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Topolinski, Sascha ORCID: 0000-0001-9295-3463 and Boecker, Lea ORCID: 0000-0001-6180-1862 (2016). Minimal Conditions of Motor Inductions of Approach-Avoidance States: The Case of Oral Movements. J. Exp. Psychol.-Gen., 145 (12). S. 1589 - 1604. WASHINGTON: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. ISSN 1939-2222

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Abstract

The minimal conditions to elicit affective responses via approach-avoidance movements were explored by using oral movements (total N = 1,363). To induce oral movements, words were construed whose consonants (and vowels) wandered either from front to back of the mouth (e.g., PEKA, inward, like swallowing, approach) or from back to front (e.g., KEPA, outward, like spitting, avoidance). Participants preferred inward over outward consonant wanderings when reading only 2 phonemes (e.g., PEKA vs. KEPA), single letters (e.g., PK vs. KP), and even when only listening to a speaker uttering such stimuli (Experiments 1-4). Vowel wanderings had no systematic effect. The larger the consonantal inward and outward jumps, irrespective from where they started in the mouth, the stronger was their affective impact (Experiments 6-7). Visual presentation of words generally evoked stronger in-out effects than listening to a speaker uttering the words, which speaks against a sound symbolism explanation. Informing theorizing also on the much more common manual approach-avoidance inductions, these findings show that approach-avoidance movements can elicit affect by activating only the starting and ending point of a spatial movement gradient, even involving differing muscles for these spots, respectively. Also, the present findings imply that the magnitude of the distance of the spatial approach-avoidance gradient matters (the larger the distance, the larger the affective response), and that such effects can be induced by mere observation (by only listening to a speaker).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Topolinski, Sascha UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9295-3463 UNSPECIFIED Boecker, Lea UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6180-1862 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-254166
DOI:	10.1037/xge0000217
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Psychol.-Gen.
Volume:	145
Number:	12
Page Range:	S. 1589 - 1604
Date:	2016
Publisher:	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1939-2222
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language AFFECTIVE CONSEQUENCES; PROCESSING FLUENCY; EMBODIED COGNITION; ARTICULATE SOUNDS; STATISTICAL POWER; BRAND NAMES; ARM FLEXION; BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE; IMPLICIT Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25416