Jinwoo Lee
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For my Post-MS research project in SNU Connectome Lab (PI: Jiook Cha, PhD), I applied for the Research Grant for Innovative VR Application ($14,500) in Seoul National University, and my research proposal was accepted! Based on this grant, I am going to conduct new research project that explores the source of individual differences in subjective feelings to ambivalent contexts.
This project extended my master thesis that characterized awe as an ambivalent affect. In this previous project, I observed greater individual variability in self-reported duration and length of ambivalent feelings and their neural representations during VR movie watching than simply positive and negative ones. Although I could discover that this variability could predict one’s subjective emotional intensity toward movie, I didn’t get as far as identifying the source of such individual differences.
Inspired by several emotion theories (e.g., somatic marker theory and psychological construct theory), I hypothesized that one’s interoceptive processing and affective word repositories might drive individual differences in subjective feelings to ambivalent contexts. In this research project, it is really crucial to provide naturalistic ambivalent situations to participants, given the limited ecological validity of traditional experimental tasks (e.g., mixed facial recognition task). Combining the VR movie watching, EEG/ECG recording, and real-time continuous affect rating schemes, I will try to identify how our brain, body, and mind generates distinct subjective feelings to affectively conflicting situations as we experience everyday in our daily lives. Stay tuned!
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