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The relationship between charitable giving and emotional facial expressions: Results from affective computing
Heliyon. 2024. Vol. 10. No. 2. Article e23728.
This study investigated the relationship between emotional states (valence, arousal, and six basic emotions) and donation size in pet charities, and it compared the effectiveness of affective computing and emotion self-report methods in assessing attractiveness. Using FaceReader software and self-report, we measured the emotional states of participants (N = 45) during the donation task. The results showed that sadness, happiness, and anger were significantly related to donation size. Sadness and anger increased donations, whereas happiness decreased them. Arousal was not significantly correlated with the willingness to donate. These results are supported by both methods, whereas the self-reported data regarding the association of surprise, fear, and disgust with donation size are inconclusive. Thus, unpleasant emotions increase donation size, and combining affective computing with self-reported data improves the prediction of the effectiveness of a charity appeal. This study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between emotions and charitable behavior toward pet charities and evaluates the effectiveness of marketing mix elements using affective computing. The limitations include the laboratory setting for this experiment and the lack of measurement of prolonged and repeated exposure to unpleasant charity appeals.
Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 № 2 С. 146–164
It is generally accepted that the basis of social and legal stability in any society is a consensus on vir tue — the fundamental values of proper behavior, ways of maintaining and reproducing them. And, conversely, the destruction of this consensus is a sign of the loss of stability and divergence of positions of social ...
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Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
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Diachkova M., Lelik V., Dorofeeva S. et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 Vol. 60 Article 68
This article presents the Russian Language-Monolingual corpus (RusLan-M, v.1.0), a longitudinal multimedia collection of early child speech from two Russian-speaking monolingual children: Tosya (ages 0;10–3;10, 246 recordings) and Yasha (ages 1;04–3;00, 42 recordings). The corpus consists of approximately 41 h (2,454 min.) of video recordings and 35,386 child utterances, available with transcriptions in the CHAT ...
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Vasilieva E., Trifonova A., Bultseva M. A., Current Psychology 2026 Vol. 45 Article 1320
The current exploratory study aims to reveal identity gaps and interpersonal communication strategies used by Russians to overcome social identity crises. Based on previous research, we assume that many Russians who live both in Russia and abroad face ethnic and national identity threats and experience different social identity crises due to recent geopolitical events. This ...
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Ulgen H., Journal of International Students 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 283–312
This study reports a secondary analysis of phenomenologically informed, semistructured interviews with 15 Turkish undergraduate and graduate students at three universities in Moscow and examines how peer networks function beyond emotional buffering to support academic engagement and institutional navigation in Russian–medium higher education. Drawing on social support theory, communities of practice, and community cultural wealth ...
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A. Radygina, S. Kulikova, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
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Zolotareva A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 66–77
Context and relevance. Early detection of anxiety and depression symptoms is a priority task for the child and adolescent mental health system. As Russian practice traditionally relies on separate instruments, assessing anxiety and depression in isolation, there is a need for integrated instruments. Objective. To examine the factor structure of the Russian version of the ...
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Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
This study examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes towards inclusive education in Germany and Russia and investigates how they relate to teacher training curricula and teacher educators' discourse. A mixed-methods design was used, including an online survey of PSTs (n = 460) with an open-ended question, curriculum review and exploratory interviews with university educators in both contexts. The ...
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Reznichenko S. I., Кияненко И. К., Nartova-Bochaver S. K. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 10–28
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Context and relevance. In the context of accelerated urbanization and a growing disconnect from the natural
environment, there is increasing interest in biophilic attitudes — a system of stable views, beliefs, and
evaluations that reflect a person’s relationship with living nature and shape their psychological well-being and
environmentally responsible behavior. Existing tools for their measurement, such as the ...
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Krivoshchekov V., Gulevich O., Frontiers In Social Psychology 2026 Vol. 4
Precarious manhood theory (PMT) explains men's compensatory responses to masculinity threats in domains such as affect, aggression, risk-taking, dominance, and social attitudes. While recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that masculinity threat has a small-to-medium average effect, recent preregistered replication work has failed to reproduce some influential masculinity-threat effects in a large representative sample, raising questions about ...
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Hachaturova M. R., Safonova A., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 51–66
Context and relevance. The influence of the environment on psychological well-being has been studied in a wide variety of contexts, including workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, and digital spaces. However, the psychological well-being of university faculty, particularly in relation to their connection to the university environment in the wide sense, remains virtually unrepresented in psychological research. ...
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Vasiliev F., Vasilieva E., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2026 № 2 (125) С. 113–126
This study examines how various team aspects influence their evaluation
of teamwork outcomes. The research was conducted on a targeted sample in Russian
organizations. Using structural equation modeling, three groups of factors were identified:
team aspects that affected cognitive evaluation, emotional evaluation of work, and satisfaction
with the work process (team reputation and commitment); team aspects that did not ...
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Казанцева Г. Н., Dvoynikova A., Наука об искусстве в XXI веке: Материалы V Всероссийской научно-практической конференции молодых ученых 2017 С. 215–222
В статье рассматриваются закономерности позитивного и негативного воздействия на человека звуков и музыки в целом. Раскрываются основные закономерности психоакустики и особенности ее применения в целях музыкальной терапии ...
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Shadrina E. V., Мохова В. О., Загоскин В. А. et al., Нижегородский психологический альманах 2024 № 2
The article considers the problem of learning of recognizing emotions from pictures. A review and analysis of domestic and foreign works of scientists dealing with the problem of emotional intelligence was carried out. Its formation, influence on human activity and existing variants of its structure were considered, and common features in the understanding of emotional ...
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Shepelenko A., Kosonogov V., Shestakova A., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1713462
Introduction:
Affective computing (AC) is increasingly used to study emotional processes underlying decision-making, yet its methodological validity in capturing spontaneous emotional responses and their behavioral relevance remains debated. In particular, it is unclear how facial obstructions and baseline correction affect the accuracy of AC-based facial emotion measures in capturing emotion–behavior relationships.
Methods:
The predictive validity of AC-based facial ...
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Faul B., Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2025 Т. 7 № 4 С. 174 – 197
The article addresses a key challenge to moral justification in normative ethics - the relationship between emotions and retributive moral judgments. Retributivism holds that there are normative reasons to reward or punish individuals on the basis of merit, independent of consequences. A common objection argues that such beliefs are grounded in retributive emotions, which are ...
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Alshanskaia E., В кн.: Психология творчества: традиции, инновации, перспективы. Материалы Международной научной конференции, посвященной 105-летию со дня рождения Я. А. Пономарёва.: М.: Институт психологии РАН, 2025. С. 540–543.
Modern neuroaesthetics investigates the complex impact of art on all sensory modalities and the interactions between cortical and subcortical structures involved in its perception. The neurophysiological mechanisms underlying aesthetic evaluation apply to both classical and contemporary art, providing explanations for the regularities of perception and emotional response. Particular attention is devoted to unconscious emotional reactions, ...
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Artemenko E., Яценко М. В., Попова С. М. et al., Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова 2025 Т. 75 № 3 С. 341–354
The study examines the neurophysiological correlates of confirmation bias in the context of vaccination using fixation-related potentials (FRPs). A methodological approach integrating eye tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) was employed in a laboratory experiment, enabling the synchronization of eye movement data with the brain’s bioelectrical activity. Participants read texts about vaccination containing positive, negative, and neutral ...
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Kosonogov V., Efimov K., Kuskova O. et al., Europe's Journal of Psychology 2025 Vol. 21 No. 3 P. 152–159
The article introduces a dataset consisting of 160 one-minute affective video clips with normative values of valence and arousal. Each video was evaluated by 30 subjects, while each subject evaluated at least 20 videos. Compared to previous attempts to collect affective videos, the dataset has several advantages. Firstly, the high number of videos in different ...
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Lyusin D., Sysoeva T., Экспериментальная психология 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 206–219
Context and relevance. Databases with emotional ratings of stimuli are necessary for studying the processing of emotional information and in other studies where the control of emotional aspects of stimuli is required. Emotional tone of stimuli is traditionally assessed within two different approaches, dimensional (ratings on continuous dimensions) and categorical (ratings of associations with discreet ...
Added: December 17, 2024
Ekaterina N. Martynova, Lyusin D., Psihologija 2025 Vol. 58 No. 3 P. 343–357
This study estimated how words that differ in valence and arousal influence the size of emotional Stroop effect (ESE). For this purpose, we conducted an experiment with the emotional Stroop task using five categories of words: neutral, high- and low-arousal negative, and high- and low-arousal positive stimuli. The results showed that the size of ESE ...
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Koriakina M., Луков М., Барцева К. et al., , in: 2024 Sixth International Conference Neurotechnologies and Neurointerfaces (CNN).: IEEE, 2024. P. 70–73.
This study explored different paradigms and protocols to investigate participants' psychoemotional states. The study involved testing a variety of stimuli, including videos with dramatic content, videos with neutral themes, physiological stress induction, and presentation of polar stimuli. The subjects' emotional reactions were assessed using the DES. The study showed a decrease in shame-related emotions in ...
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Shepelenko A., Shepelenko P., Panidi K. et al., Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing 2024 Vol. 29 No. 2 Article e1842
In this study, we investigated the relationship between emotions and charitable behavior in the context of pet charities. In particular, we examined the role of pet characteristics such as age, health status, signs of homelessness, and the animal being in the presence of a human as factors in a potential donor’s emotional state (valence and ...
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