Sadness is reduced by virtual hugging

IF 3.8 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Applied psychology. Health and well-being Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1111/aphw.70007

Xinyan Wang, Qiuhong Liu, Xiang Li, Xixi Zheng, Bernhard Hommel, Ke Ma

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Abstract

This study investigated the possible effect of virtual interpersonal hugging on alleviating individual sad emotion. Using emotional self-assessment and skin conductance responses, we recorded subjective and objective indicators before and after sad emotion induction, and after virtual interpersonal hugging, and assessed the role of (1) the characteristics of hugging, (2) participants' familiarity with the virtual hugging target, and (3) participants' face resemblance and perspective toward the virtual me-avatar initiating the hugging. Results showed that (1) hugging a virtual target, but not the mere action of hugging, improves the regulation of sad emotion, (2) visual information dominates haptic information in the virtual hugging process, (3) facial familiarity of virtual targets of hugging and facial resemblance of the me-avatar to participants do not affect the emotion regulation effect, and (4) first-person perspective of the virtual me-avatar influences both perceived ownership of hugging action and emotion regulation. Overall, virtual interpersonal hugging contributes to the regulation of sad emotion.

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虚拟拥抱可以减少悲伤

本研究探讨虚拟人际拥抱对缓解个体悲伤情绪的可能作用。采用情绪自我评价和皮肤电导反应，分别记录了悲伤情绪诱导前后和虚拟人际拥抱前后的主客观指标，并评估了(1)拥抱特征、(2)参与者对虚拟拥抱目标的熟悉程度、(3)参与者对发起拥抱的虚拟我-化身的面部相似度和视角的作用。结果表明：(1)拥抱虚拟目标而非单纯的拥抱动作能改善悲伤情绪的调节；(2)在虚拟拥抱过程中，视觉信息主导触觉信息；(3)虚拟拥抱目标的面部熟悉度和虚拟我-化身的面部相似度不影响情绪调节效果；(4)虚拟我-化身的第一人称视角对拥抱动作的感知所有权和情绪调节都有影响。总的来说，虚拟的人际拥抱有助于调节悲伤情绪。

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Applied psychology. Health and well-being PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

2.90%

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期刊介绍： Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Association of Applied Psychology. It was established in 2009 and covers applied psychology topics such as clinical psychology, counseling, cross-cultural psychology, and environmental psychology.