Analysis of emotions based on the finger pressure pattern: measured on Clynes' Sentograph
Project/Area Number |
62510078
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Psychology
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Research Institution | Doshisha University |
Principal Investigator |
HAMA Haruyoko Doshisha University, Department of Psychology, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (60066107)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUYAMA Yoshinori Doshisha University, Department of Psychology, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10066045)
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Project Period (FY) |
1987 – 1989
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1989)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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Keywords | Emotion / Sentograph / Sentogram / Joy / Sadness / Anger / Finger-pressure / 圧力パターン / 怒り。 |
Research Abstract |
We examined the transient finger-pressure when subjects were exposed to the schematic faces which depict "anger," "joy," "sadness." and "no emotion," and to two nonfacial stimuli. In Experiment 1. nine undergraduate women were asked to discriminate between those target stimuli and the nontarget stimuli by pressing on the finger rest of Clynes' Sentograph, without informing subjects that this experiment was to measure emotions. In Experiment 2. the same subjects were asked to express their feelings evoked by the schematic faces by pressing on the finger rest. Results indicate that even on the discrimination task, differentiation in the finger-pressure waveforms among emotions was observed. Such differentiation suggests the possibility of measuring the expression of emotions with finger pressure even when the subjects are not aware their emotions are being measured. The identifiable characteristics of the waveforms are the long duration for "sadness" and the strong intensity of pressure for "anger."
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