The Cognitive Information Effect of Televised News

Lăzăroiu, George; Pera, Aurel; Ştefănescu-Mihăilă, Ramona O.; Bratu, Sofia; Mircică, Nela

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01165

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“…Smartphones may be instrumental in sharing any instinctive reflection or experience with users’ social networks. Egocentric teenagers’ validation-seeking on social media, especially as a manner to surmount social exclusion ( 54 ), may have unwelcome repercussions ( 38 ) and eventually results in a developing model of counterproductive behavior. Earlier teenage egocentrism predicts later social media disclosure, PSU, and interactional stress, through increased validation-seeking.…”

Section: Stress Subjective and Psychological Well-being And Psumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Higher sensation seeking persons may be particularly at risk of PSU. Smartphones may enable individuals to be involved in a range of undertakings (38) and assist them in alleviating leisure boredom. More significant levels of leisure boredom and sensation seeking (39) have a positive link with a higher degree of smartphone overuse.…”

Section: Addictive Smartphone Behavior and Physical Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Psychology of Addictive Smartphone Behavior in Young Adults: Problematic Use, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Stress

Pera

2020

Front. Psychiatry

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This review enhances the existing literature on relationships between problematic smartphone use (PSU), psychopathology, addictive personality, and online social engagement as regards young adults, giving attention to predictive determinants of addictive behavior in smartphone usage. My article cumulates previous research findings on the psychology of addictive smartphone behavior in terms of problematic use, social anxiety, and depressive stress by focusing on the relationship among mobile social media usage, smartphone addiction risk, mental health issues, and individual well-being. The inspected collected findings prove that depression and social anxiety constitute risk determinants for greater PSU and that particular categories of smartphone applications are positively related to well-being. State anxiety and motivations represent significant predictors of PSU. High PSU affects participation in social engagement. As limitations in the current review, my results point towards relevant avenues of research on social consequences of teenagers’ smartphone problematic use. Future directions should clarify whether compulsive smartphone use adversely affects both mental and physical health in the long run.

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Section: Addictive Smartphone Behavior and Physical Healthmentioning

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The Psychology of Addictive Smartphone Behavior in Young Adults: Problematic Use, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Stress

Pera

2020

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Also, information transmitted by TV can shape what individuals take in, influence their perceptions, convictions, and views regarding prevailing events and issues, and convey knowledge and interpretation (Mihăilă and Branişte, 2021 ). The interest about facial recognition and emotion sensing technologies is demonstrated by its application in various environments like predictive policing to optimize the police performance (Bacalu, 2021 ) and in the development of reality-based body enhancement technologies aimed at the algorithmic evaluation of body image and specifically the perception of the face (Lăzăroiu et al, 2017 ).…”

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Measuring the Candidates' Emotions in Political Debates Based on Facial Expression Recognition Techniques

2022

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This article presents the analysis of the main Spanish political candidates for the elections to be held on April 2019. The analysis focuses on the Facial Expression Analysis (FEA), a technique widely used in neuromarketing research. It allows to identify the micro-expressions that are very brief, involuntary. They are signals of hidden emotions that cannot be controlled voluntarily. The video with the final interventions of every candidate has been post-processed using the classification algorithms given by the iMotions's AFFDEX platform. We have then analyzed these data. Firstly, we have identified and compare the basic emotions showed by each politician. Second, we have associated the basic emotions with specific moments of the candidate's speech, identifying the topics they address and relating them directly to the expressed emotion. Third, we have analyzed whether the differences shown by each candidate in every emotion are statistically significant. In this sense, we have applied the non-parametric chi-squared goodness-of-fit test. We have also considered the ANOVA analysis in order to test whether, on average, there are differences between the candidates. Finally, we have checked if there is consistency between the results provided by different surveys from the main media in Spain regarding the evaluation of the debate and those obtained in our empirical analysis. A predominance of negative emotions has been observed. Some inconsistencies were found between the emotion expressed in the facial expression and the verbal content of the message. Also, evidences got from statistical analysis confirm that the differences observed between the various candidates with respect to the basic emotions, on average, are statistically significant. In this sense, this article provides a methodological contribution to the analysis of the public figures' communication, which could help politicians to improve the effectiveness of their messages identifying and evaluating the intensity of the expressed emotions.

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“…Finally, the abundance of news may cause news avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, news narratives demand cognitive skills from news consumers as they have to process this new information ( Lăzăroiu et al, 2017 ). Especially the rapid sharing of information puts news consumers under pressure and may overload their cognitive abilities ( Gunter, 2015 ; Lăzăroiu et al, 2017 ).…”

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“…In general, news narratives demand cognitive skills from news consumers as they have to process this new information ( Lăzăroiu et al, 2017 ). Especially the rapid sharing of information puts news consumers under pressure and may overload their cognitive abilities ( Gunter, 2015 ; Lăzăroiu et al, 2017 ). These feelings of news overload could lead to news avoidance as well ( Song et al, 2017 ).…”

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Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Despite growing concerns that children (8–13 years old) tend to avoid the news, the reasons why have received little research attention. Therefore, the current study aims to develop and test a model conceptualizing the relations between children’s news consumption, news avoidance, emotional responses (negative emotions and anxiety-related behaviors), and parent and child mitigation strategies. The model was tested using data collected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current, preregistered, survey study was part of a longitudinal project and used data from the second wave. Data were collected in November/December 2020 among 510 children (Mage = 10.40; 53.72% girls). Findings showed that children who consumed more news during the pandemic avoided pandemic news less often. Children who experienced more anxiety-related behaviors regarding pandemic news avoided pandemic news more often. The relation between news consumption and emotional responses was stronger for children who experienced restrictive parental mediation more often, indicating that this was not an effective parental mediation strategy for tempering their emotional responses. Children with higher levels of emotional responses used reactive coping strategies more often. However, this did not seem to be an effective strategy against pandemic news avoidance because none of the strategies had a negative relation with pandemic news avoidance. Distancing was even positively related to pandemic news avoidance. Although the current study was not able to fully unravel how news avoidance-related constructs relate to one another, we were able to get some important insights guiding future research. Specifically, it is of crucial importance to unravel the mechanisms that increase the chance of children’s news avoidance and those that mitigate it, to build interventions to counteract news avoidance and to protect children from the negative emotional consequences by news consumption.

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The Cognitive Information Effect of Televised News

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

The Psychology of Addictive Smartphone Behavior in Young Adults: Problematic Use, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Stress

The Psychology of Addictive Smartphone Behavior in Young Adults: Problematic Use, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Stress

Measuring the Candidates' Emotions in Political Debates Based on Facial Expression Recognition Techniques

Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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