- 著者
- Shu IMAIZUMI Yutaro TANIWAKI Hiromichi TAKEHARA Tatsuya IWAKI
- 出版者
- Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
- 雑誌
- International Journal of Affective Engineering (ISSN:21875413)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, no.1, pp.37-41, 2017 (Released:2017-01-31)
- 参考文献数
- 17
Protective frame is a feature of experience in which individuals find a situation as protecting them from negative consequences, and enables them to experience positive rather than negative emotions. We examined whether fictionality of stimuli acts as a protective frame. Participants rated their positive and negative emotions induced by fictional or non-fictional film stimuli including fearful or disgusting content, and completed a questionnaire measuring their mood. Results indicated that disgusting-fictional stimulus induced weaker disgust compared to disgusting-non-fictional stimulus, while fictionality showed no such effect on fearful stimuli. Stronger perceived fictionality was associated with stronger interest in the film and urge to continue watching the film. We suggest that fictionality decreases disgust and increases positive emotion towards negative stimuli.
- 著者
- Manami FURUNO Shu IMAIZUMI Kana MAEDA Haruo HIBINO Shinichi KOYAMA
- 出版者
- Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
- 雑誌
- International Journal of Affective Engineering (ISSN:21875413)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.IJAE-D-16-00045, (Released:2017-06-27)
- 参考文献数
- 33
- 被引用文献数
- 10
The photomontage of lotus seedpods on human skin has been called “Hasu-colla” in Japan, and this can elicit strong aversion in viewers. Previous studies have reported that lotus seedpods evoke core disgust, and that Hasu-colla relates to animal reminder disgust. However, the relationship between unpleasantness evoked by lotus seedpods and that by Hasu-colla has not been demonstrated. The present study investigated whether Hasu-colla evokes stronger disgust than lotus seedpods presented alone as well as differences between background objects (from animal to stone) in evoking aversion. Hasu-colla induced stronger unpleasantness than did lotus seedpods and background objects presented alone (Exp. 1 and 2). The amplification of unpleasantness was weakest in stones and strongest in dogs among animals (Exp. 2). Lotus seedpods, which are related to disgust for clusters, evoke strong feelings of contamination, supporting the possibility that such clusters are associated with scars and sores.