Research Project Meeting: 16 January 2010

How do we pull one reaction from different communities?

Create a universal language/effect which can impact everyone the same way?

Different audience reactions to the same stimulus?

Acknowledged: there is no universal effect, no universal reaction.

2 Girls 1 Cup: Same Idea of varying reactions to same stimulus.

People's reaction to the naked human form?
Willing vs unwilling audiences--changes intensity of reaction, direction of reaction

Aesop's Fables: ubiquitous? Actual universal themes? (Tyrants will always justify their tyranny, honesty triumphs over corruption..)

Before Study/After study: If we study reactions, can we find universals (within the communities studied?)

Sudden and reflexive reactions--valid or useful for study? Not really.

Most Dangerous: US tv programme real events when people die or get badly injured.

Effect that encourages Engagement, rather than Escape--encourage participation rather than revulsion or a simple reflexive flight reaction.

-Important to study what we see on faces in conjunction with what they say they feel.