Positive Emotional Value Research Articles

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Virtual Oral Tutoring APPs on Chinese Youth’s Anxiety in Oral English learning——Interview Research Based on Users of Artificial Intelligence Speaking Tutoring APPs

Foreign language learning anxiety is a long-standing topic that people use to guide foreign language teaching and the setting of foreign language education scenarios by studying the anxiety emotions that exist in foreign language learning. However, in today’s era of artificial intelligence (AI), with the release of ChatGPT, large language model AI technology is widely used. In such a new context, various AI virtual foreign language oral coaches have emerged. Due to the short development time of the large language model technology, the foreign language training model built on this technology is still in the initial stage of development, and the research on this field is very limited. The research on the improvement of foreign language learning emotions brought by GAI is even rarer. The foreign language learning method provided by the AI coach. What help does it have for foreign language learning? Does it alleviate foreign language learning anxiety? It has become a blank in foreign language learning emotion research. This study used semi-structured interviews with 10 Chinese young people between the ages of 20 and 40. Using the method of thematic analysis, the data of this interview were recorded and analyzed, and the conclusions reached were explained from the control value theory, and it was found that AI robots can alleviate many aspects of anxiety in foreign language oral learning, such as: communicative anxiety, situational anxiety, oral anxiety, hearing anxiety, and cognitive anxiety. It is very friendly to socially phobic people, providing emotional companionship and cognitive support for students who are lonely and helpless in foreign language oral communication, although the effect of foreign language improvement is different for different students, but it has an obvious effect on alleviating anxiety when learning foreign languages, and it is unexpectedly found that the AI robot foreign language coach also has the role of emotional companionship for learners, in addition to helping to alleviate anxiety, it can also provide positive emotional value through care, companionship, communication, etc. The findings of this paper are helpful to understand the help of AI technology on foreign language learning emotions, and to provide support for subsequent research on AI accompanying foreign language learning.

Analysis on Female Consumerism in the She-Economy and Emotional Value

With the booming development of her economy, the proportion of female consumer market is expanding. Female consumers tend to pay more attention to the brands value expression and the emotional value brought by consumption, and the old marketing strategies cannot meet the new demand of female consumerism. This paper will analyse existing cases through the case study method and conclude that female consumer brands should pay attention to value guidance and marketing, and incorporate positive emotional values into their products and services. In terms of response strategies, brands should avoid entering into a purely self-assumption trap that would touch womens bottom line, and instead focus on the brands own positioning and marketing objectives, based on prudent market condition and consumer research, and correctly grasp the conception of women in the new era, in order to appropriately interpret and present the brands positioning, and ultimately deliver the positive emotional value that female consumers need.

The Influence of Webstore Visual Design and Emotional Value on Muslimah Clothing Online Purchasing Decisions in Gen Z

This study aims to examine the influence of Webstore Visual Design and Emotional Value on Muslimah Clothing Online Purchase Decisions for Generation Z FEBI IAI Darussalam Ciamis students. The growing phenomenon of online business, especially among generation Z who are skilled in technology and often shop online, encourages entrepreneurs to create webstores that attract attention and can influence their buying decisions, especially in Muslim clothing. This study discusses the influence of visual webstore design and emotional value partially or simultaneously on online purchasing decisions for Muslim women's clothing in Generation Z. The uniqueness of this research lies in its deep focus on the effectiveness of the webstore design itself and its relationship with emotional value, which has rarely been studied before. The research method used a quantitative approach with the help of SPSS to analyze data from 61 respondents who were FEBI IAI Darussalam Ciamis students from generation Z. The results showed that partially, the webstore's visual design and emotional value had no significant effect on the online buying decision for Muslimah clothing in Generation Z. However, simultaneously, these two variables had a positive effect on purchasing decisions for FEBI IAI Darussalam Ciamis students. In conclusion, professionalism, honesty, transparency, and trust in webstore design contribute to consumer buying interest and create positive emotional value as a form of appreciation for the satisfaction and convenience of using the webstore, which ultimately increases the decision to purchase Muslimah fashion products online in Generation Z.

Research on Fan Identity of Chinese Entertainment Industry in the New Media Era

With the development of the entertainment industry, China's fan economy is becoming an integral part of the popular culture and entertainment economy. The current Chinese fan economy and entertainment market is traffic-driven, with fans organizing support activities on Internet and new media platforms, forming a extremely unique fan culture phenomenon in the world. This paper attempts to study the construction of fan identity and its influence in the new media era, using methods such as qualitative and quantitative research to set up questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The research results found that in the construction of fan identity, it can be divided into three parts of idol-making participation, emotional connection and group identity for in-depth analysis, which involves fan behaviors such as fan consumption, text poaching and organizing support activities. Among them, continuous investment and the formation of fan group rules are important features. As for the influence of fan identity construction, the research explains it in terms of both positive and negative influences, include the impact on individual fans and the impact on the social level. The construction of fan identity not only brings positive development and positive emotional value to fans at the individual level, but also promotes the development of related industries in the social aspect. However, negative effects, such as the lack of individual rationality and the occupation of public resources, can not be ignored and require the joint efforts of the government, platforms, idols and fans to make fan culture develop in a healthy way.

중국 타오바오 앱 품질과 감성 가치가 타오바오(淘宝)에 대한 소비자 만족도와 사용의도에 미치는 영향

This study focuses on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model to find out how it affects quality, positive emotional value, satisfaction, and usability of Taobao apps. The data collection was conducted online through the Wenjuanxing (问卷星) Survey from May 5 to June 5 2021, and the final 310 copies were used for analysis. Summarizing the results of the analysis is as follows. First, Taobao app quality had a significant impact on user satisfaction. Taobao app quality was not significant on user intention. Emotional value had a significant impact on user satisfaction. Emotional value had a significant impact on user intention. The implications of this study are that it is most important for consumers to increase their positive satisfaction and willingness to use Taobao apps, which should be considered when developing and managing shopping apps.

Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride

AbstractTo understand socialization pathways in the development of specific, self‐relevant emotions, we examined the socialization of third‐grade children's experience and expression of pride in a sample of 196 mother–child dyads, including children's gender and race as instantiations of cultural contexts. Mothers' self‐reported beliefs about the value of positive emotions, beliefs about the value of negative emotions, and positive expressivity within the family were examined in relation to Black and White boys' and girls' own reported feelings and expressions of pride in response to five vignettes. Results revealed that mothers' beliefs and expressive behaviour were associated with their children's feelings of pride, but were not significantly associated with children's expressing pride in the vignettes. Socialization processes seemed similar across child gender and race, with the one exception of maternal value of positivity being differently associated with children's pride expression by race. Results exploring gender and race as cultural contexts indicated that mothers' beliefs and expressivity varied little by child gender, but did by race; Black mothers reported valuing positive emotions more so than White mothers. Children reported pride differences in the vignettes by both gender and race, with female and Black children reporting feeling and expressing pride more so than male and White children. These findings suggest parental and cultural roles in the socialization of how children feel and express pride.

Manipulable Object and Human Contact: Preference and Modulation of Emotional States in Weaned Pigs.

Enriching the life of farm animals is a legal obligation in intensive farming conditions in the European Union, though not worldwide. In pigs, manipulable materials are mandatory when no bedding is available. Like manipulable objects, positive human interactions might also be considered as enrichment, as they provide the animals with opportunities to interact, increase their activity and lead to positive emotional states. In this study, we investigated how weaned pigs perceived an inanimate manipulable object and a familiar human. After a similar (in length, frequency, and procedure) familiarization to both stimuli, 24 weaned pigs were tested for a potential preference for one of the stimuli and submitted to isolation/reunion tests to evaluate the emotional value of the stimuli. We hypothesized that being reunited with a stimulus would attenuate the stress of social isolation and promote a positive state, especially if the stimulus had a positive emotional value for pigs. Although our behavioral data showed no evidence that pigs spent more time close to, or in contact with, one of the stimuli during a choice test, pigs more often approached the human and were observed lying down only near the human. Using behavioral and bioacoustic data from isolation/reunion tests, we showed that a reunion with the human decreased the time spent in an attentive state and mobility of pigs to a greater extent than a reunion with the object, or isolation. Vocalizations differed between reunions with the object and the human, and were different from those during isolation. The human and object presence led to higher frequency range and more noisy grunts, but only the human led to the production of positive shorter grunts, usually associated with positive situations. In conclusion, pigs seemed to be in a more positive emotional state, or be reassured, in the presence of a familiar human compared to the object after a short period of social isolation. This confirms the potential need for positive pseudo-social interactions with a human to enrich the pigs' environment, at least in or after potentially stressful situations.

음악이 사회불안 대학생의 대인거리에 미치는 효과

본 연구는 높은 사회불안 수준과 낮은 사회불안 수준을 가지는 대학생들 간 대인거리의 차이가 나타나는지, 음악이 대인거리에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하였다. Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS)과 사회적 상호 불안 척도(Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, SIAS)를 실시하여 낮은 사회불안 집단(n=25)과 높은 사회불안 집단(n=25)을 선정하였다. 대인거리는 Comfortant Interpersonal Distance (CID) 과제를 사용하여 세 가지 조건, 즉 음악을 듣지 않는 조건, 긍정적 및 부정적 음악을 듣는 조건에서 측정되었다. 음악을 듣지 않은 조건에서 높은 사회불안 집단이 낮은 사회불안 집단보다 유의하게 더 먼 대인거리를 보였으며, 음악 조건×집단 간 상호작용 효과가 관찰되었다. 음악조건에 따른 집단 간 대인거리의 변화를 살펴본 결과, 음악이 없는 조건과 비교하여 긍정적 음악조건에서는 사회불안이 높은 집단에서만 대인거리가 유의하게 감소된 반면, 부정적 음악조건에서는 두 집단 모두에서 더 먼 대인거리가 관찰되었다. 즉 높은 사회불안 집단이 낮은 사회불안 집단에 비하여 더 먼 대인거리를 유지하고, 긍정적 음악이 높은 사회 불안 집단에서 대인거리를 좁히는 효과를 가지고 있음이 관찰되었다. 이 결과는 긍정적 음악이 사회불안의 완화와 대인관계 향상에 유용하게 적용될 수 있음을 시사한다.

Good to be disliked? Exploring the relationship between disapproval of organizations and job satisfaction in the French context

Previous research has found that a positive relationship exists between favourable perception of a firm and employees’ job satisfaction: the more positively an organization is perceived, the happier are its workers. However, the current literature has overlooked the consequences of a negative corporate image or disapproval of organizations. Building on the concept of organizational identification and the social identity literature, we fill in this gap and counterintuitively argue that employees are more likely to identify and align with their organizations when it faces illegitimate criticism. We test our hypotheses on a large-scale survey collected in France and find that perception of disapproval of an organization has indeed an adverse effect on job satisfaction. However, if employees perceive criticism as illegitimate, job satisfaction is positively impacted. This study suggests the existence of micro-level social identity reactions in case of unjustified disapprobation: employees stick together and hold the line against criticism, strengthening the collective identity and adding positive emotional value to the work experience.

Parents’ Beliefs about Children’s Emotions and Parents’ Emotion-Related Conversations with Their Children

The goals of the current study were to describe parents’ emotion socialization patterns and to assess relations between parents’ emotion-related beliefs and socialization behaviors during conversations with their children. Participants were 125 parents and their 9- and 10-year-old children from three ethnic groups in the southeastern United States. Parents reported beliefs about children’s emotions. Parents and children were videotaped playing a board game to evoke emotion-related conversations, which were then coded for parents’ labeling, teaching, and encouragement of emotion. Parents used less labeling and teaching for positive than negative emotions, and greater encouragement for positive than negative emotions. Parents with stronger beliefs about the value of positive emotions engaged in less labeling of positive emotions, less teaching of all emotions, and less encouragement of negative emotions. Parents with stronger beliefs about the value of negative emotions engaged in more encouragement of negative emotions. Parents with stronger beliefs that all emotions are dangerous engaged in less labeling of negative emotions. The results of this study have potential clinical implications in helping clients to understand the foundational structures of their behaviors and how both beliefs and behaviors are distinct, yet interrelated constructs.

Eat to Live or Live to Eat? Mapping Food and Eating Perception of Malaysian Chinese

The purpose of this study is to explore the perception of Malaysian Chinese towards food and eating by using a qualitative marketing research tool, known as the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique. Twelve Malaysian Chinese were asked to collect photographs that represented their thoughts and feelings about food and eating. The results surfaced six broad meaning themes Malaysian Chinese have about food and eating: (a) health, (b) trying new food, (c) people, (d) home cooked food, (e) enjoyment, and (f) happiness. The findings were supported by rich description and meaningful images that capture both the spoken and tacit thoughts and feelings of the respondents. The findings reflected the health concerns and food neophilia tendency of Malaysian Chinese. The findings also revealed the positive emotional value of food and eating linked to enjoyment and pleasure. These findings suggest numerous important implications for scholars and practitioners in the industry.

Response inhibition toward alcohol-related cues using an alcohol go/no-go task in problem and non-problem drinkers

BackgroundPrevious results suggested that alcohol abusers and alcohol dependent patients show cognitive biases in the treatment of alcohol-related cues, especially approach and inhibition deficit biases. Response inhibition was often tested using the go/no-go task in which the participants had to respond as quickly as possible to a class of stimuli (go stimuli) while refraining from responding to another class of stimuli (no-go stimuli). Previous studies assessing specific response inhibition deficits in the process of alcohol-related cues obtained conflicting results. The aims of the present study were to clarify response inhibition for alcohol cues in problem and non-problem drinkers, male and female and to test the effect of alcohol brand logos. MethodsThirty-six non-problem drinker and thirty-five problem drinker undergraduate students completed a modified alcohol go/no-go task using alcohol and neutral object pictures, with or without brand logos, as stimuli. An additional control experiment was carried out to check whether participants' awareness that the study tested their response to alcohol might have biased the results. ResultsAll participants, whether problem or non-problem drinkers, showed significantly shorter mean reaction times when alcohol pictures are used as go stimuli and significantly higher percentages of commission errors (false alarms) when alcohol pictures are used as no-go stimuli. Identical effects were obtained in the control experiment when participants were unaware that the study focused on alcohol. Shorter reaction times to alcohol-related cues were observed in problem drinkers relative to non-problem drinkers but only in the experimental condition with no brand logos on alcohol pictures. The addition of alcohol brand logos further reduced reaction times in light drinkers, thereby masking group differences. There was a tendency for female problem drinkers to show higher rates of false alarms for alcohol no-go stimuli, although this effect was only very close to statistical significance. ConclusionsAll participants exhibited a cognitive bias in the treatment of alcohol cues that might be related to the positive emotional value of such alcohol-related cues. Stronger cognitive biases in the treatment of alcohol cues were observed in problem drinkers, although differences between problem and non-problem drinkers were relatively small-scale and required specific experimental parameters to be uncovered. In particular, the presence of alcohol brand logos on visual alcohol cues was an important experimental parameter that significantly affected behavioral responses to such stimuli.

Skinner's Walden Two: An Anticipation of Positive Psychology?

B. F. Skinner's, 1948 novel, Walden Two has some remarkable parallels to the growing Positive Psychology movement which emphasizes the promotion of subjective well being, the development of character strengths, and establishing positive institutions. Despite Skinner's reputation for neglecting emotion and subjective well being, one finds the opposite in the Walden Two community. Misunderstandings of Skinner's views have obscured the common themes between his ideas and Positive Psychology including positive use of leisure, value of positive emotions, and seeking happiness through engagement or gratification rather than through pleasure. Moreover, at Walden Two, the community develops Positive Psychology's character strengths such as creativity, persistence, humility, love, fairness, and communal gratitude. Particularly memorable was the shaping of self-regulation. The consequences of comparing Walden Two and Positive Psychology may be to shed some of the myths about contemporary behaviorism and Skinner's ideas, and to remind workers in Positive Psychology of the power of the empirically documented methods for building the automaticity of behavioral skills which may underlie character strengths advocated by Positive Psychology. Finally, this paper suggests the need for finding common ground in current psychology rather than emphasizing divisions.

Positive emotion in sport performance: current status and future directions

Emotions have firmly established their place in sport psychology research over the past 40 years. For many decades following World War II, mainstream psychology researchers placed negative emotions (e.g., anxiety) ahead of positive emotions (e.g., happiness) but positive emotions are now a genuine, promising field of research because of their influence on specific components of performance (e.g., attention) and psychological well-being. The benefits of these emotions have hitherto not been wholly realized in a sport context, especially in their capacity to generate greater self-efficacy, motivation, attention, problem-solving, and coping with adversity. Although the sport emotion literature is sprinkled with studies that specifically examined positive emotion in sport settings, the breadth and depth of this research is too thin to make bold claims about the value of positive emotions in the emotion-performance relation. There are, however, at least three theoretical models available to sport psychologists to better understand the influence of positive emotions on sport performance and two of these models are specifically designed for sport contexts. Not only can these models deepen and widen this knowledge base, but they can also support interventions in applied settings to improve performance and psychological well-being.

Protective Factors in Midlife

The detection of psychological variables with a positive impact on health during middle age is of great interest. The data of 393 middle-aged participants (aged 35–45 at T1 and 45–55 at T2) of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) were analyzed to investigate the associations between health, optimism, positive affect, social support, and a cumulative burden score. Results show a positive association of the protective factors and a predictive value of positive emotions on health over time. The burden score showed no unique association with health. Overall, the predictors explained 17% of the variance of physical health and 33% of the variance of mental health. These findings emphasize the importance of investigating protective pathways.

Beyond hubris: How highly confident entrepreneurs rebound to venture again

This article outlines why highly confident entrepreneurs of focal ventures are better positioned to start and succeed with another venture; and therefore why overconfidence in one's capabilities functionally persists and pervades amongst entrepreneurs. By combining cognitive perspectives on confidence in decision making with Fredrickson's [Fredrickson, B.L. 1998. What good are positive emotions?. Review of General Psychology, 2, 300–319.; Fredrickson, B.L. 2001. The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56, 218–226.; Fredrickson, B.L. 2003. The value of positive emotions. American Scientist, 91: 330–335] ‘broaden-and-build’ theory of positive emotions, this paper elaborates the manner in which such entrepreneurs can develop emotional, cognitive, social and financial resilience that can be marshaled and mobilized for a subsequent venture.

Functional Anatomy of Humor: Positive Affect and Chronic Mental Illness

Functional Anatomy of Humor: Positive Affect and Chronic Mental Illness

Enacted and nonenacted encoding of social actions

Previous research has demonstrated that recall of enacted verbal commands is superior to recall of the same commands without enactment. The experiment reported explored whether the same effect would hold true in a social context as opposed to the non‐social context used in previous research. The results demonstrated that this is indeed the case. Enacted verbal commands are better recalled than commands that are encoded verbally and better than commands that are encoded by means of observing them being performed. It was also demonstrated that items rated as having positive emotional value were better recalled than items rated as negative or neutral. This was true for enacted as well as for nonenacted commands. It is concluded that there is no basic difference between memory of commands enacted in the social context and memory of commands enacted in a non‐social context. We discuss the data in relation to current theory of memory of actions.

Anhedonia as a function of non-affective interpretation of ambiguous stimuli and threshold for affective and neutral stimuli.

A theory that schizophrenic anhedonia-the failure to express pleasure-is associated with a tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli as neutral rather than emotion-laden and arises from selectively high perceptual thresholds for affective stimuli was tested. Seventy-six schizophrenic males were required to guess whether words presented to them tachistoscopically for extremely short periods were positive, negative or neutral in content. The high-anhedonic Ss were significantly more likely to guess neutral words and less likely to offer pleasant interpretations than the low-anhedonic sample, which suggests that anhedonia is associated with a tendency to interpret one's environment as lacking in positive emotional value. The tresholds of high-and low-anhedonic schizophrenic groups then were compared on pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral tachistoscopically-presented stimuli. In the only two significant differences in the latter analyses, high anhedonics showed greater tresholds for neutral stimuli than low anhedonics. These findings suggest that anhedonia is not mediated by peculiarly high tresholds for affective stimuli.