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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger +2 more
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Religiosity and Spirituality of German-Speaking Pilgrims on the Way of St. James
The article examines the intensity and structure of religiosity and spirituality of German-speaking foot and bicycle pilgrims on the Way of St. James within the framework of a multidimensional model of religiosity.
Detlef Lienau +2 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect
Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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Realism And Empirical Evidence [PDF]
We define realism using a slightly modified version of the EPR criterion of reality. This version is strong enough to show that relativity is incomplete.
Schmelzer, Ilja
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The research field related to finance has made great progress in recent years due to the development of information processing technology and the availability of large-scale data. This special issue is a collection of 16 articles on empirical finance and one book review.
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The current study examined the musical taste of musicology students as compared to a control student group. Participants (n=1003) completed an online survey regarding the frequency with which they listened to 22 musical styles. A factor analysis revealed
Paul eElvers +3 more
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A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements
Ekman famously contended that there are different channels of emotional expression (face, voice, body), and that emotion recognition ability confers an adaptive advantage to the individual.
Julia F. Christensen +7 more
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Mimological Reveries?Disconfirming the Hypothesis of Phono - Emotional Iconicity in Poetry
The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ...
Maria Kraxenberger, Winfried Menninghaus
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Eye-Tracking in Interpreting Studies: A Review of Four Decades of Empirical Studies
It has been four decades since eye-tracking was first used in interpreting studies, and recent years has witnessed a growing interest in the application of this method, which holds great potential for offering a look into the “black box” of interpreting ...
Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Xinyu Wang, Haiming Xu
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