Emotions Are Contagious

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigal Barsade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Tone Of Voice

You're at the family dinner table. Your spouse worries that a friend's business is struggling. Then your son complains about his math homework and your inability to help, and your daughter asks when she will see her friends again. As the meal progresses, you can feel everyone becoming more and more anxious. Emotions are contagious. We automatically mimic each other's facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. Next, we actually feel the emotions we mimicked and begin to act on them. Without our realizing what's happening, feelings can escalate, as we “catch” them from other people, who catch them back from us, in an increasing spiral. While emotions spread more easily in person, they also get transmitted through social media, phone calls, emails, and video chats. In fact, negative emotions related to isolation may make us even more susceptible. Luckily, knowledge is a form of inoculation. Just being aware of emotional contagion can reduce its negative effects. And positive emotions transfer just as easily as negative ones. The spread of positive emotions leads to greater cooperation, less conflict, and improved performance.

Regulatory talk and politeness at the family dinner table

Pragmatics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Brumark
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Activity Regulation ◽  
Intercultural Studies ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the use of regulatory talk at dinnertime in twenty Swedish families with children between the ages of four and seventeen years. The aim of the study was to explore activity regulation in the light of contextual factors, such as the age of the participating children, the number of participants and the different kinds of conversational contexts. Regulatory talk extracted from twenty videotaped dinner conversations was transcribed, coded and analysed within the framework of theories about the impact of context on control acts, indirect speech and politeness. Regulatory utterances, about 7 % of all utterances produced by all family members, were mostly formulated as direct requests and about 15 % of them were mitigated, softening the impact of coerciveness. Indirect regulators occurred, however, in nearly one half of the cases whereas hints were rather uncommon. Age of the children, as well as activity and conversational context had an obvious impact on the way regulatory utterances were performed. Most instrumental regulators (related to the dinner routine) were direct (somewhat more than 60 %) and most non-instrumental regulators were indirect (nearly 60 %). Furthermore, the intended goal i.e. what action was required from the addressee seemed to affect the use of regulators: Regulation at the dinner table mostly concerned nonverbal actions and requests for objects and was related to the main activity. Compared with the American and Israeli groups in Blum-Kulka’s study (1997), the Swedish parents together tended to be more indirect but less mitigating. However, in instrumental contexts i.e. when regulating routine actions relating to the meal, most parental regulators were direct (60 %) whereas about 75 % of the utterances were indirect in non-instrumental contexts. A comparison of these findings with the data from Blum-Kulka (1997) and with other similar intercultural studies leads to the conclusion that situational factors, such as family structure, conversational genres and communicative goals, might have more impact on regulatory talk than socio-cultural background.

scholarly journals A simple multi-feature classification to recognize human emotions in Images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Ipe
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Facial Feature ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
The Face ◽  
Tone Of Voice

Emotion recognition by the human brain, normally incorporates context, body language, facial expressions, verbal cues, non-verbal cues, gestures and tone of voice. When considering only the face, piecing together various aspects of each facial feature is critical in identifying the emotion. Since viewing a single facial feature in isolation may result in inaccuracies, this paper attempts training neural networks to first identify specific<br>facial features in isolation, and then use the general pattern of expressions on the face to identify the overall emotion. The reason for classification inaccuracies are also examined.<br>

Communication Skills

Mood Prep 101 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Carol Landau
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Optimal Timing ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
The Family

This chapter is an in-depth exploration of communication between parents and teens. This foundation becomes important when difficult topics like depression, substance use, or family conflict need to be discussed. Communication strategies, including open-ended questioning, validation, empathy, and optimal timing, are detailed. The chapter illustrates why lecturing and immediate problem-solving are not helpful. Assertive communication within the family is discussed as well as cultural barriers to effective communication. The skills of motivational interviewing are applied to parent–child interactions about decisions. The family dinner is examined as an opportunity for shared communication and connection. Divorce is seen as a severe breakdown in communication, with 25–30% of children suffering negative effects. Arizona State University’s New Beginning Program for parents going through a divorce is presented as a proactive model that has reduced psychological problems in children and emerging adults.

Politics

Mind-Society ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 137-172
Author(s):  
Paul Thagard
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Coherent Systems ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Tone Of Voice ◽  
Emotional Representations

Ideologies are coherent systems of concepts, values, and other representations that operate in a group of people to justify the current situation or to motivate change. These sets of values spread among individuals as the result of interactions that typically involve both verbal and nonverbal communication. Ideologies spread through talking and writing but also through nonverbal expressions such as visual and auditory images, gestures, facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. Ideologies such as the Islamic State worldview can be analyzed by identifying the main cognitive-emotional representations. The mental processes of individual leaders and voters use concepts, images, beliefs, rules, goals, and analogies. All of these representations have important emotional aspects, as when concepts are bound with emotions to produce values and when beliefs are bound into specific emotions such as fear, all producing semantic pointers.

scholarly journals A simple multi-feature classification to recognize human emotions in Images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Ipe
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Facial Feature ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
The Face ◽  
Tone Of Voice

Emotion recognition by the human brain, normally incorporates context, body language, facial expressions, verbal cues, non-verbal cues, gestures and tone of voice. When considering only the face, piecing together various aspects of each facial feature is critical in identifying the emotion. Since viewing a single facial feature in isolation may result in inaccuracies, this paper attempts training neural networks to first identify specific<br>facial features in isolation, and then use the general pattern of expressions on the face to identify the overall emotion. The reason for classification inaccuracies are also examined.<br>

scholarly journals Developing Coding Structures For Becoming Affect-Savy in the Fully Online Community Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuk Yagci ◽  
ROLAND VANOOSTVEEN
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
The Social

This study aims to provide support for the efficacy of the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) Model by examining communication between participants within a series of recorded online focus groups and by investigating the behaviours that are undertaken by participants. A coding system based on body language expressions is proposed as an outcome of this study and the affective domain of the participants is analyzed through facial expressions, body language and content (words) employed. Findings suggest that affects (emotions) have a preeminent role in the social presence in FOLC environments. Positive emotions are easier to detect as individuals exhibit them without masking, with some possible exceptions arising from personal dispositions and cultural inferences. Negative emotions can also be detected through a combination of facial expressions and body language coding. However, findings were not consistent for determining sadness and surprise states and further studies will have to explore ways to differentiate these affects from others. The instigations set forward by the participants and affective responses to the behaviours of instigators provided support for the empirical study about the efficacy of facilitation and interactions within fully online learning environments.

Behaviour regulation at the family dinner table. The use of and response to direct and indirect behaviour regulation in ten Swedish families

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1065-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
ÅSA BRUMARK
Keyword(s):  
Family Context ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Group 2

ABSTRACTThis study explores parents' and children's use of and response to direct or indirect behaviour regulation in a family context. Ten families with two children each were divided into two groups depending on the age of the children (6–7 and 10–11 years or 10–11 and 13–14 years). Video-recorded regulatory dinner talk was transcribed, coded and analysed with regard to directness or indirectness in relation to behavioural outcome. Dinner talk was predominantly direct, but younger children were addressed by direct regulators as two-thirds of all regulators, whereas the opposite was seen with older children. Though children also tended to be direct, younger children used three times as many direct regulators as older ones. Compliance appeared in two-thirds of all direct regulators, but almost one-half of all indirect regulators were not complied with. Differences between groups were furthermore distinguished by instances of compliance: those who were most non-compliant were the children in group 2.

scholarly journals Salz, eine Brezel und der Weg zum Bahnhof. Strategien des Bittens in Varietäten des Deutschen und im Serbischen

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Hentschel
Keyword(s):  
Railway Station ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Verbal Strategies ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the verbal strategies used by speakers of German in Germany and Switzerland and speakers of Serbian in Serbia in order to voice a request. The participants in the study were asked what they would say in the following three situations: Asking for the way to the railway station in a strange city, asking their younger brother to pass the salt at the family dinner table, and buying a pretzel at the local bakery. Subsequently, the use of downtoners like 'please' or special particles was analysed, as well as the frequency of non-indicative verbal modes (subjunctive or conditional), the occurrence an equivalent of excuse me at the beginning of the request, and the use of greetings and address forms. The results show surprising differences between the three groups.

The Family Dinner As Insulation Against Adolescent Body-Image Dysfunction

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puja Chabra ◽  
Jaine Strauss ◽  
Stephen J. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
The Family
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