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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Emot Rev. 2014 Jan 9;6(2):160–174. doi: 10.1177/1754073913512519

Figure 3. Relating classification errors to experienced affect.

Figure 3

Scatterplots depicting the relationship between the number of errors made in pattern classification and the subjective experience of emotion for 21 pairwise combinations of seven distinct emotional states (Kragel & LaBar, 2013). The number of errors in classifying autonomic response patterns decreases with Euclidean distance in an affective space created using the experience of categorical items (e.g. ‘fear’, ‘anger’, ‘sadness’; white circles in right panel) but not in a space constructed using dimensional items of valence and arousal (left panel). Adapted from “Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions,” by P. A. Kragel & K. S. LaBar, Emotion, 13, in press. Copyright 2013 by the American Psychological Association. Adapted with permission.