Beate Seibt

• 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: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01240
• 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), s 74- 86 . doi: 10.1177/1754073917723167 Full text in Research Archive.
• Hu, Chuan-Peng; Yin, Ji-Xing; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalğar, İlker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C.; Cairo, Athena H.; Čolić, Marija V.; Dursun, Pinar; Frankowska, Natalia; Hadi, Rhonda; Hall, Calvin J.; Hong, Youngki; Joy-Gaba, Jennifer; Lazarević, Dušanka; Lazarević, Ljiljana B; Parzuchowski, Michal; Ratner, Kyle G.; Rothman, David; Sim, Samantha; Simão, Cláudia; Song, Mengdi; Stojilović, Darko; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Brito, Rodrigo; Hennecke, Marie; Jaume-Guazzini, Francisco; Schubert, Thomas; Schütz, Astrid; Seibt, Beate; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & IJzerman, Hans (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data.  ISSN 2052-4463.  6:32, s 1- 7 . doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0029-2 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.
• 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.
• IJzerman, Hans; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalgar, Ilker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C.; Cairo, Athena; Čolić, Marija V.; Dursun, Pinar; Frankowska, Natalia; Hadi, Rhonda; Hall, Calvin J.; Hong, Youngki; Hu, Chuan-Peng; Joy-Gaba, Jennifer; Lazarević, Dušanka; Lazarević, Ljiljana B.; Parzuchowski, Michal; Ratner, Kyle G.; Rothman, David; Sim, Samantha; Simão, Cláudia; Song, Mengdi; Stojilović, Darko; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Brito, Rodrigo; Hennecke, Marie; Jaume-Guazzin, Francisco; Schubert, Thomas; Schütz, Astrid; Seibt, Christa Beate & Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology.  ISSN 2474-7394.  4(1) . doi: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.165
• 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), s 174- 184 . doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998
• 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, s 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; Blaut, Agata; Caballero, A.; Carrera, Pilar; Dalgar, Ilker; Ding, Yi; Dumont, K; Gaulhofer, Valerie; Gračanin, Asmir; Gyenis, Réka; Hu, Chuan-Peng; Kardum, Igor; Lazarević, Ljiljana; Mathew, Leemamol; Mentser, Sari; Nussinson, Ravit; Onuki, Mayuko; Páez, Darío; Pásztor, Anna; Peng, Kaiping; Petrović, Boban; Pizarro, José J.; Schönefeld, Victoria; Śmieja, Magdalena; Tokaji, Akihiko; Vingerhoets, Ad; Vorster, Anja; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina; Zhu, Lei & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages. Emotion.  ISSN 1528-3542.  19(3), s 402- 424 . doi: 10.1037/emo0000450 Full text in Research Archive.
• 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 Julia L. Cassaniti & Usha Menon (ed.),  Universalism without uniformity: Explorations in mind and culture.  University of Chicago Press.  ISBN 022650168X.  5.  s 79 - 100
• 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), s 39 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001820
• 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), s 389- 394 . doi: 10.1037/emo0000271 Full text in Research Archive.
• Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Zhu, Lei; Arriaga, Patrícia; Simão, Cláudia; Nussinson, Ravit & Fiske, Alan Page (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), s 418- 435 . doi: 10.1177/0022022117746240
• 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; Baltatescu, Sergiu; Baran, Tomasz; Bardhwaj, Gopa; Bukowski, Marcin; Chargazia, Melania; Clinton, Amanda; Halik, Murnizam H.J.; Ilisko, Dzintra; Khachatryan, Narine; Klicperova-Baker, Martina; Kostal, Jaroslav; Kovacs, Monika; Letovancova, Eva; Liik, Kadi; Marganski, Alison; Nord, Iwo; Michalowski, Jaroslaw; Paspalanova, Elena; Perez de Leon, Pablo; Techera, José; Rojas, Mariano; Rozycka, Joanna; Sawicka, Aleksandra; Seibt, Beate; Semkiv, Iryna; Tiliouine, Habib; Khanh Truong, Ha; van den Bos, Kees & Wills-Herrera, Eduardo (2017). Measurement of psychological entitlement in 28 countries. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.  ISSN 1015-5759.  33(3), s 207- 217 . doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000286
• Gaspar, Rui; Luis, Silvia; Seibt, Beate; Lima, Maria Luisa; Marcu, Afrodita; Rutsaert, Pieter; Fletcher, Dave; Verbeke, Wim & Barnett, Julie (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), s 533- 549 . doi: 10.1080/13669877.2014.1003318
• 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, s 179- 191 . doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.040
• Gaspar, Rui; Barnett, Julie & Seibt, Beate (2015). Crisis as seen by the individual: the Norm Deviation Approach. Psyecology.  ISSN 2171-1976.  6(1), s 103- 135 . doi: 10.1080/21711976.2014.1002205
• Marcu, Aphrodite; Gaspar, Rui; Rutsaert, Pieter; Seibt, Beate; Fletcher, Dave; Verbeke, Wim & Barnett, Julie (2015). Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat. Public Understanding of Science.  ISSN 0963-6625.  24(5), s 547- 562 . doi: 10.1177/0963662514521106
• Rutsaert, Pieter; Barnett, Julie; Gaspar, Rui; Marcu, Aphrodite; Pieniak, Zuzanna; Seibt, Beate; Lima, Maria Luisa; Fletcher, Dave & Verbeke, Wim (2015). Beyond information seeking: Consumers’ online deliberation about the risks and benefits of red meat. Food Quality and Preference.  ISSN 0950-3293.  39(1), s 191- 201 . doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.07.011
• 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, s 38- 39 . doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001290 Full text in Research Archive.
• 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.
• Verbeke, Wim; Marcu, Aphrodite; Rutsaert, Pieter; Gaspar, Rui; Seibt, Beate; Fletcher, Dave & Barnett, Julie (2015). 'Would you eat cultured meat?': Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Meat Science.  ISSN 0309-1740.  102, s 49- 58 . doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2014.11.013
• Gaspar, Rui; Gorjão, Sara; Seibt, Beate; Lima, Luisa; Barnett, Julie; Moss, Adrian & Wills, Josephine (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, s 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, s 613- 631 . doi: 10.1521/soco.2013.31.5.613

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• Swarbrick, Dana; Grinspun, Noemi; Seibt, Beate & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Quarantine Concerts.
• 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.

• 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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