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20 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools can predict emotion in voices in just over a second
Scientists showed that machine learning tools can identify emotions from audio fragments lasting just 1.5 seconds on par with human ratings
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18 Jul 2022
Verbal insults trigger a ‘mini slap to the face’, finds new research
By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Ken stocker/Shutterstock.com Hearing insults is like receiving a “mini slap in the face”, regardless of the precise context the insult is made in. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in Frontiers in Communication. The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) and skin conductance recordings to compare the short-term impact of repeated verbal insults to that of repeated positive or neutral evaluations. The results provide us with a unique opportunity to research the intersection between emotion and language. Humans are a highly social species. We rely on ever-changing cooperation dynamics and interpersonal relations to survive and thrive. Words have a big role to play in these relations, as they are tools used to understand interpersonal behavior. As such, words can hurt, but we know little about how the impact of words comes about as someone processes an insult. “The exact way in which words can deliver their offensive, emotionally negative payload at the moment these words are being read or heard is not yet well-understood,” said corresponding author Dr Marijn Struiksma, of Utrecht University. Because insults pose a threat against our reputation and against our ‘self’, they provide a unique opportunity to research […]
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13 Jan 2022
Emotionally manipulative political ads fail at swaying new voters, but excel at ensuring party loyalty
Emotionally manipulative political ads fail at swaying new voters, but excel at ensuring party loyalty, finds new study in Frontiers in Psychology
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20 Feb 2020
Study finds empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest
Findings may help health care professionals better assess those with autism, schizophrenia: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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19 Feb 2019
Oral contraceptives could impair women’s recognition of complex emotions
Healthy women who use birth control pills are poorer judges of subtle facial expressions than non-users, according to new research; Frontiers in Neuroscience
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13 Aug 2018
Training compassion ‘muscle’ may boost brain’s resilience to others’ suffering
As little as two weeks of compassion meditation training may reduce the distress a person feels when witnessing another’s suffering: Frontiers in Psychology
Psychology
02 Feb 2018
Moving pictures, feeble words: Emotional images sway people more than emotional words
Researchers find that emotive images alter people’s behavior, while emotive words do not
Neuroscience
01 Mar 2017
Teach yourself everyday happiness with imagery training
Our emotions are often affected by images and visual memories. What if we could train our own brains to use imagery and effect our emotional state?
Life sciences
16 Jun 2015
Staff Pick: Extreme metal music and anger processing
Heavy Metal and related genres, such as Death-, Black-, Folk-Metal, or Metalcore, are often associated with aggression and even criminal offence.