PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Perceived Control, Hurricane Harvey, Dukkha
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Attitudes indicate whether we should tend to approach or avoid the attitude object. Examples: i feel that ice cream is delicious . I believe that ice cream is unhealthy and should be eaten sparingly. We should like things more if our arms are fluxioned close to us. We should dislike things more if our arms are extended: participants viewed series of novel ideographs. Images that people don"t have strong positive or negative feelings about. During viewing, half were viewed with extension and half with flexion. People sat at a table with their palms on the table and pushed down on the table viewing the images (extension) Other half of people were sat at the table with their palms under the table pushing up while looking at the images (flexion) Follow up 5-9 days later: dv: sort each ideograph into 1/6 trays, results: Ideographs seen during arm flexion rated as more positive. Ideographs seen during arm extension rated as more negative.
