The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of
computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of …

Background: Approach and avoidance bias (AAB) describes automatic behavioral
tendencies to react toward environmental stimuli regarding their emotional valence …

Pictures with affective content have been extensively used in scientific studies of emotion
and sexuality. However, only a few standardized picture sets have been developed that offer …

There have been many published picture corpora. However, more than half of the world's
population speaks more than one language and, as language and culture are intertwined …

Empathy emerges as a pivotal skill in creative writing, yet previous studies lack an
understanding of empathy's multidimensionality and specific impact of its facets on the …

Introduction While the fact that visual stimuli synthesized by Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
may evoke emotional reactions is documented, the precise mechanisms that connect the …

To support investigation of the etiology and psychophysiology of medical traumatic stress,
we developed a standardized set of emotionally-salient medical images, called the 'MEDical …

Emotion elicitation using emotional film clips is one of the most common and ecologically
valid methods in Affective Computing. However, selecting and validating appropriate …

Visual sexual stimuli (VSS) are often used to induce affective responses in experimental
research, but can also be useful in the assessment and treatment of sexual disorders (eg …

Creating a convincing affective robot behavior is a challenging task. In this paper, we are
trying to coordinate between different modalities of communication: speech, facial …