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Language and Voice Effects on the Perception of Mixed Emotions in Children
No full textMixed emotions comprise opposing basic emotions, such as happiness and sadness, experienced simultaneously. Previous research examining children’s perception of mixed-happy and sad emotions revealed that young children have difficulty understanding that more than one emotion can be experienced at the same time but that this understanding increases with age. The current project extends this work by examining happy and disgusted mixed emotions conveyed in spoken sentences\u27 content and vocal expression. The present thesis examines the age-related change in the perception of mixed emotions in children ages 3-6 years and adults. Children listened to spoken sentences comprising of mixed emotions created by pairing incongruent sentence content and vocal expressions. In one condition, children rated the spoken sentences along a continuum of happy and sad emoticons on a Likert-type scale. In another condition, they rated sentences on happy and disgusted emotions. Three and four-year-old children showed difficulty distinguishing between emotions across sentence content and vocal expression combinations. However, similar to adult listeners, 5 and 6-year-olds demonstrate an increasing emphasis on vocal expression over sentence content in judging the emotion of the talker. The findings will help shed light on the cues that contribute to understanding emotions that enable children to succeed in social communication and relationships with others.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tara Vongpaisal 
Speech and language effects on the perception of mixed emotion in children
No full textMixed emotions often comprise opposing basic emotions such as happiness and sadness. Previous research on mixed emotion in children studied basic common emotions such as happy vs. sad. The current project extends this work by examining happy vs. disgust mixed emotions conveyed in the content and vocal expression of spoken sentences. Empathy is thought to play a vital role in children\u27s perception and experience of mixed emotions, as older children with a higher degree of empathy will recognize mixed emotions more successfully than their younger counterparts. Age-related change in the perception of mixed emotions of children ages 3-12 years will be examined. In addition, individual differences in empathy will be analyzed to determine if empathy moderates children\u27s perception and experience of mixed emotions.
Children will listen to various sentences of conflicting emotions created by opposing sentence content and vocal expression and rate the spoken sentences along a continuum of engaging emoticons that show various intensities of the target emotions. A theory-of-mind task will be administered to assess empathy, and its relationship with emotion ratings will be examined. It is hypothesized that older children will have more success in recognizing mixed emotions than younger children by demonstrating more moderate ratings on the continuous scales. The findings will help shed light on the social and emotional skills that enable children to be successful in communication and relationships with others.
Department: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tara Vongpaisa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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