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100			_aNerantzaki Katerina
240			_aThe American Journal of Psychology _hSpring 2024
245			_aCognitive conflict as an underlying mechanism in the arousal of epistemic emotions/ _cKaterina Nerantzaki, Panayiota Metallidou, Anastasia Efklides
300			_aVol. 137 (1) pages 53-70: _bIllustrations: _c28 cm
500			_aThe present study aimed to test the assumption that cognitive conflict constitutes part of the mechanism underlying the arousal of epistemic emotions. Specifically, the study investigated potential activation of epistemic emotions (surprise, confusion, curiosity, and wonder) due to cognitive conflict. One hundred fifty-two undergraduate students participated in the study. The tasks were 12 decision-making scenarios depicting dilemmas faced by autonomous (self-driving) cars, such as crossing over or avoiding an obstacle, that may have implications for pedestrians crossing a road. The tasks differed in the implications of the conflicting alternatives. Participants were asked to choose 1 of 2 response options in each scenario and then report, on a 4-point Likert-type scale, their feelings of difficulty and confidence regarding their response and their epistemic emotions. Scenarios posing high cognitive conflict resulted in increased levels of epistemic emotions compared with easily resolved conflicting scenarios. However, the various epistemic emotions followed different patterns of arousal, with confusion being the most affected emotion and surprise being the least affected one.
650			_acognitive conflict, confusion, curiosity, epistemic emotions, surprise, wonder
700			_aMetallidou Panayiota, Efklides Anastasia
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