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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 8

August 2022 - 54 articles

Cover Story: This study aspires to inform the design of online communication technologies and tools for training empathy—a quality expected in many modern professions such as leaders, educators, and social and healthcare providers. While empathetic ability is often being linked to the ability to automatically mimic others, this relationship has not been studied when capturing facial mimicry using video-based facial recognition technologies, as opposed to impractical electromyography. Further, the potential difference in empathetic ability across different demographic groups has often been ignored in previous study designs. To address these gaps, this study investigates whether empathetic ability varies with age, gender, and ethnicity and analyses the relationship between empathy and facial mimicry captured using a facial recognition technology. View this paper
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Articles (54)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,924 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have demonstrated increases in boredom and its negative impact on mental health. This cross-sectional study examines state and trait boredom at four different points of the pandemic using an online sample of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,858 Views
17 Pages

Empirical Investigation of Work-Related Social Media Usage and Social-Related Social Media Usage on Employees’ Work Performance

  • Rui Miguel Dantas,
  • Hira Aftab,
  • Sumaira Aslam,
  • Muhammad Ussama Majeed,
  • Anabela Batista Correia,
  • Hamza Ahmad Qureshi and
  • João Luis Lucas

20 August 2022

The trend of using social media in the workplace is now becoming ubiquitous. Along witbenefits, social media also has negative consequences. Employees use social media for both work and social purposes. Therefore, using a quantitative approach, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,429 Views
9 Pages

20 August 2022

COVID-19 related restrictions resulted in a significant lifestyle change for many young adults in the United States. Although boredom and emotional self-regulation are clearly connected in empirical research, the question remains of what this associa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
16,153 Views
17 Pages

Are You Happy? A Validation Study of a Tool Measuring Happiness

  • Matteo Rizzato,
  • Cinzia Di Dio,
  • Laura Miraglia,
  • Carlo Sam,
  • Sharon D’Anzi,
  • Michele Antonelli and
  • Davide Donelli

19 August 2022

This study aims at evaluating the psychometric properties of a new scale to measure experienced happiness—the Measure of Happiness (MH)—in a nonclinical sample composed of Italian adults from the general population. The MH was developed n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,930 Views
9 Pages

Student Perceptions of the Resilience in a Confinement Due to COVID-19 in University of A Coruña: A Qualitative Research

  • María-Paula Ríos-de-Deus,
  • María-Luisa Rodicio-García,
  • Laura Rego-Agraso,
  • María-José Mosquera-González,
  • Marta Elena Losa-Iglesias,
  • Ricardo Becerro-de-Bengoa-Vallejo and
  • Daniel López-López

19 August 2022

The home confinement caused by COVID-19 has caused university students to express feelings, negative experiences, and concerns about the confinement situation they were experiencing. This prompted the development of research on resilience, which show...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,440 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2022

Computer-based testing is an emerging method to evaluate students’ mathematics learning outcomes. However, algebra problems impose a high cognitive load due to requiring multiple calculation steps, which might reduce students’ performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,799 Views
16 Pages

Only Words Count; the Rest Is Mere Chattering: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to the Verbal Expression of Emotional Experience

  • Daniela Laricchiuta,
  • Andrea Termine,
  • Carlo Fabrizio,
  • Noemi Passarello,
  • Francesca Greco,
  • Fabrizio Piras,
  • Eleonora Picerni,
  • Debora Cutuli,
  • Andrea Marini and
  • Laura Mandolesi
  • + 2 authors

18 August 2022

The analysis of sequences of words and prosody, meter, and rhythm provided in an interview addressing the capacity to identify and describe emotions represents a powerful tool to reveal emotional processing. The ability to express and identify emotio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,223 Views
11 Pages

18 August 2022

The declining fertility rate and an aging population have accelerated the number of single-person households and nuclear families, and the number of households raising pets has naturally increased. However, pet owners experience great sorrow and trau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,736 Views
12 Pages

The Protective Role of Mature Defense Mechanisms on Satisfaction with Life in the COVID-19 Era: A Moderated Mediation Analysis

  • Alessio Gori,
  • Eleonora Topino,
  • Alessandro Musetti,
  • Marco Giannini,
  • Rosapia Lauro Grotto,
  • Andrea Svicher and
  • Annamaria Di Fabio

17 August 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly influenced people’s lives, with non-negligible consequences for the perception of well-being. This study sought to examine the effect of anxiety, post-traumatic impairment, and mature defenses on life satisfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,371 Views
10 Pages

The Association between Video Game Type and Aggressive Behaviors in Saudi Youth: A Pilot Study

  • Majid A. Aleissa,
  • Shuliweeh Alenezi,
  • Hassan N. Saleheen,
  • Sumayyah R. Bin Talib,
  • Altaf H. Khan,
  • Shatha A. Altassan and
  • Ahmed S. Alyahya

15 August 2022

Video gaming is a popular source of entertainment among children and adolescents. Although the Middle East is home to one of the fastest growing communities of video game users, most of the research established on this topic has been carried out thro...

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