Emotional Arousal and Valence and the Effects of Civic Education

• Authors: Patryk Wawrzyński , Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses the influence of FaceReader-coded emotional arousal and valence on the effectiveness of civic education. The experimental design allowed the authors to observe relationships between emotional responsiveness and memorisation, attitude change, and prosocial behaviour. In the study with 90 adult participants, we video-recorded facial expressions while watching three parallel versions of a narrative on anti-communist opposition in Poland. The analysis of collected data suggested that emotional arousal is associated with prosocial behaviour and the valence of signalling with an attitude change, while cognitive effects are not related to emotional responsiveness. Moreover, civic education depends on the triad of emotions: sadness, happiness, and disgust.

Keywords

EN

arousal; valence; civic education; prosocial behaviour; attitude change

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Pages: 168-179

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Patryk Wawrzyński

• University of Szczecin, Poland
• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000309111068

author

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000242018028

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.23.71.1.13

Biblioteka Nauki

2191735