III. This part of the work was an attempt to estimate the average
time-interval in which feeling-tones develop, and what influences other
feelings given simultaneously or immediately beforehand have upon the
time-development of the feeling-tone in question. Will certain feelings
hasten and others retard a third feeling whose character remains
unchanged when it crosses the limen of awareness? Does the feeling, for
example, aroused by contact with a soft, soothing, yielding tactual
surface, put one in such a state that he will more or less quickly
obtain pleasure from the visual impression coming from a soft rich
red color? What effect will a feeling already aroused by a low tone
have upon the time development of the feeling one gets from looking
at a deep green color? Are there, again, pleasant feelings of certain
dimensions which will be hastened by other feelings, and still others
which, by the same means, will be retarded? If so, under what general
principle do they seem to fall?
Here the time-development of a certain feeling-tone is taken when
there are no other influencing factors. Then the comparison of this
rate is made with the later reported time-interval when that feeling,
again aroused, has been immediately preceded or accompanied by a
feeling-tone from another source of stimulation. Here also feelings
for colors presented in a frame, without any special suggestion of
form in connection with them, were in like manner compared as to
their time-development with the affective states arising from those
same colors presented again enclosed in cardboard frames of special
character. Some of these forms were very pleasing, such as upright
ovals, small circles, etc., while others, frames cut purposely into
irregular shapes, were to most observers decidedly unpleasant.
* * * * *
IV. Here complex feeling-states were in question, and evidence was
sought as to how much could be detected here that would tend to
substantiate or to call in question what seemed to be the fundamental
principles of feeling-relations where the states are very simple.
Further complications, such as three and even more stimulations at
once, were tested. After this, feelings aroused by looking at pictures
of statues were studied and described as accurately as possible. "Perry
Pictures" were used. _Dying Alexander_, _Venus of Milo_, the _Dying
Gladiator_, the _Laocoön_ group, and _Apollo Belvedere_, served to
introduce sufficient variety. Then copies of these same statues were
cut out from the card and presented to the subject with the same colors
before studied used as background. These were allowed to play their
part in the feeling aroused therefrom.
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