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Kama muta: conceptualizing and measuring the experience of being moved across 1...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Schubert, T. W.; Seibt, C.; Blomster, J.; Arriaga, P.; Basabe, N.; Blaut, A.; Caballero, A.; Carrera, P.; Dalgar, I.; Ding, Y.English-speakers sometimes say that they feel moved to tears, emotionally touched, stirred, or that something warmed their heart; other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. We propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? W...
Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, go...
Schubert, T. W.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Seibt, C.; Fiske, A. P.Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre of the chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one’s feeling as being moved or touched is a component of a social-relational emotion that we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). We hypothesise that it is caused by apprais...
Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved
Seibt, C.; Schubert, T. W.; Zickfeld, J. H.; Fiske, A. P.The emotion commonly labeled in English as being moved or touched is widely experienced but only tacitly defined, and has received little systematic attention. Based on a review of conceptualizations from various disciplines, we hypothesize that events appraised as an increase in interpersonal closeness, or as moral acts, when sufficiently intense, elicit a positive emotion typically labeled "being moved," and ...
Empathic concern is part of a more general communal emotion
Zickfeld, J. H.; Schubert, T. W.; Seibt, C.; Fiske, A. P.Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs). In other contexts, when people suddenly feel close to others, or observe others suddenly feeling closer to each other, this sudden closeness tends to evoke an emotion often labeled in vernacular English as being moved, touched, or heart-w...
Beyond positive or negative: qualitative sentiment analysis of social media rea...
Gaspar, R.; Pedro, C.; Panagiotopoulos, P.; Seibt, C.Sentiment analysis techniques are increasingly used to grasp reactions from social media users to unexpected and potentially stressful social events. This paper argues that, alongside assessments of the affective valence of social media content as negative or positive, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the context in which reactions are expressed and the specific functions that users' emotional stat...
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: information exposure eff...
Gaspar, R.; Luís, S.; Seibt, C.; Lima, M. L.; Marcu, A.; Rutsaert, P.; Fletcher, D.; Verbeke, W.; Barnett, J.In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposur...
Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: lay sense-making around s...
Marcu, A.; Gaspar, R.; Rutsaert, P.; Seibt, C.; Flecther, D.; Verbeke, W.; Barnett, J.Drawing on social representations theory, we explore how the public make sense of the unfamiliar, taking as the example a novel technology: synthetic meat. Data from an online deliberation study and eighteen focus groups in Belgium, Portugal and the UK indicated that the various strategies of sense-making afforded different levels of critical thinking about synthetic meat. Anchoring to genetic modification, met...
Beyond information seeking: consumers’ online deliberation about the risks and ...
Rutsaert, P.; Barnett, J.; Gaspar, R.; Marcu, A.; Pieniak, Z.; Seibt, C.; Lima, M. L.; Flecther, D.; Verbeke, W.Successfully engaging consumers in a dialogue may provide opportunities for better tailored and more effective communication about food-related risks and benefits. Using an online deliberation concept and software, VIZZATA™, we explored the validity of a behavioral measure of deliberation in an online environment in the context of consumers’ perceptions and information seeking about the risks and benefits of re...
Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity
Seibt, C.; Waldzus, S.; Schubert, T. W.; Brito, R.The target article diagnoses a dominance of liberal viewpoints with little evidence, promotes a conservative viewpoint without defining it, and wrongly projects the U.S. liberal-conservative spectrum to the whole field of social psychology. Instead, we propose to anticipate and reduce mixing of theorizing and ideology by using definitions that acknowledge divergence in perspective, and promote representative sa...
‘Would you eat cultured meat?’: consumers' reactions and attitude formation in ...
Verbeke, W.; Marcu, A.; Rutsaert, P.; Gaspar, R.; Seibt, C.; Fletcher, D.; Barnett, J.Cultured meat has evolved from an idea and concept into a reality with the August 2013 cultured hamburger tasting in London. Still, how consumers conceive cultured meat is largely an open question. This study addresses consumers' reactions and attitude formation towards cultured meat through analyzing focus group discussions and online deliberations with 179 meat consumers from Belgium, Portugal and the United ...