The Influence of Emotional State and Pictorial Cues on Perceptual Judgments

Conference · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:923508

Raddatz, Kimberly R; Werth, Abigail; Tran, Tuan Q

Perspective displays (e.g., CDTI) are commonly used as decision aids in environments characterized by periods of high emotional arousal (e.g., terrain enhanced primary flight displays). However, little attention has been devoted to understanding how emotional state, independently or in conjunction with other perceptual factors (e.g., pictorial depth cues), can impact perceptual judgments. Preliminary research suggests that induced emotional state (positive or negative) adversely impacts size comparisons in perspective displays (Tran & Raddatz, 2006). This study further investigated how size comparisons are affected by emotional state and pictorial depth cues while attenuating the limitations of the Tran & Raddatz (2006) study. Results confirmed that observers do make slower judgments under induced emotional state. However, observers under negative emotional state showed higher sensitivity (d’) and required more evidence to respond that a size difference exists (response bias) than observers under positive emotional state. Implications for display design and human performance are discussed.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 923508
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-07-12813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
DESIGN
Emotion Arousal
HUMAN FACTORS
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
Judgment
PERFORMANCE
Perspective Display
SENSITIVITY