Slowly Building Excitement

Building excitement for critical thinking

The Initial Stages of Consumer Trust Building in e-Commerce A Study on Finnish Consumers

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a value-based framework for the consumer e-trustbuilding process.Design/methodology/approach – The data collection procedure consisted of two steps. The firstwas a brief questionnaire measuring potential informants’ personal values. From this pool of potentialinformants, 30 were recruited for the interviews: five securityand ...

Identification of Human Response to Virtual 3D Face Stimuli

A comparison of two nonlinear input-output models describing the relationship between human emotion (excitement, frustration and engagement/boredom) signals and a virtual 3D face feature (distance-between-eyes) is introduced in this paper. A method of least squares with projection to stability domain for the building of stable models with the least output prediction error is proposed. Validatio...

Investigating the excitement of children and adolescents and its effect on crime

Background and Aim: Crime and criminal behavior can occur under the influence of various environmental and personality factors. One of the personality traits that is especially important in adolescents is the level of arousal and reaching the optimal level of arousal, which may pose risks for them and is considered as an accusation and ultimately a crime. The aim of this study was to determine ...

Effect of Positive and Negative Embodies on Attractiveness Processes

Background and Objective: Human being as a social-emotional being is constantly adapting to the environment. In this regard, interpersonal excitement is very important in terms of interpersonal communication as well as in terms of social perception. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of positive and negative excitement induced on attention processes. Method...