Research Seminar
Emotional granularity and well-beingYasemin ErbasKU Leuven | |
| Abstract: | Emotional granularity refers to the ability to differentiate emotions in subjective experience. It is the tendency to characterize one’s feelings with specificity, using discrete emotion labels rather than referring to global feeling states (Barrett et al., 2001). Although previous research has shown that a high level of emotional granularity is positively related to some aspects of well-being, basic knowledge about the subject is missing. Therefore, the goal of the current project is to further investigate the concept of emotional granularity and its basic correlates. In four studies, we investigated how emotional granularity is related to personality traits, well-being, motivational processes and working memory. Results support the notion that people who exhibit high levels of granularity score higher on indices of well-being and vice versa, reveal that emotional granularity is inversely related to alexithymia, and hint at some of the processes associated with high or low granularity in terms of motivational approach/avoidance of emotion and working memory. |
| Date: | Tue Feb 14, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
| Place: | room 01.07 (Department of Psychology, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven) |