{"id":21962,"date":"2020-02-20T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/?p=21962"},"modified":"2020-02-21T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:11:37","slug":"oriana-aragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/oriana-aragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriana Arag\u00f3n: Tears of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='no scaling'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='21963'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment='scroll'  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-no scaling av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.6666666667%;' ><li style='background-position:top center;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Oriana-Aragon.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class='av-section-color-overlay' style='opacity: 0.1; 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font-size: 19px; font-weight: bolder; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: -50px;\">ORIANA ARAG\u00d3N<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 72px; font-weight: bolder; text-align: center; line-height: 1.1em;\">Tears of Joy<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  style='height:1px; margin-top:-50px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:1100px;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='height:1px; margin-top:-50px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:25px; color:#999999; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Arag\u00f3n\u2019s research delves into dimorphous expression<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  style='height:1px; margin-top:-50px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_full  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-12  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:1100px;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:19px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Or<span class=\"s1\">iana Arag\u00f3n researches <\/span><span class=\"s2\">human emotions and how people perceive, engage and react emotionally to the things they encounter, including dimorphous expressions, which, according to Arag\u00f3n, <\/span>are \u201cstrangely negative responses to positive events, like crying tears of joy or seeing a puppy so adorable you want to squeeze it or a baby so cute you want to smoosh its face. These reactions have been experienced by all of us and have always been there. My research simply identified and described it and put it out there, so more people are relating to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">To study this phenomenon, the assistant professor of marketing has conducted surveys, qualitative cross-cultural linguistics analyses, behavioral laboratory experiments and neuroscience methodology by observing participants\u2019 neural responses to cute babies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Since Arag\u00f3n\u2019s dimorphous expressions research first appeared in 2013, she has received countless national and international media inquiries, including the likes of <i>Good Morning America<\/i>, <i>Newsweek<\/i>, <i>The New York Times<\/i>, <i>Washington Post<\/i>, <i>NPR<\/i> and <i>Discovery TV<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cTo this day, I have about three to four media interactions a month,\u201d she says. \u201cI sense the media\u2019s thirst for this phenomenon is [because] people can relate to it. Whether you\u2019re in ivory towers or on main street, it\u2019s human behavior, and the press recognizes this behavior as something many people, including themselves, have experienced.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Arag\u00f3n does as many interviews as she can, in part to clarify her research for the public: \u201cI think it\u2019s important that academicians do all they can to help disseminate an accurate interpretation of their work. And I think it\u2019s important for the people who help fund our work to be made aware of some of the interesting research that\u2019s being done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Arag\u00f3n\u2019s desire to study emotions started well before she attended graduate school at Yale. It was as an undergraduate at UC-San Diego, where she worked with children with autism under Professor Jaime Pineda in cognitive science and neuroscience. Seeing the children\u2019s difficulty in reading expressions inspired her to delve deeper into how people understand each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In 2012, she decided to take her research even further when, thanks to late-night television, she gained some unexpected insight on emotionally negative responses to positive events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI was watching Conan O\u2019Brien, and he had actress Leslie Bibb as a guest,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen talking about a cute puppy, she was gritting her teeth, and then, she referred to a friend\u2019s baby that was so adorable she wanted to punch it. The next day, I told my father about the exchange, and he said it was no different than my grandmother and grandfather pinching a baby\u2019s cheeks. It made me realize these types of emotional reactions are everywhere, and I wanted to expose them even more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Arag\u00f3n believes knowing more about dimorphous expressions, beyond their significance to marketing and consumer behavior, can have societal benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cA lot of our conflict today has to do with diverse schools of thought,\u201d she says. \u201cI truly believe that by better understanding each other\u2019s positions, especially in polarizing times, we will be able to empathize and sympathize with one another, which hopefully will create a more civil environment for us to interact in.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  style='height:100px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_comments_list '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment   '><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oriana Arag\u00f3n\u2019s research delves into dimorphous expression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[229,235,236,234,82],"coauthors":[18],"class_list":["post-21962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-profiles","tag-2020-faculty-profiles","tag-autism","tag-consumer-behavior","tag-dimorphous-expressions","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Oriana-Aragon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IEky-5Ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}