Conceptualization Of Emotions Research Articles

An analysis of transformative leadership impact on the students’ emotions and perceived cognitive learning

ABSTRACT This study utilized Emotional Response Theory to explore teachers’ embodiment of transformational leadership. Specifically, we explored how transformational leadership may be related to student emotions and their perceptions of learning. Results indicated that when students experience transformational leadership from their teachers their emotions are influenced. Transformational leadership demonstrated direct effects on student perceptions of learning. Indirect effects of transformational leadership, working through positive or negative emotions, were also observed. These results indicate that transformational leadership is one way that student emotions could be impacted by teachers. Finally, broader conceptualizations of student emotions may be appropriate when exploring student emotions.

Metaphorical Conceptualization of Sadness in Wolaita

This study investigates the metaphorical conceptualization of sadness in Wolaita, a language spoken by over 1.6 million people in Ethiopia, from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Grounded in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the research explores how the Wolaita people express sadness through linguistic metaphors and compares these with findings from well-studied languages such as English, Amharic, and Agnwa. The study aims to identify linguistic metaphors for sadness in Wolaita, describe their universal and culturally specific bases, and contribute to the debate on the universality versus culture-specificity of emotion conceptualization. Using qualitative methods, including data elicitation, introspection, and analysis of written and spoken texts, the study examines metaphorical expressions of sadness in Wolaita. Data sources include Wolaita-language textbooks, a bilingual dictionary, idioms, audio-visual materials, and native-speaker intuitions. The analysis identifies conceptual mappings between source domains (e.g., pain, fluid, journey) and the target domain of sadness. The findings reveal that sadness in Wolaita is conceptualized through metaphors such as “sadness is pain,” “sadness is fluid,” “sadness is down,” “sadness is enemy,” “sadness is burden,” “sadness is journey,” “sadness is food,” and “sadness is gift.” These metaphors reflect the Wolaita people’s perception of sadness as an undesirable emotion, with cultural peculiarities such as the use of spoiled foods and impure fluids to represent its intensity. The study demonstrates that although sadness is universal at a basic level, its complex conceptualizations exhibit cultural specificity. This research contributes to cognitive linguistics and emotion studies by providing empirical evidence from an understudied language. It highlights the interconnection between universal human experiences and culturally shaped metaphors, enriching our understanding of the universality versus culture-specificity debate and underscoring the importance of linguistic diversity in emotion research.

ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ВЕРБАЛИЗАЦИЯ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ МЕТАФОРЫ В АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОЙ И РУССКОЯЗЫЧНОЙ ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРАХ

The paper deals with the analysis of the emotional metaphor as a means of emotion conceptualization in phraseology. The interest to such idioms is accounted for by their capacity to reflect the understanding of emotions based on the socio-cultural experience of the language community, as well as to illustrate the national peculiarities of world perception through metaphoric meanings. On the material of English and Russian, metaphoric models of the emotional state are characterized, the role of metaphor in mapping the emotional domain is considered. In the context of a comparative study the authors find it relevant to expand the scope of understanding of the emotional model of the world formation by different linguocultures. Metaphors widely used to explicate the emotional concepts are orientational and ontological ones. A special attention is paid to anthropomorphic and zoomorphic metaphoric types. It is argued that the most productive metaphor is the anthropomorphic one, which can be explained by the anthropocentric mode of human cognition. Anthropomorphic metaphor assigns typically human properties or actions to emotions. Physiological metaphor also seems to be frequent in emotion conceptualization, based on similarity of physiological symptoms and emotional states. Zoomorphic metaphor is also actively used in metaphorical structuring the emotional sphere due to the special significance of animal images for people. In such idioms, animal images are metaphorically patterned to give characteristics of human emotions. The analysis of the material allows to make a conclusion that English and Russian phraseology represent nationally and culturally specific ways of metaphorical mapping of the human emotional experience. The common features in the metaphoric emotion representation are revealed in universal domain spheres for emotional metaphors. The distinctive features reveal themselves in different ways and frequency value, used in the process of figurative representation of positive and negative emotions in the phraseology of English and Russian, differences and gaps in metaphoric meanings, cognitive patterns of emotional concepts.

Emotion specificity, coherence, and cultural variation in conceptualizations of positive emotions: a study of body sensations and emotion recognition

ABSTRACT The present study examines the association between people’s interoceptive representation of physical sensations and the recognition of vocal and facial expressions of emotion. We used body maps to study the granularity of the interoceptive conceptualisation of 11 positive emotions (amusement, awe, compassion, contentment, desire, love, joy, interest, pride, relief, and triumph) and a new emotion recognition test (Emotion Expression Understanding Test) to assess the ability to recognise emotions from vocal and facial behaviour. Overall, we found evidence for distinct interoceptive conceptualizations of 11 positive emotions across Asian American, European American, and Latino/a American cultures, as well as the reliable identification of emotion in facial and vocal expressions. Central to new theorising about emotion-related representation, the granularity of physical sensations did not covary with emotion recognition accuracy, suggesting that two kinds of emotion conceptualisation processes might be distinct.

“Feeling like” upholding conservative politics: The material and affective dimensions of women's support for AKP

“Feeling like” upholding conservative politics: The material and affective dimensions of women's support for AKP

Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms.

Anticipated emotions are the feelings one expects if a hypothetical future event were to occur, whereas anticipatory emotions are those one experiences right now while imagining the event. There has been little direct comparison of these two forms of future-oriented emotion, and authors have typically focused on positive emotions (e.g., pleasure). Besides, their sensitivity to depressive symptoms-which may help to explain motivational problems in depression-has only recently been investigated (e.g., Anderson et al., 2023; Gamble et al., 2021). The present study (conducted September-November 2022) used innovative picture-and-text vignettes depicting everyday positive and negative future events, to which participants rated their anticipated and anticipatory responses on separate dimensions of valence (i.e., how positive or negative) and arousal (i.e., emotional intensity). Based on prior literature, anticipatory emotions were expected to be correlated with, yet weaker than, anticipated emotions, reflecting a conceptualization of anticipatory emotions as a "foretaste" of the affective response one expects in the future. We also predicted that high depressive symptoms would coincide with diminished emotion ratings overall and specifically for anticipatory emotions (tightly coupled with event expectations; Carrera et al., 2012). Results largely supported these preregistered predictions, yet anticipatory emotions (positive and negative) were only weaker in more highly depressed participants. Depressive symptoms may therefore affect how one currently feels about future possibilities without altering one's expectations of how such events would actually feel. Implications and future research objectives arising from this are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Emotional Conceptualization in Turkish and English Body Idioms

imagery, which facilitates and vitalizes expression and communication. As building blocks of the human soul, emotions generally display themselves in non- voluntary body reactions or verbal expressions which are generally the embodied expressions of the physical reactions of the body in a specific situation. Body organs such as ‘face’, ‘eyes’ or ‘heart’ are frequently used in idioms to transmit certain emotions. Although emotions are universal, there may be cultural and cognitive differences among the idiomatic expressions of languages. In other words, languages may use distinctive ways to express an emotion and body parts are one of these variants. It is the target of this study to make a comparison between the conceptualization preferences of idioms and emotions regarding parts of the body in Turkish and English.

Emotions in engineering education: A configurative meta‐synthesis systematic review

AbstractBackgroundThe study of emotions in engineering education (EEE) has increased in recent years, but this emerging, multidisciplinary body of research is dispersed and not well consolidated. This paper reports on the first systematic review of EEE research and scholarship.PurposeThe review aimed to critically assess how researchers and scholars in engineering education have conceptualized emotions and how those conceptualizations have been used to frame and conduct EEE research and scholarship.Scope/MethodThe systematic review followed the procedures of a configurative meta‐synthesis, mapping emotion theories and concepts, research purposes and methods, and citation patterns in the EEE literature. The review proceeded through five stages: (i) scoping and database searching; (ii) abstract screening, full text sifting, and full text review; (iii) pearling; (iv) scoping review, and (v) in‐depth analysis for the meta‐synthesis review. Two hundred and thirteen publications were included in the final analysis.ResultsThe results show that the EEE literature has not extensively engaged with the wide range of conceptualizations of emotion available in the educational, psychological, and sociological literature. Further, the focus on emotion often seems to have been unintentional and of secondary importance in studies whose primary goals were to study other phenomena.ConclusionsMore research adopting intentional, theorized approaches to emotions will be crucial in further developing the field. To do justice to complex emotional phenomena in teaching and learning, future EEE research will also need to engage a broader range of conceptualizations of emotion and research methods, drawing on diverse disciplinary traditions.

Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in Patients With Depression and Anxiety

ABSTRACTObjectiveTheoretical conceptualizations of emotion and affect regulation have a considerable common ground. However, mentalization theory considers the ability to regulate affects as being contingent on the ability to mentalize. The aim of the present study is to examine the association between emotion regulation and mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning, in a sample of patients with depression and/or anxiety.MethodsThe study used data from the TRAns‐diagnostic Cognitive behavioural Therapy versus standard cognitive behavioural therapy (TRACT‐RCT) trial. Patients with depression and/or anxiety (N = 291; 64.4% female; Mage = 32.2; SD = 11.0) completed the Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire (ERSQ) and the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ‐6). Correlation and regression analyses were performed to determine associations of the measures of ERSQ and RFQ‐6 in relation to the outcome variables, global well‐being (World Health Organization Well‐being Index; WHO‐5) and social functioning (Work and Social Adjustment Scale; WSAS).ResultsOverall, the patients had a reduced level of emotion regulation (MERSQ_Total = 1.77; SD = 0.59). However, only mildly impaired reflective functioning was found (MRFQ‐6 = 3.57; SD = 1.26). ERSQ correlated significantly with RFQ‐6 (r = −0.31), that is, more frequent use of emotion regulation strategies was associated with less hypomentalization. ERSQ was a stronger predictor of well‐being and social function than RFQ‐6.ConclusionIn patients with anxiety and/or depression, hypomentalization as measured by the RFQ‐6 is not a major problem, but emotion regulation is. It seems that these two, theoretically related constructs, do not necessarily co‐occur. Alternatively, the RFQ‐6 scale might not capture the mentalization construct in a valid way. Emotion regulation strategies are highly related to symptomatology; therefore, they are likely to be an important target for psychotherapy.

Toward an improved conceptualization of emotions in patients with cancer.

Cancer and its associated treatment is a major stressor, leading to emotions such as anxiety or depressive mood. Human emotions have developed through the course of evolution because they facilitate adaptation to important events, such as cancer and its associated treatment. On the other hand, emotions can be maladaptive and interfere with adaptation to cancer. Emotions are maladaptive if they are disproportionally severe or persistent, and if they interfere with functioning. We aim to expand the conceptualization of adaptive and maladaptive emotions in patients with cancer. We draw on major theories in the field of mental disorder and mental health, and apply these theories to conceptualize adaptive and maladaptive emotions in patients with cancer. (i) Maladaptive emotions have two essential features: mental dysfunction and patient harm. Maladaptive emotions are characterized by a network of strongly associated emotional symptoms, which may include cancer-related somatic symptoms. The dysfunctional symptom network is hypothesized to be the result of disturbance of life goal pursuit caused by cancer. (ii) Adaptive emotions have two essential features: ability to deal with cancer and functioning well. The ability to use emotions in an adaptive way depends on skills to recognize, express, and regulate emotions in a flexible manner. A secure attachment style facilitates adaptive emotional responses to cancer. The present conceptualization of adaptive and maladaptive emotions is expected to contribute to better understanding and management of emotions in patients with cancer.

The description of mourning in Anna Stanisławska’s autobiography: The context of early modern theory of emotion

Summary Anna Zbąska née Stanisławska, a lady of the Polish high aristocracy, wrote the story of her life in 1685 after the loss of her father, a divorce from her first and the deaths of her second and third husband, all of which she experienced in the course of approximately 16 years. She told her life as a narrative in lamentations, in a series of 77 dirges (treny) in which she mourned her beloved ones as well as her own – childless, fruitless – life. Though it has been frequently noted in recent research that the text is dominated by the expression of mourning, this central aspect has not been made a subject of a study in its own right. This article aims to examine the description of mourning by Stanisławska and her way of handling her afflictions by discussing them in the context of conceptualizations of emotions in the seventeenth century.

Spice up the moment: The influence of spicy taste on people's metaphorical perspectives on time.

Embodied cognition contends that sensorimotor experiences undergird cognitive processes. Three embodied cross-domain metaphorical mappings constitute quintessential illustrations: spatial navigation and orientation underpin the conceptualization of time and emotion and gustatory sensation underlies the formulation of emotion. Threading together these strands of insights, the present research consisted of three studies explored the potential influence of spicy taste on people's metaphorical perspectives on time. The results revealed a positive correlation between spicy taste and the ego-moving metaphor for time such that individuals who enjoyed spicy taste (Study 1) and who consumed spicy (vs. salty) snack (Study 2) exhibited a predilection for the ego-moving perspective when cognizing a temporally ambiguous event. Because both spicy taste and the ego-moving metaphor are associated with anger and approach motivation, the latter two were postulated to be related to the novel taste-time relationship. Corroborative evidence for the hypothesis was found, which indicated that spicy (vs. salty) intake elicited significantly stronger anger toward and significantly greater approach-motivated perception of a rescheduled temporal event (Study 3). Taken together, the current findings demonstrate that spicy taste may play a role in people's perspectives on the movement of events in time and highlight the involved embodied interrelation between language, emotion, and cognition.

Multimodal representations of LOVE and PASSION in Lithuanian graphic novel “Gertruda. Graphic diary of generation Y”, by G. JORD

ABSTRACT In this research we aim to analyse the multimodal representations of the concepts of LOVE and PASSION in Lithuanian graphic novel ‘Gertrūda’, by Gerda Jord. The multimodal approach, that combines textual, visual, and semiotic analysis is applied in the research. In the work of these researchers, the analysis of the conceptualisation of emotions is based on the explorations by cognitive linguistics. The analysis of the multimodal nature of graphic novels particularly as it relates to the portrayal of complex emotions such as LOVE and PASSION, remains relatively undeveloped. The research revealed that the source domains for LOVE expose concepts of CLOSENESS, UNITY, MORAL VIRTUE and for PASSION source domains encompass PRESSURE IN THE CONTAINER, CREATIVITY, PHYSICAL POWER, and HEAT of the SUN. The investigation scrutinises the intertextual, visual, and narrative elements present in ‘Gertruda.’ We explore how the characters’ interactions, visual symbolism, and narrative structure contribute to the representation of LOVE and PASSION within the context of a post-Soviet Lithuanian society. Additionally, we consider the socio-cultural and historical backdrop of Lithuania to provide a holistic understanding of how these emotions are intricately woven into the narrative fabric of the graphic novel.

Exploring Fear: Linguistic-Cultural and Pragmatic Insights from French Synonyms

This study delves into the linguistic-cultural and pragmatic dimensions of the French language, focusing on the concept of "Fear." Employing lexical-semantic analysis through distributive and component-contextual methods, the research aims to classify synonyms related to fear and analyze their semantic characteristics. Drawing from the works of renowned scholars in linguistics and emotion studies, the study addresses the unresolved issues surrounding the conceptualization and classification of emotions. The findings shed light on the linguistic nuances and cultural implications of fear expressions in French, offering valuable insights for cross-disciplinary research in linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and related fields. Highlights: French fear expressions analyzed: linguistic nuances and cultural connotations explored. Synonym classification and semantic analysis contribute to emotion and linguistic studies. Insights benefit linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and cross-cultural research disciplines. Keywords: fear, linguistic-cultural analysis, french language, lexical units, synonomic series

Evaluation of Disgust Proneness And Negative Emotional Schemas Effects on Different Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be defined with symptom dimensions such as contamination, responsibility for harm and mistakes, unacceptable thoughts, and symmetry as a heterogeneous disorder. Our study aimed to examine effects of disgust proneness (DP) and negative emotional schemas, which are assumed crucial for OCD symptom dimensions on these dimensions. Methods: 146 OCD patients evaluated in the study, completing the Dimensional Obsessions and Compulsions Scale (DOCS), Leahy Emotional Schema Scale-II (LESS-II), and Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised (DPSS-R) though stepwise regression analysis. Results: Our results demonstrated that the DPSS-disgust propensity (β=0.568) and LESS II-loss of control (β=0.174) subscale scores were the main predictors of the DOCS-contamination subscale score. But only, LESS II-loss of control subscale (β=0.448) was unique predictor of the DOCS-responsibility for harm and mistakes subscale score; LESS II-rumination (β=0.309), LESS II-incomprehensibility (β=0.253), and LESS II-low consensus (β=0.163) subscale scores were the main predictors of the DOCS-Unacceptable thoughts subscale score. LESS II-incomprehensibility (β=0.275) and LESS II-overly rational (β =0.210) subscale were main predictors of the DOCS-Symmetry subscale score. Conclusions: This study has important implications for the cognitive and emotional conceptualizations and enabling of different psychotherapeutic approaches to the OCD dimension. These findings could enlighten future research and potentially guide the development of the most targeted interventions in treatment for individuals with OCD.

Metaphorical Conceptualization of Positive and Negative Emotions in Italian

Metaphorical Conceptualization of Positive and Negative Emotions in Italian

Perspectives of Cultural Studies (Conceptualisation of Emotions in the Discourse of Cultural Studies)

The aim of this article is to conceptualise emotions in the discourse of cultural studies, which were initiated in the 1970s. American discourse focuses on the role of emotions in shaping individuality and subjectivity (emotional labour), while European discourse focuses on their historically and culturally conditioned constructs. Even though they have been regarded in academic discourse as opposed to reason, today it is believed that emotions determine cognitive processes, and cognitive processes can have an effect on emotions.
 The article discusses theoretical concepts related to emotions: biological determinism/ biological reductionism, socio-cultural constructivism and deconstructionism, affective turn, and culture of emotions.

Conceptualization of “happy-like” feelings in Japanese and its relevance to a semantic typology of emotion concepts

ABSTRACT Emotions play a crucial role in human lives, often influencing behaviour. Among others, the feeling expressed by the word happy in English has received particular attention. If, on the one hand, the concept seems basic and likely to exist across languages and cultures, on the other hand, cross-linguistic semantics has shown that even close equivalents in genetically related languages, such as the German glücklich or French heureux, do not exactly correspond in meaning. Although the cross-linguistic differences in the conceptualization of “happy-like” feelings have been emphasized, focus on the cross-linguistic commonalities is insufficient. This study focuses on Japanese “happy-like” concepts, namely ureshii, tanoshii and shiawaseda to examine the question: to what extent are the conceptualizations of “happy-like” feelings similar or different across languages? It describes the meanings of candidates for Japanese near-equivalents of happy in a way that is comparable to other languages by combining the findings from Japanese linguistic studies with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework. Though none of them exactly correspond to the English happy in meaning, investigating “happy-like” concepts from a broader perspective reveals the conceptualizations underlying these concepts in different languages. It implies that although “happy-like” concepts in different languages provide different conceptualizations of emotions, cross-linguistic commonalities may lie beneath them.

Translating emotions

Abstract This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. It aims to establish whether there are differences between translated texts and original texts in a given language as to how emotions are expressed and whether emotion conceptualization in the translated texts is closer to that of the source or the target language. To do so, the study focuses on one emotion in a specific language combination: the conceptual domain of anger in German and Spanish. In a first step, analysis of two large reference corpora provides a contrastive description of the concept anger as represented by prototypical emotion lexemes in both languages (Wut, Zorn and Ärger in German and ira, rabia, enojo in Spanish). Then, the parallel corpus COVALT is used to study three aspects of the expression of anger in Spanish translated texts: conceptual metaphor, physical effects and consequences of the emotion. Analysis of the use of conceptual metaphor shows that both source and target language preferences are present in the target texts. A more marked deviation from target language conventions can be observed in the translation of expressions referring to the physical effects or consequences of anger.

Conceptualization and Categorization of Emotions as a Way of Forming a National Picture of the World

Recently, in the humanities, there has been an increased interest in the study of the emotional sphere of a person and its role in everyday practical, cognitive, cognitive and communicative speech activities of people, in the formation and regulation of their behavior in society, which is reflected in numerous international conferences. on the issue of emotivity and the growing growth of scientific works: articles, monographs, dissertations and methodological manuals within the framework of the theory of ‘emotivism’ in psychology, sociology, ethnology, philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and other sciences. The aim of the study is a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic description of the emotives of joy in the English, Russian and Kyrgyz languages, their semantics and national specifics in the individual author's linguistic consciousness.