Link to "the third element" series
Experimental variables
emotion, perception, and contradiction
Experimental question
Can the changing, contradictory nature of our emotionally-informed experience be made more tolerable by awareness of its shifting nature?
Experimental design
Readers were presented with short, narrative poems relaying a vignette of experience, as perceived by the author. These poems reflected the contradictory nature of any individual’s changing perception informed by emotion.
Experimental variables
emotion, perception, and contradiction
Experimental question
Can the changing, contradictory nature of our emotionally-informed experience be made more tolerable by awareness of its shifting nature?
Experimental design
Readers were presented with short, narrative poems relaying a vignette of experience, as perceived by the author. These poems reflected the contradictory nature of any individual’s changing perception informed by emotion.