Emotional Sense Research Articles

Virtual fashion experiences in virtual reality fashion show spaces.

Virtual reality (VR) provides a new fashion space and fashion experience. This study focuses on immersive VR and fashion shows to empirically explore the VR fashion space and fashion experience. Insights specific to fashion have not been presented in as much depth in the literature; thus, the current findings are particularly valuable and insightful. This study employed three immersive VR (IVR) fashion show stimuli and in-depth interviews according to a semi-structured questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed based on the concept of VR space and VR experience derived through literature research. The VR fashion space was divided into three types and VR experiences of cognitive presence, sensible immersion, emotional immersion, and aesthetic interaction were derived accordingly. First, the physical representation of a fashion show induced a cognitive and emotional sense of presence, in which users felt as though they had moved to the same time and place as those at the fashion show. Second, participants experienced cognitive confusion owing to the differences with a priori experiences in the fashion show space (i.e., reality and imagination coexist). Third, participants transcended the limitations of physical reality while in the fashion show space of pataphysics (which was realized with human imagination), and they moved beyond the stage of confusion that is experienced while facing realistic objects to connect to creative inspiration. The difference in the properties of VR space may be associated with distinct VR fashion experiences. The findings suggest that (1) a priori elements such as sociocultural contexts and personal experiences differ in the experiential dimension of virtual space, (2) the VR fashion show space induces a psychological experience between brand and consumer, and (3) creative inspiration and exploratory play can be greatly induced in a user if the immersive fashion space is further from the original source.

Contemplative medicine: A practical approach to “Well-Being 2.0” in medicine

ObjectiveTo examine the relationship between Contemplative Medicine training and clinician burnout. MethodsClinicians underwent a 12 month training program in Contemplative Medicine, which addresses several of the “Well-being 2.0” framework elements. An uncontrolled pre and post test study design was used with the validated Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) as the study tool to evaluate efficacy of the program. ResultsParticipants demonstrated improvement in burnout levels after the intervention. There were significant differences at the 0.05 significance level or better on all three scales of the MBI instrument when comparing baseline to follow-up responses, including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and sense of personal accomplishment. Particular improvement was noted in the “personal accomplishment” domain, with p < 0.01 when comparing baseline and follow-up responses. ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that Contemplative Medicine training is a viable approach for improving clinician burnout and concretely implementing the “Well-being 2.0” framework.

The holistic effects of medical cannabis compared to opioids on pain experience in Finnish patients with chronic pain

BackgroundMedical cannabis (MC) is increasingly used for chronic pain, but it is unclear how it aids in pain management. Previous literature suggests that MC could holistically alter the pain experience instead of only targeting pain intensity. However, this hypothesis has not been previously systematically tested.MethodA retrospective internet survey was used in a sample of Finnish chronic pain patients (40 MC users and 161 opioid users). The patients evaluated statements describing positive and negative phenomenological effects of the medicine. The two groups were propensity score matched to control for possible confounding factors.ResultsExploratory factor analysis revealed three experience factors: Negative Side Effects, Positive Holistic Effects, and Positive Emotional Effects. The MC group (matched n = 39) received higher scores than the opioid group (matched n = 39) in Positive Emotional Effects with large effect size (Rank-Biserial Correlation RBC = .71, p < .001), and in Holistic Positive Effects with medium effect size (RBC = .47, p < .001), with no difference in Negative Side Effects (p = .13). MC and opioids were perceived as equally efficacious in reducing pain intensity. Ratings of individual statements were exploratively examined in a post hoc analysis.ConclusionMC and opioids were perceived to be equally efficacious in reducing pain intensity, but MC additionally positively affected broader pain-related factors such as emotion, functionality, and overall sense of wellbeing. This supports the hypothesis that MC alleviates pain through holistically altering the pain experience.

The Relationship between Religious Coping and Resilience in Universitas Airlangga Medical Students Class of 2020 in Pandemic Time

Introductions: During the COVID-19 epidemic, college students were expected to adjust to varied daily routines, resulting in pressure and bad emotional sensations in each individual. This situation necessitates college students’ attempts to better their survival through coping. Religion is one coping mechanism that may be used to help pupils reduce stress. The presence of resilience is another characteristic that can overcome any challenges. Coping is used to deal with stress caused by challenges, and spirituality is regarded as one part of developing excellent resilience. Objectives: Researchers decided to undertake a study to see whether there is a relationship between religious coping and resilience in the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga students class of 2020 during a pandemic. Methods: This cross-sectional observational analytic study collects primary data using two questionnaire instruments, BRIEF RCOPE and Growth-Focused Resilience. Non-random sampling was used to collect samples from 208 Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University students class of 2020. The Chi-Square Test was used to examine the data using the SPSS version 21 tool. Results: The p-value (sig) was 0.000 (0.05), indicating a significant connection between religious coping characteristics and resilience variables. Religious coping has been shown to be one of the variables affecting and associated with resilience; effective coping will lead to good growth and vice versa. Conclusions: It is possible to infer a substantial association between religious coping and resilience among the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga students class of 2020.

Making sense of emotion and identity construction through metaphors: a prompt-based study in an English as a Foreign Language context

ABSTRACT The study of teachers’ cognitive processes has received considerable attention in the past decades. However, the scope of research on the way teachers cognitively represent and understand emotions and how such representations relate to the sociocultural particularities shaping their identities demands further attention. Inspired by the phenomenographic approach, the present study sought to examine how Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers represent emotionally charged prompts through metaphors. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews in which 17 EFL teachers were asked to represent fear, sadness, anger, and happiness emotions through metaphors. The analysis of the qualitative data indicated that the teachers used metaphors that instantiated the interconnection between emotions and sociocultural particularities of teaching. Moreover, despite the exclusive directionality of the metaphors used to characterise sadness, fear, and happiness, the teachers described anger bi-modally via both positive and negative metaphors. The findings of the study emphasise the mediating role of contextual idiosyncrasies in shaping the metaphors teachers draw on to characterise emotions. These findings may have some significant implications for teacher educators.

Cancer, now what? A cross-sectional study examining physical symptoms, subjective well-being, and psychological flexibility

ABSTRACT Background: The impact of cancer extends beyond treatment and evaluating the adverse psychological effects in survivors is important. We examined: (1) the relationship between diagnosis, relapse, and subjective well-being using a short and a holistic measure of well-being, including comparisons between our sample and established norms; (2) if reported physical symptoms were related to components of subjective well-being; and (3) if increased psychological flexibility predicted overall subjective well-being. Methods: In total, 316 survivors completed online questionnaires to assess cancer, physical health (Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale-R; ESAS-R), subjective well-being (Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving; CIT; Satisfaction with Life Scale; SWLS) and psychological flexibility (Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Results: Relative to ESAS-R cut-points (Oldenmenger et al., 2013), participants reported only moderate levels of tiredness and slightly elevated drowsiness, depression, and anxiety; participants reported more problems with psychological health. SWLS scores were lower than published norms (M = 18.23, SD = 8.23) and a relapse was associated with the lowest SWLS scores (M = 16.95, SD = 7.72). There were differences in thriving between participants and age-matched norms (Su et al., 2014). Participants reported lower community involvement, respect, engagement with activities, skill mastery, sense of accomplishment, self-worth, self-efficacy, autonomy, purpose, optimism, subjective well-being, and positive emotions coupled with higher loneliness and negative emotions. In regression analysis, two components of psychological flexibility, Openness to Experience, t = 2.50, p < 0.13, β = −0.18, and Valued Action, t = 7.08, p < 0.001, β = −0.47, predicted 28.8% of the variability in total CIT scores, beyond the effects of demographic and disease characteristics and reported physical symptoms. Conclusion: Cancer is an isolating experience, with the adverse psychological effects that impact subjective well-being continuing after the cessation of physical symptoms. Specific components of psychological flexibility may explain some variability in thriving beyond disease characteristics and may inform psychological intervention after diagnosis.

Reconnecting with the Warrior Within: Australian Indigenous perspectives on the development of a social and emotional wellbeing program.

Australian Indigenous youth are at high risk of developing mental health problems. Historical determinants and socioeconomic disadvantage continue to impact their social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) and sense of identity. Previous literature suggests connecting to culture significantly impacts SEWB in Indigenous youth. Given the diversity of Indigenous culture, collaboration and consultation with specific cultural groups is required to develop appropriate and relevant psychological treatments for SEWB. The Warrior Within Program was developed to improve SEWB in Indigenous youth by assisting them to better understand their identity through participation in group-based cultural activities. This research aimed to understand Central Queensland Indigenous Development staff perspectives around (1) the process of developing the program and (2) how group-based cultural activities contributed to staff perceived improvements in SEWB of program participants. In this qualitative study, semi-structured individual interviews of 60-90 min were conducted with four Warrior Within Program staff of Central Queensland Indigenous Development. Transcripts were thematically analysed and the subthemes identified were categorised into main themes. The process of developing the Warrior Within Program, cultural and Indigenous identity, reconnecting and knowledge emerged as the four main themes. This study makes a unique and important contribution to the Australian Indigenous literature regarding the role and nature of culture in group-based programs and the importance of collaborating with Indigenous groups to increase our understanding of their usefulness and efficacy. This study also helps to bridge the gap between Indigenous ways of knowing in program development and non-Indigenous methods of evaluation. SO WHAT?: Acknowledging Australian Indigenous methods and ways of knowing are essential to the development and delivery of culturally appropriate group problems for addressing the psychological needs of this population. The methods used in this study could be used by others seeking to legitimise cultural ways of knowing.

Sense making in the wake of familial death: “I continue to work through those feelings”

Sense making is especially common in bereavement when a death challenges an individual’s existing worldview. Thus, it is often discussed in the context of statistically atypical deaths, such as the death of a child or death by suicide, that are apt to create a crisis of meaning. Less understood is the process of sense making following more statistically normative deaths, such as those that occur in old age following prolonged illness. In this descriptive phenomenological study, researchers analyzed qualitative interviews and digital narratives created by six individuals who had experienced the death of an older family member with dementia, seeking to identify the essential nature of sense making during bereavement following so-called “normal” losses. Three themes (memorializing the whole person, reflecting on the caregiving experience, and emotional sense making) were identified, shedding light on this specific meaning making process among individuals representing a large and growing segment of the population.

Analisis Korelasi Kesepian Emosional, Sensation Seeking, dan Kecenderungan Penggunaan Instagram pada Remaja

This era of globalization is a digital era where almost everyone can use smartphones and the internet to make their daily lives easier. The era of digital development was also followed by the rapid development of information technology, one of information technology is social media. this research is a quantitative research with correlation research design. The population of this study were students of the Teaching and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Palopo. The sample in this study was 171 people who were selected using a purposive sampling technique with the criteria of having Instagram accounts and active Instagram users. The measuring instrument used in this research is the tendency to use Instagram by using the Del Bario scale, whereas sensation seeking uses the sensation-seeking scale form v, and loneliness is measured by using the UCLA Loneliness scale version 3. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis techniques with the assistance of SPSS 20 program for windows. The results of this study indicate that there is a relationship between emotional loneliness and the tendency to use Instagram (p value = 0.001 0.05) is in the weak category and the direction of positive correlation. Sensation seeking also has a relationship with the tendency to use Instagram (p value = 0.000 0.05) is in the weak category and the direction of a positive correlation, which means that the higher the level of emotional loneliness, the higher the tendency to use Instagram in adolescents, as well as sensation seeking, which means that the higher the level of sensation seeking, the higher the level of tendency to use Instagram in adolescents. Thus it can be concluded that the two variables, which are emotional loneliness (X1) and sensation seeking (X2) have a relationship with the tendency to use Instagram (Y).

Research on the Relationship Between Emotional Labor and Job Burnout of Educational Administrators of Several Universities in Yantai

In oder to understand the relationship between emotional labor and job burnout of educational administration administrators, this study conducted a questionnaire survey on related questions. Emotional labor and job burnout are significant correlated. The three strategies in emotional labor have different effects on job burnout. surface behavior is weak significant correlated with job burnout, deep behavior is weak significant correlated with job burnout, and natural behavior is very strong significant correlated with job burnout. Additionally, Surface behavior had weak significant effects on emotional exhaustion, deindividuation, and sense of achievement. Meanwhile, the deep behavior of educational administrators has significant effects on emotional exhaustion, deindividuation, and sense of achievement. Furthermore, natural behavior is very strongly significant correlated with emotional exhaustion, deindividuation, and sense of achievement. These findings will provide a wide range of assistance to educational administrators to promote their emotional management, ensure a positive work attitude and improve work efficiency.

Nurses’ assessment and management practices of pain among intensive care patients in King Khalid Hospital, Kharj, Riyadh

BackgroundPain is a disagreeable combination of sensory and emotional sensations. Employing behavioral pain assessment tools is strongly associated with improved identification of pain. PurposeThe main purpose of the study is to investigate Nurses’ Assessment and Management Practices of Pain among Intensive Care Patients in King Khalid Hospital, Kharj, Riyadh. Materials and methodsA self-administered questionnaire was employed in a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study focused on nurses employed in the intensive care unit at King Khalid Hospital in Al-Kharj Province. The researchers utilized convenience sampling to recruit participants. Out of the total 48 nurses approached 45 of them provided responses, leading to a response rate of 94%. The Critically Ill questionnaire was utilized to gather information regarding the treatment and evaluation of pain in patients who were in critical condition. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the collected data. Principal resultsit was found that 88% of them utilized instruments to evaluate pain in patients who could express themselves. Among these instruments, the numeric rating scale was the most commonly employed. Furthermore, 77% of the nurses (35 in total) used a pain assessment tool for patients who were unable to communicate, with the Adult Nonverbal Pain Scale being the most frequently used tool in this case. The nurses' perception of the significance of pain assessment was positively associated with the regular utilization of pain assessment tools. Additionally, the nurses considered the use of pain assessment tools with patients who could communicate as more important compared to using such tools with patients who could not communicate. ConclusionsMost ICU nurses utilized nurses' pain assessment instruments to assess the discomfort levels of both patients who could communicate and those who couldn't express themselves effectively. By employing such tools, nurses can improve patient outcomes, ensure effective pain management, and demonstrate a high standard of professional care.

Early maladaptive schemas are associated with self-injury thoughts and behavior in adolescents

BackgroundEarly maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and self-harm have been firmly linked in adults, but research on these associations in adolescents remains scarce. Additionally, the links between EMSs and functions of self-injury has not been previously studied in this age group. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations of EMSs with self-harm thoughts and behavior, as well as with self-harm functions, among adolescents in specialized health care.MethodsThe participants were recruited from first-visit 12-22-year-old adolescent patients entering specialized mental health care or pediatric care. For 118 participants, complete data were available for the Young Schema Questionnaire Short Form 2-Extended (YSQ) when entering care and the Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory Functions scale (OSI-F) one year later. YSQ was used to measure the participants’ EMSs and OSI-F their self-harm thoughts and behavior. The associations of EMSs and self-harm were investigated in three groups: no self-harm, self-harm thoughts only, and both self-harm thoughts and behavior. The associations of EMSs with self-injury behavior functions were assessed in four categories: Internal Emotional Regulation, External Emotional Regulation, Social Influence, and Sensation Seeking. Additionally, EMSs’ associations with addictive features of self-injury behavior were assessed. The magnitudes of effect sizes of differences between the self-harm groups were evaluated with Cliff’s Delta. The associations of EMSs with self-injury functions were analyzed with general linear modeling and with self-injury addictive features using logistic regression.ResultsThe differences between the self-harm groups were significant for the majority of the EMSs. The stronger the EMSs were, the more severe the manifestations of self-harm. The effect sizes ranged from small to large depending on the EMS. Considering self-injury functions, Internal Emotional Regulation was associated with Self-Sacrifice EMS (p = 0.021), and External Emotional Regulation both with Abandonment (p = 0.040) and Unrelenting Standards (p = 0.012) EMSs. Being addicted to self-injury was associated with Abandonment (p = 0.043) and Dependence (p = 0.025) EMSs.ConclusionsThe present study shows that significant associations between EMSs and both self-harm thoughts and behavior exist also in adolescents. Stronger EMSs are linked to more severe self-harm. Knowledge of these associations may help to improve the understanding and treatment of adolescents suffering from self-harm.

Campus Attachment and Attendance: The Moderating Effect of the Cafeteria Setting's Student Experience

This research paper investigates the connection between campus attachment and student attendance, with a specific focus on the moderating role of the cafeteria setting's student experience. Campus attachment refers to the emotional bond and sense of belonging that students develop with their educational institution, while student attendance is a crucial indicator of student engagement and academic performance. Understanding the factors that influence student attendance is vital for educational institutions to enhance student success and retention. The study will examine how the cafeteria setting's student experience influences the strength of the relationship between campus attachment and student attendance. Data will be collected through surveys, and regression analysis will be conducted to explore the significance of the moderating effect.

Emotional and Synesthetic Test of Hypnosis Induction with Video to relieve the patient from psycho-physical pain

Introduction: Emotions consist of patterns of physiological changes associated with behaviors. The urgency of putting them into action accompanied by emotional sensations that determine behavior and adaptive functions have guided the evolution of our brain. Emotions are also called "response frames" and their neuronal and hormonal control affects moral judgments and social behaviors. Historically, their expressions and recognitions have also been addressed to examine the nature of the sensations that accompany the different emotions [1]. With Multidisciplinary Team ABA, we have done two Tests on Emotions and Synesthesia in Google Tool and Video-EBT-CVS test to induce in a gradual state of hypnosis, patients properly evaluated and in the management of emotions during the Covid and post-pandemic Covid. With the aim of teaching him to recognize and manage emotions with a gradual induction to a pseudo-hypnopompic state to tell us spontaneous story of their memories that, with a meditative music, lets flow and induce first an initial induction of emotions and final recognition of their emotions and others. Clinical study: The dissemination of the Tool Emotional/Synesthesia Battery Test among adults and students at Italian schools is in an early stage, but the partial data received until now, with informed consensus, are only 19 in total and among these only 5 patients have, for health reasons that we specify in detail below, have agreed to perform the preliminary evaluation tests after the EBT/CVS Tool of 90 minutes maximum with the aim to complete the Video induction EBT-CVS with hypnosis and training to management/ treatment emotions for a total time of 1 hour 14 minutes and 40 seconds. Materials and Methods: The sample was taken after a presentation of the research made in collaboration between Private Medical Study and ASST Bergamo West/East with a total of patients who performed Tool Test on Emotions and Synesthesia. The study sample that performed Tool Test remotely with Quilgo, 19 patients performed the Tool in Google, among them 5 also performed the Test of emotions and hypnotic induction in video EBT-CVS program. Only the Video-Emotional induction/synesthetic test with evaluation of the 5 subjects, already known for years, evaluate their neuro-endocrinal and psychological pathology conditions, as described above, with 3 preliminary tests for stable their psycho-intellectual state of departure in sufficient well-being, the respective tests are: Mini Mental state examination (Italian) by MF Folstein, Raven’s standard Matrices, Test to evaluate the Hypnosis Induction Profile or Hypnotic Induction Profile of Spiegel (HIP), the Program with Tool Emotional/ Synesthesia Battery Test (EBT-CVS) and Video Test with Emotion Induction Test/Synesthesia Colombo-Vassallo-Shore or EBT-video CVS. Data analysis: The Google Test Tool EBT-CVS was sent to 44 patients in charge, of which 19 completed and sent within the 90 minutes required as the maximum time of performance. Of the 19 patients who performed it correctly. The data of the 19 tests performed have for age a range of 10-84 years, average 41,78 of years old and an average score of EQ (Emotional Quotient) of 56%, median of 54,02% and a range of 38,98%-91,10% at the EBT or Emotional Battery Test standard in Google Tool. 5 out of 19 patients tested by means of preliminary assessments, inherent our Video-Test of induction of emotions up to hypnosis, induced by the same associated video, and music in the final part of the test of recognition related also to facial expressions own and others. We analyzed the data with Anova-Mongomery 2001 to perform a variance analysis of the Tool Emotional Battery Test attended by 19 patients (Attachment 1-2, tables and graphics). Conclusions: Considering the data collected, I think it is appropriate to reflect on the tests available to us to evaluate the Emotional Quotient (Emotional/Synesthetic) of 19 persons to better understand the conscious and unconscious behavior of our patients. They can do this test in Google Tool and/or Video-Test of the Emotional Battery Test. The aim of EBT-CVS is to induce emotions with 5 senses

A new experimental rat model of nocebo-related nausea involving double mechanisms of observational learning and conditioning.

The nocebo effect, such as nausea and vomiting, is one of the major reasons patients discontinue therapy. The underlying mechanisms remain unknown due to a lack of reliable experimental models. The goal of this study was to develop a new animal model of nocebo-related nausea by combining observational learning and Pavlovian conditioning paradigms. Male Sprague-Dawley rats with nitroglycerin-induced migraine were given 0.9% saline (a placebo) or LiCl (a nausea inducer) following headache relief, according to different paradigms. Both strategies provoked nocebo nausea responses, with the conditioning paradigm having a greater induction impact. The superposition of two mechanisms led to a further increase in nausea responses. A preliminary investigation of the underlying mechanism revealed clearly raised peripheral and central cholecystokinin (CCK) levels, as well as specific changes in the 5-hydroxytryptamine and cannabinoid systems. Brain networks related to emotion, cognition, and visceral sense expressed higher c-Fos-positive neurons, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula, basolateral amygdala (BLA), thalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVT), hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS), periaqueductal gray (PAG), and dorsal raphe nucleus-dorsal part (DRD). We also found that nausea expectances in the model could last for at least 12 days. The present study provides a useful experimental model of nocebo nausea that might be used to develop potential molecular pathways and therapeutic strategies for nocebo.

Incorporating teacher emotions and identity in teacher education practices: affordances of critical autoethnographic narrative

ABSTRACT Recent research has studied teacher emotions vis-à-vis teachers’ learning, practice, and identity development and called for teacher-learning practices to include an intentional focus on emotions. Responding to this call, I designed a teacher-learning activity called ‘critical autoethnographic narrative’ (CAN). I coached teacher candidates (TCs) to narrate and analyse their experiences with the use, learning, and teaching of languages in order to explore their own identity construction and corresponding emotional responses. In this study, I draw data from my CAN implementation in a Linguistics course with MATESOL students at a large southeast US university. I specifically analyse a TC’s (Rachel’s) case to explore how in the guided and iterative process of writing CAN, she made sense of teacher emotions in her storied experiences to understand her language teacher identity. I found that as Rachel moved forward in writing CAN, she began discussing her emotions and identity in relation to meso- and macro-level ideologies. Reflecting the iterative process of the CAN writing, she also went back to earlier emotional experiences and re-interpreted them with her developing teacher lens. The paper presents her emotions in learning and using languages, navigating the university institutional landscape, and teaching and learning to teach English.

On the Relationship Between Pre-service Teachers’ Sense of Self-efficacy and Emotions in the Integration of Technology in Their Teacher Developmental Programs

On the Relationship Between Pre-service Teachers’ Sense of Self-efficacy and Emotions in the Integration of Technology in Their Teacher Developmental Programs

Adolescent risk-taking and decision making: a qualitative investigation of a virtual reality experience of gangs and violence

Introduction: Gang involvement poses serious risks to young people, including antisocial and criminal behaviour, sexual and criminal exploitation, and mental health problems. There is a need for research-informed development of preventive interventions. To this end, we conducted a qualitative study of young people’s responses to an educational virtual reality (VR) experience of an encounter with a gang, to understand young people’s decisions, emotions and consequences.Methods: Young people (N = 24 aged 13-15, 11 female, 13 male) underwent the VR experience followed by semi-structured focus group discussions. Questions focused on virtual decision-making (motivations, thoughts, feelings, consequences) and user experiences of taking part. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis.Results: Three themes were developed to represent how participants’ perceptions of the gang, themselves, and the context influenced virtual decisions. Social pressure from the gang competed with participants’ wish to stand by their morals and establish individual identity. The VR setting, through its escalating events and plausible characters, created an “illusion of reality” and sense of authentic decisions and emotions, yielding insights for real-life in a safe, virtual environment.Discussion: Findings shed light on processes influencing adolescent decision-making in a virtual context of risk-taking, peer pressure and contact with a gang. Particularly, they highlight the potential for using VR in interventions with young people, given its engaging and realistic nature.

Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes

Synaesthesia has been conceptualised as a joining of sensory experiences. Taking a holistic, embodied perspective, we investigate in this paper the role of action and emotion, testing hypotheses related to (1) changes to action-related qualities of a musical stimulus affect the resulting synaesthetic experience; (2) a comparable relationship exists between music, sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and the general population; and (3) sensorimotor responses are more strongly associated with synaesthesia than emotion. 29 synaesthetes and 33 non-synaesthetes listened to 12 musical excerpts performed on a musical instrument they had first-hand experience playing, an instrument never played before, and a deadpan performance generated by notation software, i.e., a performance without expression. They evaluated the intensity of their experience of the music using a list of dimensions that relate to sensorimotor, emotional or synaesthetic sensations. Results demonstrated that the intensity of listeners’ responses was most strongly influenced by whether or not music is performed by a human, more so than familiarity with a particular instrument. Furthermore, our findings reveal a shared relationship between emotional and sensorimotor responses among both synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Yet it was sensorimotor intensity that was shown to be fundamentally associated with the intensity of the synaesthetic response. Overall, the research argues for, and gives first evidence of a key role of action in shaping the experiences of music-colour synaesthesia.

Research on the Empathy Strategy of Intangible Cultural Heritage Short Videos from the Perspective of Cross-cultural Communication

Intangible cultural heritage has important cultural value in the world, but due to cultural differences, language barriers and other reasons, its inheritance and promotion have been limited. The empathy strategy of short videos of intangible cultural heritage (SVOICH) from the perspective of cross-cultural communication can help the audience better understand and appreciate the intangible cultural heritage of different cultures. The experimental results show that the application of short video empathy strategy can improve the audience's emotional engagement and sense of identity. The average emotional engagement of the audience is 50% higher than that of the audience without short video empathy strategy, and the average sense of identity is 35% higher than that of the audience without short video empathy strategy. These results indicate that the empathy strategy of SVOICH from the perspective of cross-cultural communication can promote cross-cultural communication and interaction, and realize the inheritance and promotion of intangible cultural heritage.