Hi,
I'm planning my dissertation now but I'm looking for a cognitive measure of emotion. I'm manipulating sadness and anger and I already have a self-report measure of emotion but I feel that it would be best to have a cognitive measurement too.
I don't have access to physiological measurements so ideas such as emotional stroop task or similar would be appreciated, e.g. something that relies on reaction times to emotional words or remembering certain emotional words for recall afterwards. I haven't had much luck in finding these things in articles. Thanks!
Hi Cara
Your question is a little confusing. If you mean cognitive emotion regulation then the LEAS (levels of emotional awareness scale) and the CERQ (cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire) are in use. The CERQ is a self-report and easy to use. IF this reply answers your question, then you can request use of CERQ from scientists at Leiden University via the link below:
http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/psychology/organisation/clinical/research/instruments/cognitive-emotion-regulation-questionnaire-cerq.html
Good luck!
Melanie
A cognitive measure of affect? Presumably you mean something performance-based. Maybe your best bet would be an IAT measure. The attached article reports on exactly such a measure of anger & sadness. You should contact the authors directly and ask for copies/instructions.
Thanks very much for both your help, I really appreciate it. I may end up using the IAT if I can get in contact with the author.
Another possible task along the lines of IAT is a dot probe task, where a dot is hidden behind one of two pictures depicting different emotions (say one reflecting positive affect and one reflecting negative affect). Participants are asked to hit a key as soon as they see the dot. The idea is that participants will focus more on the picture that reflect their emotional goals so RT for that affect will be shorter. You can read more in Mather & Carstensen,2005- age related positivity effect studies use this method often.
My supervisor has suggested not doing IAT as he mentioned it can be difficult to analyse.. so I'm up for other suggestions which can measure implicit or explicit anger and sadness. Thanks for the suggestions so far
(Don't buck your supervisor, but IATs are not that hard to analyze. Yes, you get lots and lots of data points per person, but a spreadsheet will enable you quickly to boil them down to a few key numbers. Maybe he was concerned about people responding randomly?)
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