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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 + 1 more
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 Scientific Data Open Access Peer-Reviewed
A Multimodal Dataset of Psychological, Physiological, and Behavioral Responses in Diverse Driving Scenarios
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Driver emotion significantly impacts traffic safety, driving behavior, and driving experience, often being directly influenced by different driving scenarios. To explore this relationship, we present EmoRoad, a multimodal dataset capturing emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses under diverse driving scenarios. These scenarios are defined by three dimensions, each with two conditions: road scenario (urban/suburban), traffic density […]
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2026 arXiv (Cornell University) Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Interpretable Multimodal Classification with Linear Discriminant Tree Ensembles
Multimodal affect and behaviour classifiers that fuse heterogeneous text, audio, and visual streams must simultaneously achieve competitive accuracy and produce human-understandable explanations of the cues driving their decisions — a dual objective that current high-capacity models, notably Transformers, only partially address. While Transformers attain strong predictive performance, their distributed representations and deep nonlinearity make it […]
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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 SMU Scholar (Southern Methodist University) Open Access
The Impact of Abnormal Environmental Design on Player Tension in Horror Games
This thesis explores how spatial design in video game levels can be used to generate player tension and sustain fear, in the absence of enemies or direct threats. For the spatial design, the researcher focused on impossible or abnormal environmental structures, such as looping corridors, non-Euclidean layouts, and disorienting transitions, and how they can evoke […]
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2026 Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Facially Expressive People are More Popular in Newly Formed Groups: A Social Network Analysis
Nottingham Trent University
Abstract Facial expression has been proposed as a key mechanism in forming and maintaining social relationships. Humans have particularly expressive faces, but direct evidence linking individual level expressivity to group-level social bonding is limited. Here we examined whether spontaneous facial expressivity impacts social popularity during initial group formation. Participants (72 groups, N = 256) engaged […]
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2026 Scientific Reports Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Beyond Words: Associations between the Maternal Emotional Environment and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
Cardiff University + 1 more
Mothers are rich sources of emotional information for children. Childhood emotional and behavioral problems have been associated with maternal anxiety, depression, Expressed Emotion (EE), and facial expressivity. However, no study has examined these factors together. The current study adopted a multimodal approach to assess how the maternal emotional environment relates to severity of internalizing and […]
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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 BUKETOV BUSINESS REVIEW Open Access Peer-Reviewed
How Emotional Dynamics are Associated with Advertising Recall: Evidence from Facial Expression Analysis in Young Consumers
Almaty Management University
Abstract Background: Emotions elicited by advertisements are known to influence what consumers remember; however, prior studies have often relied on averaged measures. We examined how the dynamics of facial expressions during video advertisements relate to ad recall in young adults. Methods: In a laboratory experiment, 40 participants watched branded video commercials while their facial expressions […]
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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
Zeppelin Universitu00e4t gemeinnu00fctzige GmbH + 5 more
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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