Beate Seibt

• Swarbrick, Dana; Seibt, Christa Beate; Grinspun, Noemi & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2021). Corona Concerts: The Effect of Virtual Concert Characteristics on Social Connection and Kama Muta. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648448. Show summary

  The popularity of virtual concerts increased as a result of the social distancing requirements of the coronavirus pandemic. We aimed to examine how the characteristics of virtual concerts and the characteristics of the participants influenced their experiences of social connection and kama muta (often labeled “being moved”). We hypothesized that concert liveness and the salience of the coronavirus would influence social connection and kama muta. We collected survey responses on a variety of concert and personal characteristics from 307 participants from 13 countries across 4 continents. We operationalized social connection as a combination of feelings and behaviors and kama muta was measured using the short kama muta scale (Zickfeld et al., 2019). We found that (1) social connection and kama muta were related and predicted by empathic concern, (2) live concerts produced more social connection, but not kama muta, than pre-recorded concerts, and (3) the salience of the coronavirus during concerts predicted kama muta and this effect was completely mediated by social connection. Exploratory analyses also examined the influence of social and physical presence, motivations for concert attendance, and predictors of donations. This research contributes to the understanding of how people can connect socially and emotionally in virtual environments.

• Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Jurek, Paweł; Besta, Tomasz; Korzeniewska, Lubomiła & Seibt, Beate (2020). De-gender them! Gendered vs cooperative division of housework – cross-cultural comparison of Polish and Norwegian students. Current Psychology. ISSN 1046-1310. 39(6), p. 2276–2284. doi: 10.1007/s12144-018-9915-6.
• Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Arriaga, Patrícia; Vilar Santos, S.; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2020). Tears of joy, aesthetic chills and heartwarming feelings: Physiological correlates of Kama Muta. Psychophysiology. ISSN 0048-5772. 57(12). doi: 10.1111/psyp.13662. Full text in Research Archive
• Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Thomsen, Lotte & Seibt, Beate (2020). Moved by Observing the Love of Others: Kama Muta Evoked Through Media Fosters Humanization of Out-Groups. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01240.
• Hu, Chuan-Peng; Yin, Ji-Xing; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalğar, İlker; Weissgerber, Sophia C. & Vergara, Rodrigo C. [Show all 32 contributors for this article] (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 6:32, p. 1–7. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0029-2. Full text in Research Archive
• Fiske, Alan Page; Seibt, Beate & Schubert, Thomas (2019). The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It. Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. 11(1), p. 74–86. doi: 10.1177/1754073917723167. Full text in Research Archive
• Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan P. (2019). Moving Through the Literature: What Is the Emotion Often Denoted Being Moved? Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. doi: 10.1177/1754073918820126. Full text in Research Archive
• Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Seibt, Christa Beate; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan P. (2019). Too Cute for Words: Cuteness Evokes the Heartwarming Emotion of Kama Muta . Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10(387). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00387. Full text in Research Archive
• Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Touching the Base: Heart-Warming Ads from the 2016 U.S. Election Moved Viewers to Partisan Tears. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 33, p. 197–212. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1441128. Full text in Research Archive
• Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Arriaga, Patrícia & Basabe, Nekane [Show all 35 contributors for this article] (2018). Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages . Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 19(3), p. 402–424. doi: 10.1037/emo0000450. Full text in Research Archive
• Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 32(1), p. 174–184. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998.
• IJzerman, Hans; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalgar, Ilker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C. & Cairo, Athena [Show all 31 contributors for this article] (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 4(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.165.
• Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Zhu, Lei; Arriaga, Patrícia & Simão, Cláudia [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). Kama Muta: Similar emotional responses to touching videos across the US, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. ISSN 0022-0221. 49(3), p. 418–435. doi: 10.1177/0022022117746240.
• Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 17(3), p. 389–394. doi: 10.1037/emo0000271. Full text in Research Archive
• Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Empathic Concern is Part of A More General Communal Emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 8(MAY). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00723. Full text in Research Archive
• Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena A.; Piotrowski, Jarosław P.; Cieciuch, Jan; Calogero, Rachel M.; Van Hiel, Alain & Argentero, Piergiorgio [Show all 35 contributors for this article] (2017). Measurement of psychological entitlement in 28 countries. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. ISSN 1015-5759. 33(3), p. 207–217. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000286.
• Fiske, Alan Page; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2017). “Kama muta” or ‘being moved by love’: A bootstrapping approach to the ontology and epistemology of an emotion. In Cassaniti, Julia L. & Menon, Usha (Ed.), Universalism without uniformity: Explorations in mind and culture. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 022650168X. p. 79–100. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226501710.001.0001.
• Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Blomster, Johanna Katarina & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Being moved is a positive emotion, and emotions should not be equated with their vernacular labels. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40(e374). doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001820.
• Gaspar, Rui; Pedro, Claudia; Panagiotopoulos, Panos & Seibt, Beate (2016). Beyond positive or negative: Qualitative sentiment analysis of social media reactions to unexpected stressful events. Computers in Human Behavior. ISSN 0747-5632. 56, p. 179–191. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.040.
• Gaspar, Rui; Luis, Silvia; Seibt, Beate; Lima, Maria Luisa; Marcu, Afrodita & Rutsaert, Pieter [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2016). Consumers' avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge. Journal of Risk Research. ISSN 1366-9877. 19(4), p. 533–549. doi: 10.1080/13669877.2014.1003318.
• Simão, Cláudia & Seibt, Beate (2015). Friendly touch increases gratitude by inducing communal feelings. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00815. Full text in Research Archive
• Gaspar, Rui; Barnett, Julie & Seibt, Beate (2015). Crisis as seen by the individual: the Norm Deviation Approach. Psyecology. ISSN 2171-1976. 6(1), p. 103–135. doi: 10.1080/21711976.2014.1002205.
• Seibt, Beate; Mühlberger, Andreas; Likowski, Katja & Weyers, Peter (2015). Facial mimicry in its social setting. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01122.
• Seibt, Beate; Waldzus, Sven; Schubert, Thomas & Brito, Rodrigo (2015). Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity. Commentary on Duarte et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 38:e157, p. 38–39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001290. Full text in Research Archive
• Verbeke, Wim; Marcu, Aphrodite; Rutsaert, Pieter; Gaspar, Rui; Seibt, Beate & Fletcher, Dave [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2015). 'Would you eat cultured meat?': Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Meat Science. ISSN 0309-1740. 102, p. 49–58. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2014.11.013.
• Rutsaert, Pieter; Barnett, Julie; Gaspar, Rui; Marcu, Aphrodite; Pieniak, Zuzanna & Seibt, Beate [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2015). Beyond information seeking: Consumers’ online deliberation about the risks and benefits of red meat. Food Quality and Preference. ISSN 0950-3293. 39(1), p. 191–201. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.07.011.
• Marcu, Aphrodite; Gaspar, Rui; Rutsaert, Pieter; Seibt, Beate; Fletcher, Dave & Verbeke, Wim [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2015). Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat. Public Understanding of Science. ISSN 0963-6625. 24(5), p. 547–562. doi: 10.1177/0963662514521106.
• Gaspar, Rui; Gorjão, Sara; Seibt, Beate; Lima, Luisa; Barnett, Julie & Moss, Adrian [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2014). Tweeting during food crises: A psychosocial analysis of threat coping expressions in Spain, during the 2011 EHEC outbreak in Europe. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. ISSN 1071-5819. 72, p. 239–254. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.10.001.
• Simão, Cláudia & Seibt, Beate (2014). Gratitude Depends on the Relational Model of Communal Sharing. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 9(1). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086158. Full text in Research Archive
• Seibt, Beate; Weyers, Peter; Likowski, Katja; Pauli, Paul; Mühlberger, Andreas & Hess, Ursula (2013). Subliminal Interdependence Priming Modulates Congruent and Incongruent Facial Reactions to Emotional Display. Social Cognition. ISSN 0278-016X. 31, p. 613–631. doi: 10.1521/soco.2013.31.5.613.

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• Swarbrick, Dana; Grinspun, Noemi; Seibt, Beate & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Food & Paper: Virtually Together: Concerts during the Coronavirus. Show summary

  Government responses to the coronavirus led to unprecedented social distancing measures across the world. These measures were challenging for many; however, musicians adapted quickly by providing online virtual concerts. Anecdotally, viewers commented that virtual concerts made them feel socially connected despite the restrictions and the technologically mediated interactions. Little research has previously examined engagement at virtual concerts (Pursiainen, 2016), and to the best of our knowledge, no research has specifically examined which aspects of virtual concerts promote feelings of togetherness and being moved. We aimed to examine what aspects of the virtual concert experience and participant characteristics 1) make people feel socially connected and 2) make people feel moved. This research addresses the topical question of how people can feel socially connected in a time of social distancing. Both performing artists and societies can benefit from what this study might reveal about the online concert experience.

• Swarbrick, Dana; Seibt, Beate; Grinspun, Noemi & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Virtually Together: Concerts during the Coronavirus. Show summary

  Background Government responses to the coronavirus led to unprecedented social distancing measures across the world. These measures were challenging for many; however, musicians adapted quickly by providing online virtual concerts. Anecdotally, viewers commented that virtual concerts made them feel socially connected despite the restrictions and the technologically mediated interactions. Little research has previously examined engagement at virtual concerts (Pursiainen, 2016), and to the best of our knowledge, no research has specifically examined which aspects of virtual concerts promote feelings of togetherness and being moved. Aims We aimed to examine what aspects of the virtual concert experience and participant characteristics 1) make people feel socially connected and 2) make people feel moved. Method Participants watched at least 15 minutes of an online concert and reported information on the concert characteristics, emotional and social outcomes, and their demographics, motivations, listening technologies, and musical experience. The main outcomes are the Kama Muta Scale (Zickfeld et al., 2019) which measures feeling moved, and the social connectedness between the participant and the other attendees and performers. Mediation analyses will examine what aspects led to increased connectedness and feeling moved. Results 310 participants from 14 countries across the Americas (n = 212), Europe (n = 84), and Asia (n = 12) completed the survey. On average, participants reported on a 5-point scale that they felt moderately connected to the performer (M = 3.7), less connected to other audience members (M =2.3), and moderate feelings of being moved or touched (M = 3.7). Further mediation analyses will aim to understand what concert aspects led to these feelings. Conclusions This research addresses the topical question of how people can feel socially connected in a time of social distancing. Both performing artists and societies can benefit from what this study might reveal about the online concert experience.

• Swarbrick, Dana; Seibt, Beate; Grinspun, Noemi & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Virtually together: Concerts during the coronavirus. Show summary

  Government responses to the coronavirus led to unprecedented social distancing measures across the world. These measures were challenging for many; however, musicians adapted quickly by providing online virtual concerts. Anecdotally, viewers commented that virtual concerts made them feel socially connected despite the restrictions and the technologically mediated interactions. Little research has previously examined engagement at virtual concerts (Pursiainen, 2016), and to the best of our knowledge, no research has specifically examined which aspects of virtual concerts promote feelings of togetherness and being moved. We aimed to examine what aspects of the virtual concert experience and participant characteristics 1) make people feel socially connected and 2) make people feel moved. Participants watched at least 15 minutes of an online concert and reported information on the concert characteristics, emotional and social outcomes, and their demographics, motivations, listening technologies, and musical experience. The main outcomes are the Kama Muta Scale (Zickfeld et al., 2019) which measures feeling moved, and the social connectedness between the participant and the other attendees and performers. Mediation analyses will examine what aspects led to increased connectedness and feeling moved. 310 participants from 14 countries across the Americas (n = 212), Europe (n = 84), and Asia (n = 12) completed the survey. On average, participants reported on a 5-point scale that they felt moderately connected to the performer (M = 3.7), less connected to other audience members (M =2.3), and moderate feelings of being moved or touched (M = 3.7). Further mediation analyses will aim to understand what concert aspects led to these feelings. This research addresses the topical question of how people can feel socially connected in a time of social distancing. Both performing artists and societies can benefit from what this study might reveal about the online concert experience.

• Swarbrick, Dana; Grinspun, Noemi; Seibt, Beate & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Quarantine Concerts.
• Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Alluri, Vinoo & Seibt, Beate (2018). Moved by music: Investigating continuous ratings and contributing musical features. Show summary

  In the past few years, the emotion commonly labelled ‘being moved’ has attracted increasing research interest in the context of the arts (e.g., Wassiliwizky et al., 2015; Eerola et al., 2016). ‘Being moved’ is typically characterized as a mixed or predominantly positive emotion, with joy and sadness as its main ingredients. In the context of music listening, feelings of being moved have been found to mediate the enjoyment of sad music (Vuoskoski & Eerola, 2017). However, little is known about the time course of such experiences. The aim of the present study was to investigate continuously rated experiences of ‘being moved’ in response to music, and how these experiences relate to perceived sadness, happiness, and beauty. 415 participants took part in a pre-registered online experiment where they heard 7 moving music excerpts (3 sad, 3 happy, and 1 neutral; duration 121-186 s) and continuously rated their experience or perception (1 scale per participant per excerpt). Before analyses, the continuous rating data was averaged (within each song), de-trended, and downsampled. Perceived beauty cross-correlated highly with being moved across all excerpts (CCF0 = .59). Being moved correlated with perceived happiness in both joyfully (CCF0 = .66) and sadly (CCF0 = .52) moving excerpts, but with perceived sadness only in the sadly moving excerpts (CCF0 = .48). An exploratory analysis of computationally extracted musical features revealed partly excerpt-dependent patterns of correlations, but RMS energy and spectral entropy – reflecting changes in loudness and broadness of the frequency range – significantly correlated with being moved across most pieces.

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