Temporal characteristics of emotional response: A decay model of annoyance response to acoustic noise

摘要

Blatz demonstrated in 1925 that physiological responses to a fear-provoking stimulus increase sharply at the onset of the stimulus and eventually return to their respective resting states. If physiological responses to emotion-provoking stimuli decay after the onset of the stimuli, then it is hypothesized that so will the emotional state (subject, of course, to cognitive and other contextual factors, Buck, 1976; Schachter & Singer, 1962). A series of experiments are proposed to demonstrate the existence of this change in emotional state as well as to estimate temporal parameters for specific emotion-provoking situations.