Emotion and Adaptation

Nationality: American Education: Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality... Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology â€¦ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together Start by marking â€œAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Otherâ€ as Want to Read: ... Unfortunately I am no closer to telling you why we expect more from technology & less from each other than I was before I read this book. One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that, even though I was really interested in these â€¦

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

The screen shows a bag of popcorn on a table. Several kernels have fallen from the bag. An adult, watching with preschool children, asks a question about the picture: "What will happen to the popcorn if I pick up the television set and turn it upside down?" A lot of kids say that the rest of the popcorn will spill out of the bag. While interesting, this mistake is not really surprising. Children often take television literally. They'll soon be older, and will be wise enough to know better.

Media Equation 研究の背景と動向

Artificial intelligence (AI) and people’s interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots, and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication theory that hav...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444819858691

Artificial intelligence and communication: A Human–Machine Communication research agenda:

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns. By John G. Geer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 218p. $47.50 cloth, $19.00 paper. This book begins with a series of quotes from scholars and media pundits arguing that negative political advertisements are uncivil, mean-spirited, emotion-laden distortions of the truth, which not only smear their target but also mislead voters and undermine the political process itself; in short, they are the scourge of democracy. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. But John Geer asks us to reject the starting assumption that attack ads are bad. In fact, he argues that democracy requires candidates to attack each other. His argument is simple but powerful: All advertisements, by their very nature, exaggerate the truth. But this point applies equally to negative and positive ads. We cannot expect political candidates to fairly discuss their weaknesses along with their strengths. That is the role of the opposition, and it can only be done by offering criticisms of the opposing candidate or party. The real questions, then, are 1) whether negative ads perform their role effectively, or instead distort and confuse the vote choices citizens must make; and 2) whether attack ads, in performing a role that seems to be required of them, nonetheless undermine the democratic political system of which they are a crucial part.

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns

Research on the truth effect has demonstrated that statements are rated as more credible when they are repeatedly presented. However, current research indicates that there are limits to the truth effect and that too many repetitions can decrease message credibility. This study investigates whether message negativity contributes to this boomerang effect and whether the interaction of credibility and negativity influences political attitudes. These assumptions were tested in an online experiment in which the frequency of exposure to political campaign posters and message negativity were manipulated. The results show that negativity on political campaign posters functions as a crucial moderator, especially in combination with high-frequency exposure. Repeatedly presented negative posters resulted in a more negative attitude toward the presented political issue, which was mediated by a decrease in credibility judgments.

Effects of Message Repetition and Negativity on Credibility Judgments and Political Attitudes

Die Forschung zu Framing-Effekten auf Einstellungen fokussierte bisher kognitive Wirkungsprozesse. Medien-Frames regen aber nicht nur kognitive Urteilsprozesse an, sondern vermögen auch Emotionen auszulösen, die Implikationen für die Meinungsbildung haben. Im Beitrag wird auf Basis von Emotionsund Framing-Theorien ein integratives Modell kognitiver und emotionaler Wirkungsprozesse entwickelt. Das Modell basiert auf der Grundidee, dass aus der kognitiven Verarbeitung von Medien-Frames Emotionen resultieren können, welche die Einstellungen der Rezipienten beeinflussen.

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Emotionale Framing-Effekte auf Einstellungen: Ein integratives Modell

This study investigates the interplay between online and face-to-face (FtF) feedback on stress during an important life event. We present data on a two-month, six-wave longitudinal study of 468 Chilean adolescents across three important stages of a competitive national university selection test (Prueba de Seleccion Universitaria [PSU]) to assess longitudinal and reciprocal relationships. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) showed that online feedback had a small effect in decreasing stress during the three short-termed waves, before and after the three main events of the test: test taking, test scores, and final selection. No intrapersonal effects were found for FtF feedback on stress, and vice versa. At the interpersonal level, only feedback variables were related. Results suggest that prosocial replies on social media may slightly help to downregulate stress from important life events at the intrapersonal level, an effect which appears to be short-lived (e.g., only a few days), rather than long-lived (e.g., three weeks).

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Don’t Stress Me Now: Assessing the Regulatory Impact of Face-to-Face and Online Feedback Prosociality on Stress During an Important Life Event

Videos presented on social media platforms are frequently watched because people find them entertaining. However, videos on social media platforms are often presented together with user comments containing information about how entertaining previous viewers found them to be. This social information may affect people’s entertainment experiences. The goal of the present study was to explore how user comments affect viewers’ hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences in response to online videos. The results of an online experiment (N = 203) showed that user comments in which previous viewers of a video indicate that they enjoyed or appreciated the video increase the hedonic entertainment experiences of new viewers. Viewers’ eudaimonic entertainment experiences were unaffected by user comments. These findings show that entertainment experiences do not emerge in response to online videos alone. Instead, they also depend on information about the entertainment experiences of previous viewers.

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The effects of user comments on hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences when watching online videos

Die wirkungsorientierte Framing-Forschung operiert oft mit idealtypischen Medienstimuli. Auch Ansatze zu emotionalen Wirkungen von Medien-Frames fokussieren idealtypische Medien-Frames, die intensive emotionale Reaktionen nach sich ziehen sollten. Die aus dem Austauschprozess von Kommunikatoren und Journalisten hervorgehenden Medien-Frames durften indessen oft keinen idealtypischen Aufbau aufweisen. Im Beitrag wird diskutiert, wie von Kommunikatoren und Journalisten erzeugte Frames aufgebaut sind und welche emotionalen Wirkungen derartige Frames nach sich ziehen.

Rinaldo Kühne

Papers

Effects of Message Repetition and Negativity on Credibility Judgments and Political Attitudes

Emotionale Framing-Effekte auf Einstellungen: Ein integratives Modell

Don’t Stress Me Now: Assessing the Regulatory Impact of Face-to-Face and Online Feedback Prosociality on Stress During an Important Life Event

The effects of user comments on hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences when watching online videos

Emotionale Wirkungen von Kommunikatoren- und Journalisten-Frames