Two for the seesaw: requester and requested

• Authors: Dariusz Dolinski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Research on emotion conducted so far has usually ignored situations where the person experiences a certain emotion, but where the external stimulus that evoked and upholds this emotion suddenly disappears. This kind of situation, however, is relatively common in everyday life. This article attempts to recognize certain consequences of those conditions under which the stimuli justifying our experience of such emotional states as fear or anxiety suddenly disappear. Research done to data by the author and his colleagues indicates increased compliance of the subject when addressed with various requests, commands or suggestion in the situation termed here “emotional see-saw” or “fear-then-relief”.

Keywords

EN

Social influence; fear-then-relief; emotion

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 105-113

Contributors

author

Dariusz Dolinski

• The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw Faculty, ul. Grunwaldzka 98, 50-357 Wroclaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-011-0015-9