Social and Emotional Effect on Human Behavior

Abstract

Human behavior is influenced by the social context and depends on emotional state. This study focuses on the effect of the presence of others and group in interaction with the emotional impact on motor, cognitive and affective performance. Seventy-four subjects participated in the study. Each participant performed a dart shooting action in three conditions: the individual, presence of others, and group presence. Motion kinematics were detected using Adope Premier software and affective states were recorded using a Deep-learning facial expression recognition model. Performance analysis revealed that subjects performed the task with a shorter reaction time and movement duration during the others' presence condition as well as the group presence condition compared to the single case. The results thus demonstrate the effect of emotions on movement kinematics and emotional correspondence and stability. This improvement can be attributed to the social facilitation related to the audience effect and motivational factor.

Keywords: affective performance; cognitive performance; emotional state; motor performance; social influence.