Emotions in Sports: The Effects of Transference Type and Context on Emotion Elicitation.

Timmermans, E.J. (2011) Emotions in Sports: The Effects of Transference Type and Context on Emotion Elicitation. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.

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Abstract

It has been suggested that there are two processes concerning how emotions are transmitted from one person to another and how people can catch emotions: 1) cognitive processes of empathy and 2) the process of emotional contagion. The former process proposes that emotions can be elicited by using narratives and the latter process proposes that emotions can be evoked by observing prototypical expressions of emotions. The primary aim was to examine the effect of type of emotion transference and context on the extent of emotion elicitation by using films and photographs. A secondary aim was to develop a stimuli-set that reliably elicit positive, negative and neutral affect. Two experiments were performed in which diverse selected general and sport-related stimuli were respectively shown to 117 and 29 subjects. The most important finding was that narratives transfer emotions more powerfully than prototypical expressions of emotions. Based on the intensity and discreteness of subjects' responses to each stimuli, 54 unique stimuli were found to successfully elicit their target valence. In future research, these stimuli could be used to investigate the effects of emotions on components of sport performance.

Item Type:	Thesis (Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Pepping, Dr. G.-J.
Faculty:	Medical Sciences
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2020 10:45
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2020 10:45
URI:	https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/634

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