eliciting slides, with anhedonics consistently showing emotional hypo-responsiveness. Additionally, subjects who were able to perceive their own heartbeats were found to be more facially expressive than poor perceivers.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0301-0511
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
131-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Visceral perception, anhedonia, and emotion.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-2500, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article