Abstract
The looming vulnerability model (LVM) expects that a person’s perceptions and simulations of rapid gains by dynamic growing threats have powerful effects on affective responses. It isn’t only the potential threat stimulus that influences affect but the dynamics of the motion of the threat and its rapid gains that also profoundly affects how the person emotionally responds. We presented a small amount of this evidence from studies using experimental designs in Chap. 5. We will now present a much more extensive body of literature that supports these expectations of the LVM. This evidence includes two broad classes of studies. These include: (1) a few studies in which the dynamism and movement of stimuli was varied in ways that did not directly menace or approach the perceiver and (2) studies that have manipulated such perceptions in ways that could directly menace or approach the perceiver.
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Riskind, J.H., Rector, N.A. (2018). Experimental Studies Confirming the Emotional Impact of Dynamic Movement and Looming Manipulations. In: Looming Vulnerability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8782-5_7
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