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Social touch behavior and emotions conveyed by touch in top-grossing films: Spotlight on sympathy, anger, and aggression.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Social touch behavior and emotions conveyed by touch in top-grossing films: Spotlight on sympathy, anger, and aggression./
Author:	Temenski, Lynn A.
Description:	123 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11B(E).
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3708827
ISBN:	9781321842678

Social touch behavior and emotions conveyed by touch in top-grossing films: Spotlight on sympathy, anger, and aggression.
Temenski, Lynn A.

Social touch behavior and emotions conveyed by touch in top-grossing films: Spotlight on sympathy, anger, and aggression. - 123 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fielding Graduate University, 2015.

Sympathy is decreasing in American college students. Considering this reduction, we wanted to see if films that are popular among young viewers show a lack of sympathy. Violence in the media is the most studied topic in media psychology, and sympathy (a kind of empathy) is little studied in this context. Research suggests sympathy and anger can be reliably communicated to observers of touch interactions. Touch that conveys anger is by definition aggression (intent to harm). Physical aggression may serve ultimate, deliberate goals without expressing apparent affect. Given high levels of aggression in blockbuster movies, the study coded anti-social and pro-social touch goals, and sympathy and anger as portrayed via touch in films comprising the top 10% of domestic box-office receipts 2009-2013. Type of touch technology (body-body; hand-held direct extension tool) was also coded, considering that vicarious brain activation differs in response to touch by a hand versus by an object. Inter-rater reliability supported coding social touch goal, sympathy, anger, and direct touch technologies manifest in film character dyad interactions. The quantitative content analysis tested emotion and behavior hypotheses; significant findings include body-body contact is related to sympathy, and tool use is related to anger; male characters portrayed anger more than sympathy; male characters portrayed sympathy more than female characters; overall, pro-social touch is conveyed more frequently than anti-social touch; body-body contact is more frequently pro-social, and tool use more frequently anti-social, particularly by male characters. Thus, proximate touch extension technology is rendered in popular film as ineffective for enacting pro-social goals and communicating sympathy. Study findings show some inconsistency with experimental research on gender in communication of emotion via touch. Dyad gender configuration data, and post hoc coding of projectile aggression imagery, multi-dyad touch interactions, and valence of other emotion portrayals are discussed, as are potential social learning implications. An analysis of touch in film narratives identifies numerous types of social touch ambiguity. Further research is recommended regarding touch meanings, and effects of media models of touch on social cognition, including measures of aggression, empathy, and social touch attitudes.

ISBN: 9781321842678Subjects--Topical Terms:

520219
Social psychology.

Social touch behavior and emotions conveyed by touch in top-grossing films: Spotlight on sympathy, anger, and aggression.
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