Psychological impact of benign breast biopsy: A longitudinal, comparative study.

The impact of benign breast biopsy (BBB) on distress and perceptions of risk for breast cancer (BC) was examined. Interviews were conducted with 100 women shortly after notification of biopsy results and 4 and 8 months post-BBB. Compared with matched healthy comparison (HC) women without BBB, the BBB group evidenced greater BC-specific distress at baseline. BC-specific distress declined after BBB, remaining elevated relative to the HC group at the 8-month follow-up. Dispositional (optimism, informational coping style), demographic (education), clinical (family history of BC), and cognitive (BC risk perception) variables were associated with baseline levels of BC-specific distress or persistence of distress. Results support the monitoring process model (S. M. Miller, 1995) and the cognitive social health information processing model (S. M. Miller, Y. Shoda, & K. Hurley, 1996). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Emotional display rules as work unit norms: A multilevel analysis of emotional labor among nurses.

Emotional labor theory has conceptualized emotional display rules as shared norms governing the expression of emotions at work. Using a sample of registered nurses working in different units of a hospital system, we provided the first empirical evidence that display rules can be represented as shared, unit-level beliefs. Additionally, controlling for the influence of dispositional affectivity, individual-level display rule perceptions, and emotion regulation, we found that unit-level display rules are associated with individual-level job satisfaction. We also showed that unit-level display rules relate to burnout indirectly through individual-level display rule perceptions and emotion regulation strategies. Finally, unit-level display rules also interacted with individual-level dispositional affectivity to predict employee use of emotion regulation strategies. We discuss how future research on emotional labor and display rules, particularly in the health care setting, can build on these findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lexical characteristics of words used in emotional Stroop experiments.

Validity of the emotional Stroop task hinges on equivalence between the emotion and the control words in terms of lexical features related to word recognition. The authors evaluated the lexical features of 1,033 words used in 32 published emotional Stroop studies. Emotion words were significantly lower in frequency of use, longer in length, and had smaller orthographic neighborhoods than words used as controls. These lexical features contribute to slower word recognition and hence are likely to contribute to delayed latencies in color naming. The often-replicated slowdown in color naming of emotion words may be due, in part, to lexical differences between the emotion and control words used in the majority of such studies to date. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Research on nonlinear dynamics features of emotional speech

The application of nonlinear measures based on the chaotic characteristics of emotional speech is proposed. Nonlinear features such as minimum delay time, dimension correlation, Kolmogorov entropy, Lyapunov exponent and Hurst exponent are extracted from the emotional speech signal. The performance of nonlinear features is verified by the comparisons of recognition rates of different features (nonlinear characteristics, prosodic features and MFCC features). First, the Berlin emotional speech database and TYUT2.0 emotional speech database are chosen as the corpus independently, both covering three emotional classifications (anger, happiness and fear). The effectiveness of the nonlinear characteristics is tested on the Support Vector Machine Network. The result shows that the performance of nonlinear features outperforms that of prosodic features on the Berlin emotional speech database and that of prosodic features and MFCC on TYUT2.0 emotional speech database. In addition, nonlinear features have obvious advantage in detecting more natural emotional speech and better robustness.     

Retrospective memory bias for the frequency of potentially traumatic events: A prospective study.

We conducted a prospective study that tracked the frequency of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and nontraumatic events among college students over a 4-year period using a weekly web-based survey. At the study's completion, participants attempted to recall the number of events they had endorsed on the web surveys. Although participants underrecalled the frequency of all types of life events, recollection was more accurate for PTEs than for non-PTEs. Recalled-frequency of PTEs was associated positively with distress at recall and inversely with trait self-enhancement. These effects were qualified by a distress × self-enhancement interaction. High distress at recall was associated with a greater recalled-frequency of PTEs, but only for people low in trait self-enhancement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

设计接受与情感化设计

以设计接受在现代设计中的重要意义和导向为基础,从心理学的角度分析了消费者在现代设计更深层次的心理需求因素,在此基础上论述了情感化在产品设计中的意义和应用,通过对苹果公司的设计实例分析来说明融入情感化的设计会使产品变得更加易于被用户接受。     

传播学视域下的APP社交表情符号情感化研究

目的 探索网络符号在传播过程中的复杂交互性行为,提供网络符号传播需求与受众需求之间的合理思路,建立受众需求与社交APP表情符号传播的有效映射,用更直观的流程概念图帮助设计师了解受众的需求,从而设计出使受众满意的表情符号。方法 以传播学中的“使用与满足”理论为基石,以唐纳德的情感化设计模型为框架,结合两种理论的模型图,建立全新的文本概念图,阐述受众接收APP社交网络符号的满足心理,研究表情符号传播与用户之间的有效映射机制。结论 通过具体案例分析,说明新模型设计方法,并且论证其可行性,为网络表情符号提供准确的设计方法策略。在APP社交语境下,解决了受众差异性所带来的表情符号设计定位模糊的问题,提升了受众与接收网络表情符号的契合度。     

基于用户体验的文具设计创新研究

目的以消费者体验内容为依据,对文具用品的开发设计过程中的消费者体验策略进行探究,归纳与此类消费者体验相吻合的设计特征,提升消费者的情感体验。方法首先明确用户与产品间的情感体验模式,其次通过文具产品的设计案例,分析其在视觉体验、听觉体验、触觉体验、功能体验、使用流程、结构体验、尺度体验、情趣化体验及文化体验上起到的作用。结论 "物"的体验效果及其产生的"情感共鸣"是现代消费者的共同追求。对于新生代的消费人群来说,文具对于他们的意义,远不止好用那么简单,个性、品味、创意、有内涵成为该群体的主要诉求。用科学系统化的方法与人群定向的创新模式,将用户情感体验提升到企业产品开发与市场策略层面进行思考,代表着新时代下传统文具制造产业的新方向。     

基于B-W矩阵的老龄虚拟助手情感化设计研究

目的 为探究老龄虚拟助手情感化设计,采用B-W矩阵对老龄虚拟助手开展设计研究,以提升老年人居家养老情感陪伴的幸福感。方法 首先,通过对相关老龄人群进行访谈以得到31项设计要素,经偏态分析、T检验、同质性检验等方法对得到的设计要素进行验证。通过因子分析得到5类主因子,分别为外观、交互、情感、声音、场景因子。其次,通过B-W矩阵构建以进行设计要素归类,利用TOPSIS进行进一步的权重修正,按照Kano属性的剔除规则,得到29项针对老年人群的虚拟助手设计要素及其权重排序,推理得到老龄虚拟助手的设计策略。最后,根据设计策略对虚拟助手陪伴APP开展案例实践和评估,验证了老龄虚拟助手设计策略的可行性。结论 研究结果为我国老龄虚拟助手设计提供了相关建议,可为相关虚拟助手设计领域提供参考。     

面向用户情感的情绪板界面设计方法改进

目的 面向界面设计领域提出一种改进的情绪板设计方法,帮助设计师更准确地表达用户情感,并提高获取设计元素的效率。方法 在原有的情绪板设计方法中,引入0阶感性概念法,增强用户情感表达的准确性;面向界面设计,提出一系列基于图像提取设计元素的指导原则,增强情绪板设计方法在界面设计中的应用效率;拓展情绪板设计方法在交互动画设计领域的应用,从静态及动态角度多方位唤起用户情感。结论 为了验证改进后的情绪板设计方法的有效性,设计师基于该方法优化了一款拍卖软件的界面设计。通过用户参与的验证实验,表明改进后的情绪板设计方法可以帮助设计师更准确地根据用户的情感需求,对APP界面进行设计,并有助于从用户情感角度优化APP界面的设计效果。