Non-Contingent Affective Outcomes Influence Feelings of Control
- Author
- Paolizzi, Sophie Germaine
- Published
- [University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators
- Carlson, Richard A. (Richard Alan), 1956- and Schreyer Honors College
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- Open Access.
- Summary
- Although a body of evidence suggests that the sense of agency, or feelings of control (FoC) over actions and their outcomes, is a central component of intentional action, little is known about how emotionality influences agency. Furthermore, this connection has not been fully explored using an explicit account of agency judgements. In a series of experiments, we asked participants to complete variations of a simple aiming task, in which words appeared in place of clicked targets. The affective content of the words was not contingent on participants performance. We then asked participants to judge their sense of agency. We found that FoC varied consistently across levels of affect, with the highest FoC for conditions with positive outcome words (e.g., puppy) and the lowest FoC for conditions with negative outcome words (e.g., killer). These results suggest affective outcomes can influence the sense of agency, even though the outcomes are not related to performance.
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- Dissertation Note
- B.A. Pennsylvania State University 2019.
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- The full text of the dissertation is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
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