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Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context (2024)
Journal Article
Leveridge, F., Mevel, P., & Tsikandilakis, M. (in press). Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context. Journal of Audiovisual Translation,

Situated at the intersection of Psychology, Film Studies, Accessibility Studies and Translation Studies, this article investigates the emotional correlates of two types of subtitles (standard and aesthetically integrated) on audiences in the context... Read More about Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2023). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

The Effects of Compassion-based Feedback on Wellbeing Ratings During a Professional Assessment Healthcare Task (2021)
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Bond, C. A. E., Tsikandilakis, M., Stacey, G., Hui, A., & Timmons, S. (2021). The Effects of Compassion-based Feedback on Wellbeing Ratings During a Professional Assessment Healthcare Task. Nurse Education Today, 99, Article 104788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104788

Background There is a need for higher education policy to consider how student nurses might be supported, to help them to develop the resilience and mental wellbeing needed to cope with stressful environments. Reviews and qualitative research in thi... Read More about The Effects of Compassion-based Feedback on Wellbeing Ratings During a Professional Assessment Healthcare Task.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Qing Leong, M., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., …Mitchell, P. (2021). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in sensitivity to immoral behaviors and cognition compared to non-religious individual. This effect could occur due to perceptual and physiological difference... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.

The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways” (2019)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Persefoni, B., Derrfuss, J., & Chapman, P. (2019). The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”. Consciousness and Cognition, 74, 1-13

In this manuscript, the authors present an overview of the history, an account of the theoretical and methodological controversy, and an illustration of contemporary and revised methods for the exploration of unconscious processing. Initially we disc... Read More about The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the appraisal of facial attractiveness and its relation to conscious awareness (2018)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., & Chapman, P. (2019). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the appraisal of facial attractiveness and its relation to conscious awareness. Perception, 48(1), 72-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618813035

Previous research suggests that facial attractiveness relies on features such as symmetry, averageness and above-average sexual dimorphic characteristics. Due to the evolutionary and sociobiological value of these characteristics, it has been suggest... Read More about Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the appraisal of facial attractiveness and its relation to conscious awareness.

Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold (2018)
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Tsikandilakis, M., & Chapman, P. (2018). Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold. Perception, 47(4), 432-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618760738

© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. The biological preparedness model suggests that survival-related visual cues elicit physiological changes without awareness to enable us to respond to our environment. Previous studies have reported some evidence for thi... Read More about Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold.

Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment (2017)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Chapman, P., & Peirce, J. (2018). Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment. Consciousness and Cognition, 58, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.10.013

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Much heated debate surrounds the extent to which we can process emotional stimuli without awareness. In particular the extent to which masked emotional faces can elicit changes in physiology measurements, such as heart rate and s... Read More about Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment.