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Rossella Bottaro; Palmira Faraci – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between emotional experiences and study motivation in a group of nonworking and never-infected university students, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Participants (N = 353; aged M = 21.5; SD = 2.8) were mostly female (76.2%) Italian university students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Emotional Response, COVID-19
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Buttussi, Fabio; Chittaro, Luca – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2020
Humor and fear appeals are widely employed in traditional communication for educational purposes, but their exploitation in animated pedagogical agents has been scarcely explored. We studied the use of humor and fear appeals by a three-dimensional animated pedagogical agent that taught the same procedural knowledge in four conditions: i) humor…
Descriptors: Humor, Fear, Animation, Teaching Methods
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Rigato, Silvia; Menon, Enrica; Farroni, Teresa; Johnson, Mark H. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
In this study, 4-month-old infants' and adults' spontaneous preferences for emotional and neutral displays with direct and averted gaze are investigated using visual preference paradigms. Specifically, by presenting two approach-oriented emotions (happiness and anger) and two avoidance-oriented emotions (fear and sadness), we asked whether the…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Adults, Visual Stimuli