Re: a random citation

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Constance,

This is new to me. I am copying the TC list to let them become aware 
of this study. This definitely has impact for cognition modelling. It 
occurs to me, with my background in advertising art direction, that 
this has been known intuitively, and objectively in the sense that 
eliciting a positive impression is the underlying rationale for such 
tools as focus groups and other marketing research, but this is the 
first I've heard of academic studies documenting the aspect of 
"secondary" emotions. I highlight secondary since it plays into the 
structure we have adopted for developing HumanML.

Thanks, again,
Rex

>Hi Rex,
>
>I was just digging through NLM's biblio. database looking for 
>research on the public health impact of spam pharma. messages (for 
>another project) and came upon the following citation which seemed 
>of possible interest for HM...viz., (special?) value of rendering 
>secondary emotions in machine-readable format.  Could provide basis 
>for filtering, no?, even based on crude distinction between 
>presence/absence of secondary emot. content.
>
>I've pasted in the abstract and citation from PubMed below.
>
>Constance
>
>Vaes J, Paladino MP, Leyens JP.
>
>The lost e-mail: prosocial reactions induced by uniquely human 
>emotions. (Br J Soc Psychol. 2002 Dec;41(Pt 4):521-34.)
>
>Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 
>jeroen.vaes@unipd.it
>
>Leyens et al. (2000) have developed a theory on the role of 
>secondary emotions as a uniquely human characteristic. An 
>implication of this theory is that the use of secondary emotions, 
>compared to primary emotions, will increase prosocial intentions and 
>behaviours. Given the uniquely human character of secondary 
>emotions, people who express themselves in terms of these emotions 
>are tacitly seen as more human. As a consequence, these individuals 
>share the human nature that we usually reserve for our own group or 
>ourselves and will therefore evoke prosocial attitudes and 
>behaviours. In two studies, French-speaking participants were 
>confronted with an e-mail that started with either a primary or a 
>secondary emotion. As expected, secondary emotion messages, compared 
>to primary emotion messages, provoked stronger intentions to help 
>the sender (Expt 1) and elicited 'nicer' responses (Expt 2). 
>Implications for intergroup relations are discussed.
>
>PMID: 12593751 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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