VIEWER RESPONSES TO INTEACTIVE NARRATIVE: A COMPARISION OF INTERACTIVE VERSUS LINEAR VIEWERSHIP IN ALINE AND GROUP SETTING By Sangyeob Lee Based on researches about viewers’ emotional responses to media, the emotional responses to interactive video were studied. Because of the nature of interactive television, the involvement of people during watching the video was expected to be increased. Thi...

PURPOSE Television (TV) watching is the most prevalent sedentary leisure time activity in the United Kingdom. We examined associations between TV viewing time, measured over 10 yr, and two objective measures of physical capability, usual walking speed (UWS) and grip strength. METHODS Community-based participants (n = 8623; 48-92 yr old) enrolled in the European Prospective Investigation of Ca...

social anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. social anxiety and self-consciousness arise from a fear of being closely watched and criticized by others. clinical observation also suggests that some persons with social anxiety disorder may experience intense anger at others upon perceived negative evaluation or when ...

Background/objectives: Practitioners frequently inform us that lying through omitting information is relevant to them, yet this topic has been largely ignored by verbal lie detection researchers. Method: In the present experiment participants watched a video recording of secret meeting between three people. Truth tellers were instructed recall truthfully, and pretend one person (John) was not t...

The habitat of Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota flaviventris) is visited or occupied by a variety of birds and mammals. Species that interact with marmots were divided into three groups: (1) other species of ground-dwelling sciurids, (2) nonpredatory transients, and (3) predators. The rare social interactions between Yellow-bellied Marmots and other ground-dwelling sciurids were chases by marmot...

CONTEXT Physical inactivity contributes to weight gain in adults, but whether this relationship is true for children of different ethnic groups is not well established. OBJECTIVE To assess participation in vigorous activity and television watching habits and their relationship to body weight and fatness in US children. DESIGN Nationally representative cross-sectional survey with an in-perso...

BACKGROUND Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, and the risk of disease increases the earlier in life smoking begins. The prevalence of smoking among US adolescents has increased since 1991. Despite bans on television tobacco advertising, smoking on television remains widespread. OBJECTIVE To determine whether youth with greater exposure to television viewin...

AIMS Research has shown that smoking-related cues are important triggers for craving. The objective of the present study was to test whether smoking cues in movies also function as triggers to evoke craving. To accomplish this, we conducted a pilot study in which we examined smokers' reactivity to smoking cues from a particular movie in a common cue-reactivity paradigm using pictures. In the ma...