Smartphones: A Game Changer for Psychological Research

He, Wei Wang Jibo

doi:10.4172/2165-7556.1000e136

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“…Nevertheless, during the last 2 years in which travel restrictions and lockdowns were frequent, information and communications technology (ICT) were the only tools available for research. On the other hand, some authors consider that the use of ICT tools (mainly smartphones) for psychological research has some advantages such as a more naturalistic approach (Wang & He, 2015 ).…”

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Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions

Duque,

Picado,

Salgado

et al. 2023

Behav Res

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Images of emotional facial expressions are often used in emotion research, which has promoted the development of different databases. However, most of these standardized sets of images do not include images from infants under 2 years of age, which is relevant for psychology research, especially for perinatal psychology. The present study aims to validate the edited version of the Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF) in a large sample of participants. The original set of 119 pictures was edited. The pictures were cropped to remove nonrelevant information, fitted in an oval window, and converted to grayscale. Four hundred and eighty participants (72.9% women) took part in the study, rating the images on five dimensions: depicted emotion, clarity, intensity, valence, and genuineness. Valence scores were useful for discriminating between positive, negative, and neutral facial expressions. Results revealed that women were more accurate at recognizing emotions in children. Regarding parental status, parents, in comparison with nonparents, rated neutral expressions as more intense and genuine. They also rated sad, angry, disgusted, and fearful faces as less negative, and happy expressions as less positive. The editing and validation of the E-TIF database offers a useful tool for basic and experimental research in psychology.

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Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions

Duque,

Picado,

Salgado

et al. 2023

Behav Res

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Understanding and Analyzing Social Network Structure Among University Students

Hossen

Islam

2021

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Mobile phone arguably is one of the most reached and used technology in human history. Technology has become ubiquitous in the life of human beings. Equipped with multiple sensors and devices, smartphones can record each and every action, psychological and environmental states of users, making it a goldmine of rich data about and insight into the dynamics of human communication, human behavior, relationships, and social interaction. As a source of data for empirical research, this device has gotten much attention from scholars in various disciplines like sociology, social psychology, urban studies, communication and media studies, public health, epidemiology, and computer science. This research tries to understand the structure of social networks of university students by investigating their communication patterns using self-reported mobile phone data. We collected behavioral data for one month using a Call Log Analytics mobile phone app. The data contained information about respondents’ contacts, date and time of call, duration of the call, call type (e.g., incoming, outgoing, missed), and frequency of the call. We used UCINET to analyze the data. In this investigation, we can find those students who are connected to most of the classmates and maintain a strong relationship and perform a task successfully using the values of eigenvector, closeness, and betweenness centrality, respectively. Moreover, this study also helps us to find out the pattern of the students using contact duration, incoming and outgoing calls.

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Smartphones: A Game Changer for Psychological Research

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions

Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions

Understanding and Analyzing Social Network Structure Among University Students

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