Learning with human and virtual instructors who display happy or bored emotions in video lectures

• Published in: Computers in human behavior Vol. 119; p. 106724
• Main Authors: Horovitz, Tal, Mayer, Richard E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elmsford Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Affect; Animated pedagogical agents; Between-subjects design; CAI; Computer assisted instruction; Emotion; Emotional factors; Emotions; Equivalence principle; Hypotheses; Instructional video; Multimedia learning; Students; Teachers; Instructional video; Emotion; Animated pedagogical agents; Affect; Multimedia learning

In this study, we investigate whether the affective state (happy or bored) of a human or virtual instructor in an instructional video on statistics yields different learning processes and outcomes. The positivity principle states that the emotional state of the instructor is recognized by students (...