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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Humans are social beings reliant on social interactions.
  • Understanding emotional responses to social stimuli is vital for psychological and physiological research.

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  • To develop and validate dynamic video stimuli of social interactions and perspective-taking.
  • To investigate if emotionally charged hand interaction videos elicit specific subjective and psychophysiological responses.

Main Methods:

  • 81 healthy participants viewed video clips of hand interactions (Love, Neutral, Pain, Rejection) from Agent, Interaction partner, and Observer perspectives.
  • Subjective arousal and valence were rated using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM).
  • Electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) were recorded as psychophysiological indicators.

Main Results:

  • Stimuli significantly affected subjective affect ratings and psychophysiological reactivity.
  • SAM ratings showed arousal varied by emotion and perspective; valence varied by emotion.
  • EDA and HR mirrored subjective findings, with Rejection eliciting the highest responses.

Conclusions:

  • The developed dynamic stimuli effectively induce distinct affective responses.
  • These validated materials serve as a valuable tool for research on affect perception and processing.