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Surprise
About: Surprise is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4371 publications have been published within this topic receiving 99386 citations.
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TL;DR: Today much of the work once done by human muscle and brains is being delegated to machines, and people in all walkd of life are asking: What human abilities are irreplaceble?
Abstract: Today much of the work once done by human muscle and brains is being delegated to machines, and people in all walkd of life asking: What human abilities are irreplaceble? What can machines not do? It may surprise the reader to learn that, whereas the first question has no definite answer, the second has a straightforward mathematical solution.
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TL;DR: This paper found that experiencing emotions that reflect uncertainty about the world (e.g., worry, surprise, fear, hope) compared to certain emotions would activate the need to imbue the world with order and structure across a wide range of compensatory measures.
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TL;DR: The authors develop a relevance-theoretic pragmatic account of the full range of interpretations and show how it is able to explain interpretive disparities between and-utterances and the corresponding cases with but.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between surprise and the overall liking of the products, the emotions associated with surprise, and the long-term effects of surprise and suggest that the liking for surprising products may be the composite effect of a decreased liking due to unfamiliar characteristics and an increased liking resulting from positive emotions following surprise.
Abstract: When people encounter products with visual-tactual incongruities, they are likely to be surprised because the product feels different than expected. In this paper, we investigate (1) the relationship between surprise and the overall liking of the products, (2) the emotions associated with surprise, and (3) the long-term effects of surprise. We created products that were similar in visual appearance but that differed in their tactual characteristics. Participants evaluated the same products at three different points in time. Surprise was often followed by the emotions interest, fascination, amusement, confusion, indignation and irritation. We suggest that the liking for surprising products may be the composite effect of a decreased liking due to unfamiliar characteristics and increased liking due to positive emotions following surprise. Although the effect of surprise diminishes over time, it persists and can be demonstrated at multiple occasions.
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TL;DR: The hypothesis is advanced that the essential startle disease could result from a functional hyperexcitability of the brain stem structures responsible for the normal startle reaction.
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