TY  - JOUR
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Wagner, Valentin
A1  - Hanich, Julian
A1  - Wassiliwizky, Eugen
A1  - Kuehnast, Milena
A1  - Jacobsen, Thomas
T1  - Towards a psychological construct of being moved
T2  - PloS one
N2  - The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series of three studies, we investigated eliciting scenarios, emotional ingredients, appraisal patterns, feeling qualities, and the affective signature of being moved and related emotional states. The great majority of the eliciting scenarios can be assigned to significant relationship and critical life events (especially death, birth, marriage, separation, and reunion). Sadness and joy turned out to be the two preeminent emotions involved in episodes of being moved. Both the sad and the joyful variants of being moved showed a coactivation of positive and negative affect and can thus be ranked among the mixed emotions. Moreover, being moved, while featuring only low-to-mid arousal levels, was experienced as an emotional state of high intensity; this applied to responses to fictional artworks no less than to own-life and other real, but media-represented, events. The most distinctive findings regarding cognitive appraisal dimensions were very low ratings for causation of the event by oneself and for having the power to change its outcome, along with very high ratings for appraisals of compatibility with social norms and self-ideals. Putting together the characteristics identified and discussed throughout the three studies, the paper ends with a sketch of a psychological construct of being moved.
KW  - Neurobiologie
KW  - Einfühlung
KW  - Trauer
KW  - Freude
KW  - being moved
KW  - being touched
KW  - Empirische Ästhetik
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46910
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469100
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 10
IS  - (6): e0128451
SP  - 1
EP  - 33
ER  -