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The present study pursued a dual purpose: the primary aim of the study was to test the role of non-verbal cues in eliciting emotions; the second aim was to verify if the participants’ ability in communication decoding was related to an unconscious coherent emotional activation. Participants were invited to observe a mute video with a job interview. Three different conditions were considered: one clip where the interview was characterized by racial prejudice, one with sexual prejudice and a control condition. An ad hoc questionnaire was administered to test participant’s observations. Participants’ facial expressions were also recorded. Results evidenced a great participants’ ability in detecting emotional content of a communication by concentrating only on non-verbal signals and a corresponding unconscious emotional activation. Both evidences will be framed in the most recent theoretical debates.
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De Simone, F., Collina, S., Nuzzo, M. (2022). Negative Emotions Induced by Non-verbal Video Clips. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82193-7_55
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