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2026 International Journal of Hospitality Management Gated Peer-Reviewed
Designing smart menus: A multi-method exploration of AI integration in hospitality guest experience and operations
Isenberg School of Management
Abstract This study explores artificial intelligence (AI) applications in menu design optimization within hospitality management. Grounded in choice architecture, arousal and S-O-R theories, it examines how AI-optimized/ menus influence consumer dining behaviors and physiological responses. Based on a baseline menu, ChatGPT enhanced it into three themes: sustainable, healthy, and mixed. A controlled laboratory experiment with […]
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2026 PLOS One Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Divergence between facial expressions and self-reported emotions: Sex differences in responses to video-based emotional stimuli
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine + 1 more
Emotional responses involve multiple components, including subjective experience and behavioral expression, which do not always align. Moreover, sex differences in emotional processing appear to vary across emotion types and response modalities. This study investigated sex differences and concordance between self-reported emotional experience and facial expressions elicited by naturalistic emotional video stimuli in a Korean adult […]
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2026 MDPI Brain Sciences Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Symptom Severity and Normalizes Neurophysiological and Attentional Reactivity in Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Beykoz University + 2 more
Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder marked by restrictive eating, distorted body image, and high relapse rates. While cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used treatment, its mechanisms of action in AN remain incompletely understood, particularly beyond self-reported symptom change. This study investigated the effects of a 12-week CBT intervention on both […]
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2026 The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research Open Access Peer-Reviewed
An Interdisciplinary and Integrated Methodological Framework to Analyze Aesthetic Experience in Music Performances
AbstractObjective: Investigations of aesthetic experience have continually searched for field-research methodologies that measure physiological and self-report responses reliably and with little invasiveness. On this background, the interdisciplinary research project “ECR–Experimental Concert Research” set out to study aesthetic experience in live public concerts.Methods: A team of scientists from musicology, psychology, cultural studies, and software engineering were […]
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2026 European Journal of Information Systems Open Access Peer-Reviewed
How do attention and emotion drive donations in charitable crowdfunding? An empirical study of users’ cognitive and physiological responses to image content
Copenhagen Business School
Abstract: This study investigates the attentional and emotional impact of different image types in medical crowdfunding campaigns, and how these images impact donations. Building on signaling theory and evolutionary explanations for the drivers of altruism, we hypothesized that donors will be more likely to support campaigns with images that depict illness than campaigns with images […]
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2026 Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Poker face and steady voice: Gender and reactions to emotional neutrality in crowdfunding
University of St. Gallen + 2 more
While emotional neutrality (e.g., maintaining a neutral face, speaking with a calm voice) can help entrepreneurs project a sought-after image of rationality, the effectiveness of such displays is context-dependent and gendered. In the emotionally resonant world of crowdfunding, the value of neutrality is ambiguous, as it may conflict with audience expectations of expressiveness. Building on […]
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2026 Electronics Open Access Peer-Reviewed
A Cross-Corpus Evaluation on Spontaneous and Dynamic Facial Expressions for Automated Emotion Classification
University College London
Abstract: The growing availability of facial expression databases (FEDBs) has accelerated the development of empathic AI systems designed to promote emotional awareness and well-being. However, most existing systems are trained solely on posed (acted), static databases featuring exaggerated and stereotypical displays. Such portrayals may not accurately represent the real-world expressions that are often subtle, heterogeneous, […]
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2026 Autism Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Discrepancies between feeling and expressing: Perceptions of autistic and non-autistic emotional expressions by non-autistic observers
University of Texas at Dallas
Abstract Non-autistic observers often interpret autistic emotional expressions more negatively, though it is unclear whether this reflects observer bias or genuine differences in autistic people’s emotional experience and expression. To examine this, 20 autistic and 20 non-autistic adults reported the intensity of their felt emotion while re-experiencing video-recorded events eliciting mild and strong happiness, sadness, […]
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2026 Social Science Quarterly Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Voters’ Facial Expression Analysis as a Complement to Traditional Election Polls: Affective Voting in Spanish National Elections in 2023
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos + 1 more
Abstract: Objectives This research jointly combines voters. biometric facial expression analysis while viewing images of candidates and party logos with traditional surveys to define and quantify novel indicators of affective voting. The paper explains the innovative methodology and analyzes the results of the experiment carried out before the 2023 elections in Spain to understand how […]
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2026 Self Published Open Access
Real-time Facial Communication Restores Cooperation After Defection in Social Dilemmas
New York University Abu Dhabi
Facial expressions are central to human interaction, yet their role in strategic decision-making has received limited attention. We investigate how real-time facial communication influences cooperation in repeated social dilemmas. In a laboratory experiment, participants play a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game under two conditions: in one, they observe their counterpart’s facial expressions via genderneutral avatars, and […]
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