Studies // Cited work
The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiology
Mauss, I. B., Levenson, R. W., McCarter, L., Wilhelm, F. H., & Gross, J. J. (2005). The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiology.
Level D Experiment doi:10.1037/1528-3542.5.2.175
What this study supports
Supports the claim that experience and behaviour were highly associated while physiology was only modestly associated with both, and that amusement intensity, but not sadness intensity, went with greater behaviour–physiology coherence. A laboratory induction whose coherence estimates are correlational and have no comparison condition, so it is graded D rather than B.
- Who was studied
- Participants whose experience, facial behaviour and peripheral physiology were recorded second by second during a film inducing amusement and sadness; the abstract does not state the sample size.
- Design
- Experiment
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
Emotional responses are only partly coherent across systems: during a film inducing amusement and sadness, experience and facial behaviour were highly associated but physiology only modestly, and experiential, physiological and behavioural measures carry unique variance.
- Scope
- Laboratory emotion induction and research measures of emotion in general.
- Caveat
- One laboratory film study and a narrative review; coherence can differ with emotion and intensity, as the difference between amusement and sadness already shows.
Last reviewed · Review due · measuring-response-coherence-limited