scholarly journals A Lifelogging Platform Towards Detecting Negative Emotions in Everyday Life using Wearable Devices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Dobbins ◽  
Stephen Fairclough ◽  
Paulo Lisboa ◽  
Felix Fernando Gonzalez Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Wearable Devices

scholarly journals The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762199520
Author(s):  
Gregory John Depow ◽  
Zoë Francis ◽  
Michael Inzlicht
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Trait Empathy

We used experience sampling to examine perceptions of empathy in the everyday lives of a group of 246 U.S. adults who were quota sampled to represent the population on key demographics. Participants reported an average of about nine opportunities to empathize per day; these experiences were positively associated with prosocial behavior, a relationship not found with trait measures. Although much of the literature focuses on the distress of strangers, in everyday life, people mostly empathize with very close others, and they empathize with positive emotions 3 times as frequently as with negative emotions. Although trait empathy was negatively associated only with well-being, empathy in daily life was generally associated with increased well-being. Theoretically distinct components of empathy—emotion sharing, perspective taking, and compassion—typically co-occur in everyday empathy experiences. Finally, empathy in everyday life was higher for women and the religious but not significantly lower for conservatives and the wealthy.

scholarly journals The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory John Depow ◽  
Zoë Lynn Francis ◽  
Michael Inzlicht
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Trait Empathy

We used experience-sampling to examine perceptions of empathy in the everyday lives of a group of 246 U.S. adults, quota-sampled to represent the population on key demographics. Participants reported an average of about 9 opportunities to empathize per day, with these experiences being positively associated with prosocial behaviour; a relationship not found with trait measures. While much of the literature focuses on the distress of strangers, in everyday life, people mostly empathize with very close others; and they empathize with positive emotions three times as frequently as with negative emotions. Though trait empathy was only negatively associated with well-being, empathy in daily life was generally associated with increased well-being. Theoretically distinct components of empathy—emotion sharing, perspective taking, and compassion—typically co-occur in everyday empathy experiences. Finally, empathy in everyday life was higher for women and the religious, but not significantly lower for conservatives or the wealthy.

Habitual Use of Cognitive Reappraisal Is Associated With Decreased Amplitude of the Late Positive Potential (LPP) Elicited by Threatening Pictures

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil R. Harrison ◽  
Philippe Chassy
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Late Positive Potential ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Down Regulation ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. In contrast to our knowledge about instructed emotion regulation, rather little is known about the effects of habitual (or “spontaneous”) emotion regulation on neural processing. We analyzed the relationship between everyday use of cognitive reappraisal (measured by the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, ERQ-R), and the amplitude of the late positive potential (LPP), which is sensitive to down-regulation of negative emotions via reappraisal. Participants viewed a series of neutral and threatening images, and rated them for level of threat. We found increased LPP amplitude for threatening compared to neutral pictures between 500 and 1,500 ms. Crucially, we found smaller LPP amplitudes to threatening versus neutral pictures for participants who used reappraisal more often in everyday life. This relationship between LPP amplitude and the ERQ-R was observed in the 1,000–1,500 ms interval of the LPP, over right centro-parietal electrodes. The current findings indicate that habitual tendency to use reappraisal is associated with reduced amplitude of the LPP in response to threatening pictures, in the absence of any explicit instruction to regulate emotions.

scholarly journals Understanding the Link Between Discrete Negative Emotions and Empathic Accuracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 331-331
Author(s):  
Denis Gerstorf ◽  
Oliver Schilling ◽  
Martin Katzorreck ◽  
Anna Lücke ◽  
Ute Kunzmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
Discrete Emotions ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Discrete Emotion ◽  
Accuracy Test ◽  
Negative Film

Abstract Extant theories have suggested that negative emotions generally harm cognitive processes. However, adopting a discrete emotion perspective, in this study, we predicted that only anger and fear but not sadness should be negatively associated with empathic accuracy, a process that has been shown to be cognitively highly demanding. Over 100 participants (Mage = 66.66 years, SDage = 1.00) reported their emotional reactions in response to a negative film in the laboratory, documented their everyday momentary emotions six times a day over seven consecutive days, and completed a film-based empathic accuracy test. Initial findings suggest that only fear but not anger or sadness was related to empathic accuracy. More specifically, high levels of fear both in the laboratory and in everyday life predicted low empathic accuracy. This pattern of findings will be discussed in the context of discrete emotions theories.

An Exploration of Fall-Down Detection by Smart Wristband

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 805-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Yuan Li ◽  
An Yu Ying ◽  
Ming Min Yuan ◽  
Hong Shen ◽  
Tian Zhou Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Communication Interface ◽  
Interactive Interface ◽  
Smart Wearable ◽  
Novel Algorithm

Smart wristband has recently emerged as one of the most popular smart wearable devices. With the help of smart wristbands, we can easily gather and record the user's data of everyday life including exercising, sleeping, diet, etc. In this work, we explore the feature of falls of the old and redesign the smart wristband to detect their movement. We propose a novel algorithm to judge whether he/she stops in a sudden, then produce vibrations through the man-machine interactive interface that provided by the smart wristband. The wearer can judge whether it is misjudged if he is still in conscious, if so he can press a button to stop the shaking or the wristband will give an alarm through communication interface to the medical care center.

scholarly journals Woman’s Face of City Beauty, or How Tourists are Feeling in a Tourist Destination

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Mladen Knežević ◽  
Radojka Kraljević ◽  
Jozo Jurković
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Emotional Balance

AbstractTourism, as an economic activity is incorporated in various elements of the culture of receptive destinations, but also in elements of cultural traditions of emitting regions. One part of the approach to observing tourism as a social process lies in the human need for rest, and for establishing emotional balance, which is damaged through repetitive everyday life of neoliberal society and economy, in particular. This kind of approach has created certain stereotypes, where a tourist “must feel good” in the architecture of Dubrovnik, which is larger than life. However, researches have shown that modern tourism, with shortened stay, rushing from one destination to another, does not, in reality, bring the feeling of happiness. There are far more negative emotions being projected, which are questioning if the tourism as business activity is relaxing at all.

scholarly journals Music helps addicted patients to reduce negative emotions in everyday life

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Gebhardt ◽  
Markus Kunkel ◽  
Richard von Georgi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Negative Emotions

Communicating identity through wearable technologies: The case of the action film

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-313
Author(s):  
Kristina Stankevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
High Price ◽  
Niche Market ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Action Films ◽  
Action Film

Abstract The wearable technologies market claims to be growing continually, and yet the question if wearables have actually assumed an indispensable place in fashion and mass consumerism remains. Apart from a number of practical problems such as high price, poor design and numerous reservations over privacy, wearable technologies also seem to give rise to identity issues. Leaning on research conducted by Natalia Berger of Inholland University (the Netherlands) on mass media texts and the manner in which they communicate the idea of smart fashion/wearable technologies to the mass consumer, the article attempts to look at the field of action film and the message that this specific genre communicates to its audiences about wearables. The argumentation focuses on the issue of identity and how wearable technologies participate in its creation within the realms of real life and the fictional reality of action film. The findings of the discussion concur with those of Berger, i.e. that, to enhance the popularity of wearable technologies and devices in real life, action films, like other mass media, must apply an inclusion policy, rather than communicating them as a niche market for minorities, such as a special, elitist group like government agents or superheroes. Following recommendations from experts and enthusiasts in the field, the article suggests that wearable devices be communicated as empowering their users in everyday life.

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