Wanting without enjoying: The social value of sharing experiences

Jolly, Eshin; Tamir, Diana; Burum, Bethany; Mitchell, Jason W.

doi:10.31234/osf.io/b3zju

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“…. $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419886 relationship quality, and feelings of closeness [3,9,10,15,21]. Most of our study participants agreed with these conclusions, reporting several barriers to collocated shared recreation with loved ones, while also expressing interest in technologies which may bridge these barriers.…”

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Playing Together while Apart

Haqq

McCrickard

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Sharing recreational experiences with loved ones can improve wellbeing, experience enjoyment, relationship quality, and feelings of closeness. Despite these benefits, study participants report numerous barriers to shared recreation with loved ones. Among others, these include differences in recreational preferences and safety measures associated with the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In this paper we examine how loved ones use, and wish to use, technology to play together while apart. We take into account reported barriers to shared recreation and present the Planet Runner technology probe, a two-player digital-physical game which mediates a shared interdependent asymmetric recreational experience involving the outdoors. We share early findings from an exploratory study and conclude by highlighting design considerations for asymmetric games intended to mediate shared remote play experiences involving the outdoors. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools; Human computer interaction (HCI); Interactive systems and tools.

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Playing Together while Apart

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McCrickard

2020

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“…Why do individuals feel more connected after a shared experience? It has long been speculated that individuals form tighter social bonds after sharing a meal, watching a movie, or attending a concert or sporting event together and that they value and prefer shared experiences over solo experiences 1 . People may seek shared experiences because they provide opportunities for comparing their views of reality with others' 62 through which individuals can satisfy epistemic motives such as wanting to establish socially approved beliefs and worldviews 63 or relational motives such as the need for a sense of belonging 64 .…”

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“…People value shared experiences 1 . Experiences in large groups such as religious ceremonies, music concerts, and sporting events often involve synchronization in movements, vocalizations, feelings, and thoughts with others, which has been thought to strengthen group cohesion [2][3][4][5][6] .…”

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Synchronized affect in shared experiences strengthens social connection

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Chang²

2020

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People structure their days to experience events with others. We gather to eat meals, watch TV, and attend concerts together. What constitutes a shared experience and how does it manifest in dyadic behavior? The present study investigates how shared experiences - measured through emotional, motoric, and cognitive alignment - promote social bonding. We recorded facial expressions of participants as they watched four episodes of a TV show for a total of four hours with another participant. After each episode, participants rated their impressions of each character and reported how connected they felt to their viewing partner. We found that participants displayed temporally and spatially synchronized emotional facial expressions and the amount of synchrony predicted perceived social connection between viewing partners. Dyads who shared similar impressions of characters also reported feeling more connected. We found that all three of these processes independently contributed to a latent factor of a shared experience that predicted social connection with temporal synchrony explaining the most variance. Our findings suggest that the development of interpersonal affiliations in shared experiences emerges from shared affective experiences comprised of multiple synchronous processes and demonstrate that these complex interpersonal processes can be studied in a holistic and unified framework leveraging naturalistic experimental designs.

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“…Recently, Jolly et al 14 suggested that such behavioral changes represent enhanced communicative or motivational behavior rather than an elevated subjective experience in co-presence situations. In a series of eight experiments, they failed to find an effect of shared attention on participants' emotional experience while they watched emotional video clips, although participants seemed to value shared experiences and were motivated to engage in them.…”

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Behavioral and EEG Measures Show no Amplifying Effects of Shared Attention on Attention or Memory

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Nahum

Stolk

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Shared attention experiments examine the potential differences in function or behavior when stimuli are experienced alone or in the presence of others, and when simultaneous attention of the participants to the same stimulus or set is involved. Previous work has found enhanced reactions to emotional stimuli in social situations, yet these changes might represent enhanced communicative or motivational purposes. This study examines whether viewing emotional stimuli in the presence of another person influences attention to or memory for the stimulus. Participants passively viewed emotionally-valenced stimuli while completing another task (counting flowers). Each participant performed this task both alone and in a shared attention condition (simultaneously with another person in the same room) while EEG signals were measured. Recognition of the emotional pictures was later measured. A significant shared attention behavioral effect was found in the attention task but not in the recognition task. Compared to event-related potential responses for neutral pictures, we found higher P3b response for task relevant stimuli (flowers), and higher Late Positive Potential (LPP) responses for emotional stimuli. However, no main effect was found for shared attention between presence conditions. To conclude, shared attention may therefore have a more limited effect on cognitive processes than previously suggested. Humans are social animals that often prefer acting together, rather than alone 1,2. Potential differences in function or behavior when experienced alone or in the presence of others are referred to as co-presence effects that can be either generated from the mere presence of another or from a shared experience that occurs in the physical or psychological presence of another person 3-5. When simultaneous attention of the participants to the same stimulus or set is involved, shared experience overlaps with the term shared attention 4,6. Indeed, both shared experience and shared attention have been found to affect cognitive function and behavior, such as attention to a target stimuli 3,7 , social learning 8 , memory 9,10 , motivation 11 , judgment 12 and inhibitory control 13. Specifically, shared attention has been found to amplify these processes (etc. memories, emotions, and behavioral learning) 4,6. For example, higher manifestation of social learning was found in the shared attention condition compared to an unshared condition 8. Several 5,14,15 studies have examined the effect of shared attention in emotional contexts, but yielded mixed results. For example, Shteynberg and colleagues examined online shared attention effects on reactions to emotional stimuli. In a series of studies, they presented either short clips or pictures to participants and found enhancement of the subjective feelings (self-reported) for emotional stimuli in the online presence of another person. Specifically, scary advertisements led to higher "scariness" scores in the shared attention condition compared to the same stimuli viewed alone. Similar...

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Wanting without enjoying: The social value of sharing experiences

Cited by 10 publications

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Playing Together while Apart

Playing Together while Apart

Synchronized affect in shared experiences strengthens social connection

Behavioral and EEG Measures Show no Amplifying Effects of Shared Attention on Attention or Memory

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