Serial reproduction of narratives preserves emotional appraisals

Breithaupt, Fritz; Li, Binyan; Kruschke, John K.

doi:10.1080/02699931.2022.2031906

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“…The purpose is both to evaluate the ability of artificial intelligence to predict emotional responses to stories (trained on data from human rates) and to evaluate the extent to which story tellers preserve emotions over repeated retellings. The current study thus follows the study by Breithaupt et al 34 with different analytical tools and different emotions. However, it differs substantially from that study by evaluating the capacity for RoBERTa to encode emotions that are not explicitly named, but appear in complex contexts.…”

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“…A total of 25,728 retellings were collected across all three generations based on stories such as the one provided above. Our analysis offered in this paper includes duplicates of retellings initiated by the same previous story that were excluded in the analysis by Breithaupt et al 34 since they focussed on retellings with complete single chains and thus only analysed 18,738 of the collected retellings.…”

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“…The present study uses RoBERTa to evaluate to what extent emotions are preserved across a unique corpus of multi-generation story retellings ( n = 25,728) from Breithaupt et al 34 . This corpus was collected from the iterated retelling of seed stories ( n = 100), distributed across five factors (embarrassment, joy, sadness, disgust, and risk)—four emotional factors and one situational factor (risk).…”

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“…This corpus was collected from the iterated retelling of seed stories ( n = 100), distributed across five factors (embarrassment, joy, sadness, disgust, and risk)—four emotional factors and one situational factor (risk). “Risk” or riskiness was included in the original study 34 , and we included it in our analysis, as well. According to the risk-as-feeling hypothesis of Loewenstein et al 20 , risk is a response emotion in that people have emotional responses to risky situations, which they in turn use to evaluate relative risks.…”

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“…However, it differs substantially from that study by evaluating the capacity for RoBERTa to encode emotions that are not explicitly named, but appear in complex contexts. In addition, this study also includes substantial data and collected stories excluded by Breithaupt et al 34 . The analysis will focus on elucidating the evolution of emotions in stories as they are retold.…”

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Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings

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Story retelling is a fundamental medium for the transmission of information between individuals and among social groups. Besides conveying factual information, stories also contain affective information. Though natural language processing techniques have advanced considerably in recent years, the extent to which machines can be trained to identify and track emotions across retellings is unknown. This study leverages the powerful RoBERTa model, based on a transformer architecture, to derive emotion-rich story embeddings from a unique dataset of 25,728 story retellings. The initial stories were centered around five emotional events (joy, sadness, embarrassment, risk, and disgust—though the stories did not contain these emotion words) and three intensities (high, medium, and low). Our results indicate (1) that RoBERTa can identify emotions in stories it was not trained on, (2) that the five emotions and their intensities are preserved when they are transmitted in the form of retellings, (3) that the emotions in stories are increasingly well-preserved as they experience additional retellings, and (4) that among the five emotions, risk and disgust are least well-preserved, compared with joy, sadness, and embarrassment. This work is a first step toward quantifying situation-driven emotions with machines.

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Constitution and stabilization offers of collective ‘right-wing’ identity in religion-related communication

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ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Beitrag zeigt narrative Konstitutions- und Stabilisierungsangebote kollektiver ,rechter‘ Identität in religionsbezogener Kommunikation auf. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Affordanzen identitätsbildender Identifikationsangebote in der Konstruktion bestimmter Narrative angelegt sind. Exemplarisch zeigt sich dies über die Konturierung eines rechtspopulistischen (religiös getönten) Masternarrativs: Forcierte Distinktionsbestimmungen zielen auf eine bestimmte Strukturierung der Wahrnehmung sozialer Realität ab. Dazu bedienen sich Kommunikationsteilnehmer:innen auf synchroner Ebene der Figur des Anti-Elitismus, in diachroner Perspektive der Vitalisierung der Vorstellung eines ,heartlands‘, das in scharfem Kontrast zur krisenhaft beschriebenen Gegenwart steht. Beide Momente der potenziell (gruppen-)identitätsbildenden Angebote, so ist anzunehmen, begünstigen nicht zuletzt affektiv die diskursive Rezeptivität und Produktivität nicht nur des Masternarrativs, sondern auch entsprechender rechtspopulistischer Narrativfragmente. Wenngleich Gary Alan Fines Klassifizierung sogenannter „movement stories“ nicht eins zu eins auf das Material des Projektes anwendbar ist, so lässt die Relektüre des Materials mit der Brille der Ausdifferenzierung in „horror stories“, „war stories“ und „happy endings“ noch einmal die unterschiedlichen narrativen Möglichkeiten und Realisierungen potenziell identitätsstiftender Identifikationsangebote in rechtspopulistischer, gar als rechtsextrem zu bezeichnenden Kommunikationen aufleuchten.

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Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment's specific conditions. According to this view, which Alan Newell once characterized as “playing twenty questions with nature,” theory is advanced one experiment at a time, and the integration of disparate findings is assumed to happen via the scientific publishing process. In this article, we argue that the process of integration is at best inefficient, and at worst it does not, in fact, occur. We further show that the challenge of integration cannot be adequately addressed by recently proposed reforms that focus on the reliability and replicability of individual findings, nor simply by conducting more or larger experiments. Rather, the problem arises from the imprecise nature of social and behavioral theories and, consequently, a lack of commensurability across experiments conducted under different conditions. Therefore, researchers must fundamentally rethink how they design experiments and how the experiments relate to theory. We specifically describe an alternative framework, integrative experiment design, which intrinsically promotes commensurability and continuous integration of knowledge. In this paradigm, researchers explicitly map the design space of possible experiments associated with a given research question, embracing many potentially relevant theories rather than focusing on just one. The researchers then iteratively generate theories and test them with experiments explicitly sampled from the design space, allowing results to be integrated across experiments. Given recent methodological and technological developments, we conclude that this approach is feasible and would generate more-reliable, more-cumulative empirical and theoretical knowledge than the current paradigm—and with far greater efficiency.

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Serial reproduction of narratives preserves emotional appraisals

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Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings

Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings

Constitution and stabilization offers of collective ‘right-wing’ identity in religion-related communication

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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