Abstract

 
 
 The paper considers changes of the EEG parameters while viewing the emotionally accented TV messages depending the emotional burnout formation. We found that the character and degree of EEG changes during the perception of emotional stimuli significantly depend on the characteristics of a particular stimulus and the current level of emotional state of the viewers (emotional burnout, fatigue). The subjects with the phase of resistance of the emotional burnout syndrome at the stage of formation (“Burnout RP under development”) differ significantly from the groups with the unformed and formed Burnout Resistance Phase (“Burnout RP unformed”, “Burnout RP formed”) in the dynamics of changes of spectral power of the EEG subbands during the exposure to the emotional stimuli. The development of burnout is characterized by an increase in State Anxiety and fatigue, the desensitization to the emotionally accented information, an augmentation in social alienation and, eventually, manifests in changes in the brain response to emotional stimuli, which consist in the inhibition of high-frequency EEG components.
 
 
Highlights
TV, especially the TV news, focuses primarily on the negative aspects of life [Johnson, 1996]
The magnitude of cognitive and neuronal responses to images with scared faces is positively associated with fear and anxiety [Rauch et al, 2000; van Honk et al, 2002; Fox et al, 2005; Putman et al, 2010]. This indicates that the viewing of scenes with negative events causes physiological changes that are characteristic to the experiencing negative events
In the previous study we showed that the impact of negative TV news depends on the viewers’ burnout [Havrylets et al, 2018]
Summary
TV, especially the TV news, focuses primarily on the negative aspects of life [Johnson, 1996]. It is unknown how the perception of positive TV news stories changes in this condition and how the cortical activity differ while viewing the positive and negative TV messages in a state of stress.
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