Aesthetic evaluations can be highly influenced by a myriad of individual and situational
factors. Interestingly, little is yet known about the possible effects of background music on the …

From scary stories to horror films and haunted houses, the horror genre is wildly popular.
Although horror aims to elicit fear and anxiety, many people with anxiety are horror fans and …

Appearance and voice are essential factors impacting users' affective preferences for
humanoid robots. However, little is known about how the appearance and voice of …

The paper provides novel theoretical and experimental perspectives on the functioning of
linguistic vagueness as an implicit persuasive strategy. It presents an operative definition of …

The past decade has seen an increase in research on narratives in extremist communication
and their role in radicalization processes as well as on both counter-and alternative …

One of the most tangible effects of music is its ability to alter our perception of time. Research
on waiting times and time estimation of musical excerpts has attested its veritable effects …

Purpose: Video is a popular medium for instructing people how to use software. In 2013, van
der Meij and van der Meij proposed eight guidelines for the design of instructional videos for …

Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication reveals how democratic leaders
and dictators exploit multimodal communication to convince or seduce their audiences …

Research examining affective response to media modalities including film, television,
gaming, video streaming, and virtual reality is expanding. This study examined aesthetic …

This article about possible neural underpinning of repeated attraction to watching movies is
dedicated to the memory of Prof. Eran Zaidel, who made outstanding contributions to …