MOSCOW, 14 APR — RIA Novosti. Russian scientists have found that feelings touching different textures affect the appearance of certain emotions. The authors of the study believe that its results will help to further explore the perception of emotion via touch subjects. The results were published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.
Researchers at the Moscow state psychological-pedagogical University (MGPPU) and the National research Institute “Higher school of Economics” failed to show that the different textures are actually associated with different categories of emotions. For example, soft fur and velvet — happy, smooth and cold marble and glass — with sadness, the rough metal brush — with fear and anger, sticky clay and toy-kids — with disgust and surprise.
In the course of work, according to experts, has managed to create a set of textures that can be further used to study the perception of emotions through touch.
According to her, in the main study involved 108 patients who were treated with closed eyes to feel the different textures and to rate on a scale from 0 to 5 how much they is associated with six basic emotions: joy, fear, anger, surprise, sadness and disgust.
Scientists also found out that the individual level of alexithymia (difficulties in the transmission of verbal description of your condition) is associated with estimates of the intensity of some emotions: anger, sadness and disgust.
“We have shown that individual peculiarities of perception of their emotions can be linked to how strong the negative emotions associated with textures,” said Korolkova.
the Scientists noted that earlier, from the perspective of psychology was studied only how different materials are pleasant or unpleasant to the touch. However, it was not clear whether a more differentiated way to describe the emotions that arise from touching the textures.
In the future, researchers would like to clarify what properties of materials explain their Association with categories of emotions: softness and hardness, smoothness and elasticity and so on. The plans of scientists to find whether the perception of the content Association with the typical items that are made.
