Everyday Surprise? Participants of International Exchanges Facing Culture Shock

Facing the partner influences exchanges in force

Many studies in psychology have documented how the behaviour of verbally communicating pairs is affected by social factors such as the partner's gaze. However, few studies have examined whether physically interacting pairs are influenced by social factors. Here, we asked two partners to exchange forces with one another, where the goal was to accurately replicate the force back onto the other. W...

Multimodal databases of everyday emotion: facing up to complexity

In everyday life, speech is part of a multichannel system involved in conveying emotion. Understanding how it operates in that context requires suitable data, consisting of multimodal records of emotion drawn from everyday life. This paper reflects the experience of two teams active in collecting and labelling data of this type. It sets out the core reasons for pursuing a multimodal approach, r...

Culture shock

Many different human cell lines, including both normal and cancer cells, appear to converge to a state that contains an unusual number of chromosomes when they are grown in culture.

Detecting sugar : an everyday problem when facing diabetes

Fred Engelbrecht and Thomas Wendt from the ExploHeidelberg Teaching Lab describe some experiments on sugar detection to demonstrate the problems that people with diabetes face every day.

Culture and International Relations : The Culture of International Relations