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“That feels deep!”: Feelings of being moved play a role in perceptions of depth and profundity (introducing: the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)
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Scale Study 1 - Constructing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS) through Exploratory Factor Analysis
In this study, our goal was to construct a measure of people’s tendency to be moved (or touched) – the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS) – and to inve...
Scale Study 2 - Confirmatory factor analysis of the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS)
In Pilot Study 1, we used Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to design the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS). The full structure (three factors) of the...
Scale Study 3 - Validation of the Geneva Sentimentality Scale
In Pilot Study 2, we saw that the GSS reliably predicted how easily participants were moved by a given stimulus. In Pilot Study 3, we investigate to w...
Study 1 - Sentimentality and Faith in Intuition as predictors of feelings of profundity
In Pilot Studies 1 and 2, we developed the Geneva Sentimentality Scale (GSS) to measure participants' disposition to feel moved. It is now time to use...
Study 2 - Comparing emotional states as predictors of feelings of profundity
In Study 1, we found that perceptions of pseudo-profound sentences as ‘moving’ predicted participants’ ratings of profundity, and that these perceptio...
Study 3a - Comparing emotional dispositions as predictors of feelings of profundity
In Studies 1 and 2, we found that participants’ disposition to feel moved/touched predicted participants’ ratings of profundity. This suggests that fe...
Study 3b - Comparing emotional dispositions as predictors of feelings of profundity
In Studies 1 and 2, we found that participants’ disposition to feel moved/touched predicted participants’ ratings of profundity. This suggests that fe...
Study 4 - The impact of moving music on ratings of profundity
In Studies 1 to 3, we found that participants’ feelings of being moved and their disposition to feel moved was a strong predictor of their feelings of...
Pilot study for Study 5
To determine whether presenting participant with the identity of statements’ authors would actually influence their judgments of profundity, we conduc...
Study 5 - Manipulating depth and its impact on feelings of being moved
In Study 4, we found that inducing feelings of being moved led participants to judge statements more ‘profound’. This suggests that the relationship b...
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