Trace: A research media player measuring real-time audience engagement

Behavior Research Methods, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 57(1)

Published: Jan. 6, 2025

Abstract Measuring attention and engagement is essential for understanding a wide range of psychological phenomena. Advances in technology have made it possible to measure real-time naturalistic stimuli, providing ecologically valid insight into temporal dynamics. We developed research protocol called Trace , which records anonymous facial landmarks, expressions, patterns movement associated with screen-based media. runs standard internet browser resembles contemporary media player. It embedded the open-source package PsychoJS (the JavaScript sister library PsychoPy) hosted via Pavlovia, can be integrated behavioral methods. Developed over multiple iterations tested 200 participants three studies, including official broadcast major theatre production, powerful, user-friendly allowing researchers capture audience as part authentic, experiences.

Language: Английский

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Approach bias modification reduces automatic gaming tendencies and enhances brain synchronization in internet gaming disorder

Journal of Psychiatric Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Sexism in teams: Exposure to sexist comments increases emotional synchrony but eliminates its benefits for team performance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 122(18)

Published: April 30, 2025

In a world where teams serve as the backbone of collaboration and innovation, women must feel safe when contributing to teamwork. Unfortunately, an increasing number report experiencing sexual harassment in workplaces other collective settings. This research included examination how exposure sexist insults affects collaborative efforts. We argue that addition its well-documented effects on individuals, sexism within undermines team performance. Hence, emotional synchrony—temporally coordinated facial expressions between individuals—loses ability enhance members are exposed sexism. Under threat comments, synchrony signals social bonding rather than focusing performance goals. To test this theory, 177 woman dyads interacting video-conferencing platform received instructions for cooperative task with/without comments from actor-experimenter sexism/control conditions. Emotional was assessed through temporal alignment dyad correlated with Our findings revealed significant increase expressive among condition. Whereas predicted better control condition, classic positive vanished under These results suggest sexism, while enhancing cohesion, eliminates benefits synchrony, which is considered glue action. zero-tolerance policies not only more ethical but can also promote effective

Language: Английский

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Únicos, mas não incomparáveis: abordagens para identificação de similaridades em respostas emocionais de diferentes indivíduos ao mesmo estímulo audiovisual

Published: Oct. 14, 2024

Understanding human emotional behavior is a complex but essential task when aiming to offer better user experience through the incorporation of Affective Computing techniques. The integration these techniques can lead more intuitive and emotionally intelligent interactions between users systems. In society characterized by ethnic cultural diversity, it also necessary understand how different individuals react given stimulus so that adaptations interventions in software be effective. this context, study discusses two approaches comparing responses same stimulus. By leveraging advanced data analysis machine learning methods, research aims provide deeper insights into patterns. addition highlighting importance discussing characteristics particularities each approach, presents validation approaches, identifying similarities - distinctions 39 individuals. results not only demonstrate effectiveness suggest their complementarity.

Language: Английский

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