Unspoken Emotions in Movies

Chang, He; Ivonin, Leonid; Díaz, Marta; Català, Andreu; Chen, Wei; Rauterberg, Matthias

doi:10.1007/s00287-014-0823-3

“…Perhaps the closest that previous work has come to character classification is Carl Jung's notion of an "archetype" (Chang et al, 2013(Chang et al, , 2014Faber & Mayer, 2009;Jung, 1921Jung, /1971Jung, , 1968, as manifested in character-archetypes in folk tales, myths, dreams, religion, fantasies, literature, and other art forms. Work inspired by Jung -spanning from mythology (Campbell, 1949) to mass media studies (Faber & Mayer, 2009) -has honed in on 12 basic character-archetypes.…”

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A classification scheme for literary characters

Berry¹,

Brown²

2017

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There is no established classification scheme for literary characters in narrative theory short of generic categories like protagonist vs. antagonist or round vs. flat. This is so despite the ubiquity of stock characters that recur across media, cultures, and historical time periods. We present here a proposal of a systematic psychological scheme for classifying characters from the literary and dramatic fields based on a modification of the Thomas-Kilmann (TK) Conflict Mode Instrument used in applied studies of personality. The TK scheme classifies personality along the two orthogonal dimensions of assertiveness and cooperativeness. To examine the validity of a modified version of this scheme, we had 142 participants provide personality ratings for 40 characters using two of the Big Five personality traits as well as assertiveness and cooperativeness from the TK scheme. The results showed that assertiveness and cooperativeness were orthogonal dimensions, thereby supporting the validity of using a modified version of TK's two-dimensional scheme for classifying characters.

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“…Regarding the unconscious emotions in media content, some preliminary studies have revealed that specific narratives in media content would induce unique physiological patterns while the audience is unaware of it (Ivonin et al , 2014(Ivonin et al , 2015Chang et al 2014b). It is promising to explore further with this direction.…”

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Unconscious Emotions in Media Content

Chang¹,

Ivonin²,

Rauterberg³

2015

Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies

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Stories and human society are inseparable. Before human history, our ancestors created myths as the oldest form of narratives. Due to the advances of digital media, stories are nowadays communicated in various ways. Yet the structure and the key elements of modern stories still remain the same. This chapter starts with a discussion about the relationship between stories and human society. It is curious that human beings keep being intrigued by stories of similar structures and scenes. A reasonable speculation is that these identical components of stories might induce emotional experiences at an unconscious level. Can emotions be unconscious? While the answer to this question is still open to debate, more and more empirical evidence suggests that humans might have unconscious emotions in certain conditions. In order to provide a holistic theoretical overview focusing on unconscious emotions, a review of contemporary theories, models, and measures of emotion is provided. This review illustrates an integrated overview of research into unconscious emotions and also points out potential challenges and promising approaches that could inform future research on unconscious emotions in media content.

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Unconscious Emotions in Media Content

Chang¹,

Ivonin²,

Rauterberg³

2016

Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies

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Stories and human society are inseparable. Before human history, our ancestors created myths as the oldest form of narratives. Due to the advances of digital media, stories are nowadays communicated in various ways. Yet the structure and the key elements of modern stories still remain the same. This chapter starts with a discussion about the relationship between stories and human society. It is curious that human beings keep being intrigued by stories of similar structures and scenes. A reasonable speculation is that these identical components of stories might induce emotional experiences at an unconscious level. Can emotions be unconscious? While the answer to this question is still open to debate, more and more empirical evidence suggests that humans might have unconscious emotions in certain conditions. In order to provide a holistic theoretical overview focusing on unconscious emotions, a review of contemporary theories, models, and measures of emotion is provided. This review illustrates an integrated overview of research into unconscious emotions and also points out potential challenges and promising approaches that could inform future research on unconscious emotions in media content.

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Unspoken Emotions in Movies

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A classification scheme for literary characters

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