Topic: emotional response

A fundamental question in affective sciences is how the human mind decides if, and in what intensity, to elicit an affective response. Appraisal theories assume that preceding the affective response, there is an evaluation stage in which dimensions of an event are being appraised. Common to most appraisal theories is the assumption that the evaluation phase involves the assessment of the stimulus’ relevance to the perceiver’s well-being. In this talk, I first discuss conceptual and methodological challenges in investigating relevance appraisal. Next, I present two lines of experiments that ask

The World Economic Forum in its latest report elects disinformation as the most significant short-term global risk to tackle in modern society. This report more specifically mentions that misinformation is capable of disrupting elections and exacerbating societal polarization. Since photojournalistic images are treated as a proof, as a self-contained piece of evidence that an event has happened (Garry et al., 2007), finding out which factors influence the perception of the authenticity of a picture is crucial. We collected authenticity perception, political views, and emotional response to im