Warren J Cheung, Farhan Bhanji, Wade Gofton, Andrew K Hall, Jolanta Karpinski, Denyse Richardson, Jason R Frank, Nancy Dudek
Design and Implementation of a National Program of Assessment Model - Integrating Entrustable Professional Activity Assessments in Canadian Specialist Postgraduate Medical Education
Perspectives on medical education
humans communicate emotions others via volatile emissions bodies although solid evidence human chemical communication fear stress anxiety investigations positive emotions remain scarce recent study found womens heart rate performance creativity tasks modulated body odors men sampled positive vs neutral mood however inducing positive emotions laboratory settings remains challenging therefore important step investigate human chemical communication positive emotions develop new methods induce positive moods present new mood induction procedure mip based virtual reality vr assumed powerful videos used previous study induce positive emotions hypothesized consequently given intense emotions created vrbased mip would induce larger differences receivers responses positive body odor versus neutral control body odor videobased mip results confirmed higher efficacy vr induce positive emotions compared videos specifically vr repeatable effects individuals although positive body odors similar effects found previous video study especially faster problem solving effects reach statistical significance outcomes discussed function specificities vr methodological parameters may prevented observation subtle effects understood indepth future studies human chemical communication