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The influence of film music on moral judgments of movie scenes and felt emotions
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugĂ€nglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.Music can modulate perceptions, actions, and judgments in everyday situations. The aim of this study was to investigate a potential influence of music on moral judgments in the context of film reception. In the course of an online experiment, 252 participants were assigned to three different experimental conditions (no, positive, or negative music). Participants were requested to assess actions shown in two 2â3-minute audio-visual film excerpts with regard to their perceived moral rightness and to report induced emotions after watching the film clips. Afterwards, they were asked to complete the MFQ-30 questionnaire measuring the foundations of their moral judgments. Results revealed that in one of four cases (i.e. happiness in film excerpt 1), music had a significant effect on recipientsâ emotions and also indirectly influenced their moral judgment. In three of four cases, however, the intended emotion induction through film music did not succeed, and thus a significant indirect influence of music on moral judgment was not found. Furthermore, associations between moral foundations, perceived rightness of action, and induced emotions were observed. Future lab studies are indicated to investigate potential moderating influences of the experimental environment on emotion induction through film music
The Temperature Dependence of the QCD Running Coupling
We study the running of the QCD coupling with the momentum squared ()
and the temperature scales in the high temperature limit (), using a
mass dependent renormalization scheme to build the Renormalization Group
Equations. The approach used guaranty gauge invariance, through the use of the
Hard Thermal Loop approximation, and independence of the vertex chosen to
renormalize the coupling. In general, the dependence of the coupling with the
temperature is not logarithmical, although in the region the
logarithm approximation is reasonable. Finally, as known from Debye screening,
color charge is screened in the coupling. The number of flavors, however, is
anti-screened.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
New Approaches to Target Mass Corrections
We analyze different prescriptions for the inclusion of target mass effects
in the extraction of parton distributions from the measured structure
functions. As a main result, the problem of defining parton distributions in
the presence of mass is an open problem.Comment: 4 pages. Presented at HiX2010, Jlab, October 201
The effects of teacher attending and responding behaviours on pupil achievement : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Education at Massey University
This thesis reports a field experiment of teachers' non-verbal attending and verbal responding behaviours and their relation to pupil achievement. It was expected that teachers who used higher level non-verbal and verbal skills would have children who achieved at a higher level. A group of fifteen teachers, five in three different schools, were video-taped at the beginning of the school year. Because all of the teachers were functioning at low levels on scales of attending and responding, one group of teachers was given ten hours of training in these skills. One other group of five teachers was given a placebo treatment and the remaining group received no treatment. All of these teachers were video-taped at the end of the school year. All of the children were tested at the beginning and the end of the school year on standardized achievement measures. Analysis of the data revealed that ten hours of training given one hour at a time at intervals of one week was not sufficient to establish average classroom conditions that were significantly different from the other experimental treatments. The trained teachers did improve in the expected direction more than the other teachers. The students of the two teachers who responded at the highest levels were compared to the students of the two teachers who responded at the lowest level. The results supported the hypothesis. From this sample of teachers those who were female, who responded to feelings, who had students from a higher socio-economic status, who were just beginning to teach, and who attended and responded appropriately had students with higher results
New Distribution Records of \u3ci\u3eSomatochlora Hineana\u3c/i\u3e (Odonata: Corduliidae)
New records for Somatochlora hineana in Michigan are reported, extending the known distribution of the species by nearly 200 km to the northeast. Habitats are rich fens with shallow creeks, springs, small pools, and marl deposits
Mixed Volume Techniques for Embeddings of Laman Graphs
Determining the number of embeddings of Laman graph frameworks is an open
problem which corresponds to understanding the solutions of the resulting
systems of equations. In this paper we investigate the bounds which can be
obtained from the viewpoint of Bernstein's Theorem. The focus of the paper is
to provide the methods to study the mixed volume of suitable systems of
polynomial equations obtained from the edge length constraints. While in most
cases the resulting bounds are weaker than the best known bounds on the number
of embeddings, for some classes of graphs the bounds are tight.Comment: Thorough revision of the first version. (13 pages, 4 figures
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