Modeling crowd emotion from emergent event video

The essay deals with the criterion and the distortion of making democratic political culture the basis of the democratic political community in the context of the traumatic historical experiences. The historical traumas of the communities may lead to a fluid or vacuum situation, a non-democratic consolidation, a fall back to personal power, even political hysteria if the assessment of the situation is wrong and bad aims are chosen; to a situation that could bring almost all the countries of Europe to the brink of disaster, and only those countries that could recall democratic political culture and education will be able to keep up with the rise of democratic crowd emotion. A comparative European research into the ways and means of processing collective traumas is not only an area that might shed new light on political phenomena, but a requirement of democratic functioning.

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Differential hemispheric and visual stream contributions to ensemble coding of crowd emotion

Nature Human Behaviour ◽

10.1038/s41562-017-0225-z ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (11) ◽

pp. 828-842 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Hee Yeon Im ◽

Daniel N. Albohn ◽

Troy G. Steiner ◽

Cody A. Cushing ◽

Reginald B. Adams ◽

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Keyword(s):

Visual Stream ◽

Ensemble Coding ◽

Crowd Emotion

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The Crowd Emotion Amplification Effect

10.31219/osf.io/cn6qy ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amit Goldenberg ◽

Erika Weisz ◽

Timothy Sweeny ◽

Mina Cikara ◽

James Gross

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Attentional Bias ◽

Exposure Time ◽

Emotional Response ◽

Public Speaking ◽

Effect Study ◽

Time Study ◽

Emotional Faces ◽

Amplification Effect ◽

Crowd Emotion

How do people go about reading a room or taking the temperature of a crowd? When people catch a brief glimpse of an array of faces, they can only focus their attention on some of the faces. We propose that perceivers preferentially attend to faces exhibiting strong emotions, and that this generates a crowd emotion amplification effect—estimating a crowd’s average emotional response as more extreme than it is. Study 1 (N = 50) documents the crowd amplification effect. Study 2 (N = 50) replicates the effect even when we increase exposure time. Study 3 (N = 50) uses eye-tracking to show that attentional bias to emotional faces drives amplification. These findings have important implications for many domains in which individuals have to make snap judgments regarding a crowd’s emotionality, from public speaking to controlling crowds.

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