APPROACH TO MASS MEDIA NEWS INFORMATION WORKFLOW ANALYSIS IN VIEW OF ITS EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
O.M. Babich ◽  
O.O. Matviyenko ◽  
A.S. Gluhova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Information Stream ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
Proper Translation ◽  
Vital Element

Research of information environment features is a vital element of information and analytical activity that makes possible to form the situation view more complete and precise. It is an important benchmark to react events information. Development of approaches to the information workflow processing concerns different aspects. The approach to mass media news information workflow processing with regard to its emotional component analysis and its intensity measurement is presented in this article. The elements which form emotional characteristics of news texts are also included. The nature of mass media news is emotionally saturated, so it is important to identify the factors which pressurize emotional state, notice relative phrases and evaluate them in a proper way. Therefore, proper translation of each phrase is critical due to the presence of idioms next to social and political lexis in mass media, which are used by news texts authors to impart a message a brighter character. With this in view these phrases demand a proper translation. The name for lingual units that transmit emotions and emotional states is concepts. Each language disposes its own concepts system related inseparably to the national culture of the native speaker’s language. Concepts which transmit certain emotions in the text form its emotional coloring. It can be evaluated by quantitative and qualitative indexes by appropriation of respective weighting ratios to particular emotional expressions. These expressions are transmitted with conventional phrases or idioms. It is advisable to form basic vocabulary of the text corpora with corresponding characters set which is a part of emotional coloring rate assessment procedure. The intensity of information impact is assessed by the most significant criteria, which form news nature. Outcome is graphically performed at the user's display. This approach application enables examination of different aspects of mass media information stream and makes possible to estimate it by various characteristics. In this way the presented application extends practical opportunities of news information workflow processing with the view of national security interests.

scholarly journals Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Albuquerque ◽  
Daniel S. Mills ◽  
Kun Guo ◽  
Anna Wilkinson ◽  
Briseida Resende
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Implicit Information ◽  
Emotional Display ◽  
Affective Information ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
Current Behaviour

AbstractThe ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions. These abilities, together with the use of emotional information from others in social decision making, are cognitively demanding and require inferential skills that extend beyond the immediate perception of the current behaviour of another individual. They may include predictions of the significance of the emotional states being expressed. These abilities were previously believed to be exclusive to primates. In this study, we presented adult domestic dogs with a social interaction between two unfamiliar people, which could be positive, negative or neutral. After passively witnessing the actors engaging silently with each other and with the environment, dogs were given the opportunity to approach a food resource that varied in accessibility. We found that the available emotional information was more relevant than the motivation of the actors (i.e. giving something or receiving something) in predicting the dogs’ responses. Thus, dogs were able to access implicit information from the actors’ emotional states and appropriately use the affective information to make context-dependent decisions. The findings demonstrate that a non-human animal can actively acquire information from emotional expressions, infer some form of emotional state and use this functionally to make decisions.

scholarly journals Interoceptive sensibility predicts the ability to infer others’ emotional states

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258089
Author(s):  
Amelie M. Hübner ◽  
Ima Trempler ◽  
Corinna Gietmann ◽  
Ricarda I. Schubotz
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Differential Modulation ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Fearful Expression ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Response Task

Emotional sensations and inferring another’s emotional states have been suggested to depend on predictive models of the causes of bodily sensations, so-called interoceptive inferences. In this framework, higher sensibility for interoceptive changes (IS) reflects higher precision of interoceptive signals. The present study examined the link between IS and emotion recognition, testing whether individuals with higher IS recognize others’ emotions more easily and are more sensitive to learn from biased probabilities of emotional expressions. We recorded skin conductance responses (SCRs) from forty-six healthy volunteers performing a speeded-response task, which required them to indicate whether a neutral facial expression dynamically turned into a happy or fearful expression. Moreover, varying probabilities of emotional expressions by their block-wise base rate aimed to generate a bias for the more frequently encountered emotion. As a result, we found that individuals with higher IS showed lower thresholds for emotion recognition, reflected in decreased reaction times for emotional expressions especially of high intensity. Moreover, individuals with increased IS benefited more from a biased probability of an emotion, reflected in decreased reaction times for expected emotions. Lastly, weak evidence supporting a differential modulation of SCR by IS as a function of varying probabilities was found. Our results indicate that higher interoceptive sensibility facilitates the recognition of emotional changes and is accompanied by a more precise adaptation to emotion probabilities.

Robots Showing Emotions

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M. Angel-Fernandez ◽  
Andrea Bonarini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Special Shape ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Angular Velocities ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Robots should be able to represent emotional states to interact with people as social agents. There are cases where robots cannot have bio-inspired bodies, for instance because the task to be performed requires a special shape, as in the case of home cleaners, package carriers, and many others. In these cases, emotional states have to be represented by exploiting movements of the body. In this paper, we present a set of case studies aimed at identifying specific values to convey emotion trough changes in linear and angular velocities, which might be applied on different non-anthropomorphic bodies. This work originates from some of the most considered emotion expression theories and from emotion coding for people. We show that people can recognize some emotional expressions better than others, and we propose some directions to express emotions exploiting only bio-neutral movement.

Cinematographic High-Contrast Lighting Can Facilitate Empathetic Affective Mimicry

Projections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Alan Voodla ◽  
Elen Lotman ◽  
Martin Kolnes ◽  
Richard Naar ◽  
Andero Uusberg
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Affective Empathy ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
High Contrast ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Facial Mimicry ◽  
Facial Muscles ◽  
High Road

AbstractDo cinematographic lighting techniques affect film viewers’ empathic reactions? We investigated the effect of high- and low-contrast lighting on affective empathy toward depicted actors. Forty one participants watched short clips of professional actors expressing happiness, anger, and disgust, and rated the valence and intensity of their own and actors’ emotional states. Affective empathy was assessed through the extent of the facial mimicry of actors’ emotional expressions and quantified through electromyographic activation of expression-specific facial muscles. We managed to elicit facial mimicry for happiness and anger, but not for disgust. High-contrast lighting further amplified empathic mimicry for happy but not for angry expressions. High-contrast lighting also amplified subjective feelings elicited by angry and disgusted but not happy expressions. We conclude that high-contrast lighting can be an effective means for influencing film viewers’ empathic reactions through the low road to empathy, even as the overall impact of lighting also relies on the high road to empathy.

Patterns of Emotion Attribution are Affected in Patients with Schizophrenia

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Verónica Romero-Ferreiro ◽  
Luis Aguado ◽  
Javier Rodriguez-Torresano ◽  
Tomás Palomo ◽  
Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Facial Affect Recognition ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Cognitive Representation ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Emotion Label ◽  
Poorly Differentiated ◽  
Emotion Labels

AbstractDeficits in facial affect recognition have been repeatedly reported in schizophrenia patients. The hypothesis that this deficit is caused by poorly differentiated cognitive representation of facial expressions was tested in this study. To this end, performance of patients with schizophrenia and controls was compared in a new emotion-rating task. This novel approach allowed the participants to rate each facial expression at different times in terms of different emotion labels. Results revealed that patients tended to give higher ratings to emotion labels that did not correspond to the portrayed emotion, especially in the case of negative facial expressions (p < .001, η2 = .131). Although patients and controls gave similar ratings when the emotion label matched with the facial expression, patients gave higher ratings on trials with "incorrect" emotion labels (ps < .05). Comparison of patients and controls in a summary index of expressive ambiguity showed that patients perceived angry, fearful and happy faces as more emotionally ambiguous than did the controls (p < .001, η2 = .135). These results are consistent with the idea that the cognitive representation of emotional expressions in schizophrenia is characterized by less clear boundaries and a less close correspondence between facial configurations and emotional states.

scholarly journals Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuan Le Mau ◽  
Katie Hoemann ◽  
Sam H. Lyons ◽  
Jennifer M. B. Fugate ◽  
Emery N. Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Dynamic Stimuli ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Facial Movements ◽  
Specific Mapping

AbstractIt is long hypothesized that there is a reliable, specific mapping between certain emotional states and the facial movements that express those states. This hypothesis is often tested by asking untrained participants to pose the facial movements they believe they use to express emotions during generic scenarios. Here, we test this hypothesis using, as stimuli, photographs of facial configurations posed by professional actors in response to contextually-rich scenarios. The scenarios portrayed in the photographs were rated by a convenience sample of participants for the extent to which they evoked an instance of 13 emotion categories, and actors’ facial poses were coded for their specific movements. Both unsupervised and supervised machine learning find that in these photographs, the actors portrayed emotional states with variable facial configurations; instances of only three emotion categories (fear, happiness, and surprise) were portrayed with moderate reliability and specificity. The photographs were separately rated by another sample of participants for the extent to which they portrayed an instance of the 13 emotion categories; they were rated when presented alone and when presented with their associated scenarios, revealing that emotion inferences by participants also vary in a context-sensitive manner. Together, these findings suggest that facial movements and perceptions of emotion vary by situation and transcend stereotypes of emotional expressions. Future research may build on these findings by incorporating dynamic stimuli rather than photographs and studying a broader range of cultural contexts.

scholarly journals The Emotional Component of Verbal Intercultural Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
O.V. Abakumova ◽  
L.V. Velichkova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Lexical Content

The article is devoted to intercultural communication at the level of sounding speech, the parameters of which actively influence the communication situation. When implementing intercultural communication, it is necessary to be aware of the parameters of sounding foreign language speech in an emotional aspect. Speech parameters can give additional shades or meanings to an utterance, including those opposed to the meaning of its constituent linguistic units. The role of emotionality as an active component of the communicative process is determined, the possibility of studying this component is substantiated only accompanied by an interdisciplinary approach, involving the study of speech perception. To express emotional states, each language has a set of nationally - specific means capable of coloring an utterance, regardless of its lexical content. Nationally specific signs of a neutral style of speech determine its emotional perception by speakers of another language. Differential signs of communicative types of utterances carry important information about the completed or progressive nature of the utterance, which may require the inclusion of lexical means during oral translation. The analysis is carried out at the level of rhythmic parameters and melodic signs (characteristics of the main-stressed syllables) on the material of three languages: Russian, German, Spanish.

scholarly journals Human Emotional State Assessment Based on a Video Portrayal

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.A. Barabanschikov ◽  
E.V. Suvorova
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Valence And Arousal

The article is devoted to the results of approbation of the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT), a Swiss method for assessing dynamic emotional states, on Russian sample. Identification accuracy and the categorical fields’ structure of emotional expressions of a “living” face are analysed. Similarities and differences in the perception of affective groups of dynamic emotions in the Russian and Swiss samples are considered. A number of patterns of recognition of multi-modal expressions with changes in valence and arousal of emotions are described. Differences in the perception of dynamics and statics of emotional expressions are revealed. GERT method confirmed it’s high potential for solving a wide range of academic and applied problems.

scholarly journals Emotional Content in the News Product of Online Media of Ukraine in the Post-Truth Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Alevtyna Beletska ◽  
Valeriya Rozhdestvenska
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Media Monitoring

The objective of the article is to find out the social and scientific problems of the phenomenon of mass emotions dissemination in social communications through mass media in order to lead public opinion. The article studies the emotional component in the news products of Ukrainian media in the run-up to the 2019 election campaign, the quality of audience feedback received through social media pages of the researched domestic media and the pragmatic intent of news communication with the audience. The methods used by the author to achieve the objective are functional-pragmatic analysis, media monitoring, content analysis and identification: the distinction between neutral and emotionally colored vocabulary is made on the basis of intuition and identification by the hedonic method of B.Dodonov. The main results and conclusions of the study: the interrelation between emotionality in the information product of Ukrainian news media and the pragmatic nature of social communications in which these mass media have been involved (taking into account the interests of media owners). It has been established that in the provision of communication services, some subjects of media communications in Ukraine consider this process as shaping public opinion rather than providing information that is contrary to journalistic standards in the world and in Ukraine. The article may be of interest to media experts, media managers, and journalists-practitioners in improving their activities, because it outlines the current trends in development of social communications and the factors of pragmatic emotionality in mass media.

Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Stenger
Keyword(s):  
Urban Society ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Public ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian Society

The Riot of the Statues in 387 CE was a decisive moment in the history of Antioch in Syria. After the revolt, tears and public lamentations took over, as the inhabitants awaited imperial punishment. In the course of the crisis the rhetorician Libanius and the preacher John Chrysostom each tried to negotiate a settlement of the dispute between the authorities and the city. Their speeches depict dramatic scenes of collective weeping and lamentation and thus reflect not only emotional states but also the public use of tears. In doing so, they shine light on the theatrical qualities of emotional responses in social interaction. The analysis of the purposes for which both authors exploit the themes of laughing and wailing reveals two contrasting attitudes to urban society and oratory. While both recognise the vital role of laughter and tears in managing social relationships, Libanius’ representation of emotional expressions aims to eulogise the virtues of an imperial officer and maintain the traditional order of society. Chrysostom, by contrast, teaches his audience which emotions are acceptable in a Christian society and which are not. His aim is to implement an emotion management that is oriented towards the heavenly realm.

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