André Weinreich

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of Psychology

In this chapter, I would like to explain how you can use emotion measurement to make online services commercially successful and ensure sustainable economic success. In doing so, I will clarify the following questions: what are emotions anyway? What do emotions have to do with user-centered design? Why does the emotional impact of online services i...

In diesem Kapitel möchte ich darlegen, wie Sie Emotionsmessung nutzen können, um Online Dienste wirtschaftlich erfolgreich zu machen, und den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg nachhaltig zu sichern. Ich werde dabei folgende Fragen klären: Was sind Emotionen überhaupt? Was haben Emotionen mit nutzerzentrierter Gestaltung zu tun? Warum hat die emotionale Wirku...

While an increased impact of cues on decision‐making has been associated with substance dependence, it is yet unclear whether this is also a phenotype of non‐substance‐related addictive disorders, such as gambling disorder (GD). To better understand the basic mechanisms of impaired decision‐making in addiction, we investigated whether cue‐induced c...

While an increased impact of cues on decision-making has been associated with substance dependence, it is yet unclear whether this is also a phenotype of non-substance related addictive disorders, such as gambling disorder. To better understand the basic mechanisms of impaired decision-making in addiction, we investigated whether cue-induced change...

While economic standard theory explains cooperation in terms of rational decision-making, empirical studies suggest that humans have social preferences for cooperating with others. We investigated the specificity of these social preferences for interactions with human, relative to non-human, agents in a prisoner's dilemma game. To obtain insights i...

Facial expressions of anger and fear have been seen to elicit avoidance behavior in the perceiver due to their negative valence. However, recent research uncovered discrepancies regarding these immediate motivational implications of fear and anger, suggesting that not all negative emotions trigger avoidance to a comparable extent. To clarify those...

In the current study we measured frontal alpha band oscillation in an oddball paradigm with emotional pictures as target stimuli. Within these emotional target pictures we varied valence and arousal separately. Irrespective of this emotional connotation, participants were asked to respond to the occurrence of any picture that deviates from the stan...

The current study examined valence transfer in the crossmodal paradigm in order to test the generalizability of the phenomenon and to contribute to a better understanding of the underlying processes. Western European participants evaluated Asian ideographs to be more visually pleasant when in the presence of pleasant sounds than when in the presenc...

In carefully selected groups of video game playing (VGP) experts and nonexperts, we examined valence‐concordant emotional expressivity. We measured electromyographic (EMG) activity over the corrugator supercilii muscle while participants viewed pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. Potential group differences concerning valence‐concordant exp...

In carefully selected groups of video game playing (VGP) experts and nonexperts, we examined valence-concordant emotional expressivity. We measured electromyographic (EMG) activity over the corrugator supercilii muscle while participants viewed pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. Potential group differences concerning valence-concordant exp...

On the one hand, facial electromyography (EMG) has been proven to indicate affective changes on the valence dimension (for a review, see Larsen et al., 2003) with high temporal precision. On the other hand, eyetracking allows for the exact measurement of visual attention allocation with high spatial and temporal precision. Hence, the time-synchrono...

Drawing on recent findings, this study examines whether valence concordant electromyography (EMG) responses can be explained as an unconditional effect of mere stimulus processing or as somatosensory simulation driven by task-dependent processing strategies. While facial EMG over the Corrugator supercilii and the Zygomaticus major was measured, eac...

Eine Vielzahl von Studien zeigt, dass die Valenz eines Reizes nicht nur das Entscheidungs- und Urteilsverhalten gegenüber diesem, sondern auch gegenüber nachfolgenden Reizen beeinflusst. Jedoch ist nicht ausreichend untersucht, wie eine solche kontextuelle emotionale Stimulation Einfluss auf nachfolgende Urteile und Entscheidungen einer Person nimm...