During our cardiovascular section of anatomy, we created a lab that questioned whether or not emotions affect our heart rate or not. Our hypothesis concluded that different emotions do in fact have different affects on our heart rate. It states that while watching a sad video clip, your heart rate would increase. During a scary video, your heart rate would also increase because of certain things like tension but, during a funny video, your heart rate will go down because laughing seems to be a calming mechanism. The last video we included in our experiment was a boring video. We believed that this would decrease the heart rate because of relaxation. After we developed our hypothesis, it was time to develop a procedure. In our experiment, we took two girls and two boys to make our experiment more accurate. We tested their heart rate while not watching anything and then we also tested their heart rate throughout the four categories of videos. Taking the data and putting it all together, each graph was different and included changes caused by motion and other factors outside of emotion. There was no direct data that concluded emotions actually significantly changed your heart rate. Therefore, we concluded that emotions do not have an affect of your heart rate like we originally thought.
Problem:
Does your emotional state affect your heart rate?
Hypotheis:
When your emotional state changes from watching different video clips it will affect your heart rate.
-Sad Video: We believe the heart rate will go up during a sad video because your body gets
a certain tension.
-Scary Video: We believe the heart rate will go up during a scary clip because your
adrenaline is pumping and your heart will be beating faster with anticipation.
-Humor Video: We believe the heart rate will go down because laughing tends to have a
calming effect.
-Boredom Video: We believe the heart rate will go down or stay the same because the body
will be relaxing with boredom
Materials:
- Computer
- Four different videos
- Heart rate bars
- Graph/data collector
- Two girls
- Two boys
Videos to watch:
- -People running into glass doors - Humor
- -College classroom - Boredom
- -Mother and Sister dying - Sad with crying
-Scary video on youtube - Fear
Procedure:
1. Establish a base line heart rate.
2. In a private place set up the Heart rate monitor and videos with first person.
3. Play the scary clip while monitoring the persons heart rate to see changes.(each person
will watch a different scary clip that they haven't seen before to make sure the real emotion
comes out)
4. Play the humorous clip and measure the persons heart rate.
5. Play the sad clip and measure the persons heart rate.
6. Play the boredom clip and measure the persons heart rate.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 on next person. (the clips should be played in a random order so the
watcher does not know what to expect.)
Data:
A few examples of our data
Nick's Standing Heart Rate
Nick - Sad
Nick - Bored
Nick - Scared
Nick - humor
Madison - Standing
Madison - Sad
Madison - Bored
Madison - Humor
Madison - ScaredConclusion:
During our experiment, each and every one of our test subjects had different changes in heart rates. While watching no video, all of our subjects had changes in heart rate due to movement and other environmental factors, which insured that movement changed heart rate more than their emotions. During our video clip that was supposed to create a bored emotion and leave a stable or decreasing heart rate some of our subjects their heart rates dropped and went back up. In others, they began to rise slightly the entire time. During the video that was supposed to evoke a sad emotion our test subjects also had heart rates that didn't completely make sense according to our hypothesis. During one of our test subjects, the heart rate had an outrageous amount of outliers. The heart rate went up and down constantly. During others, it slowly rose. We also showed videos that we were supposed to evoke a laughing or happy/funny video. Our last video was supposed to make our test subject scared. Our test subjects were also similar and heart rates and all of the heart rates differed slightly. Therefore, we believe that emotions do not control your heart rate as much as we thought. We can conclude that heart rates do not have a factor in your emotions due to our data we gathered.
During our cardiovascular section of anatomy, we created a lab that questioned whether or not emotions affect our heart rate or not. Our hypothesis concluded that different emotions do in fact have different affects on our heart rate. It states that while watching a sad video clip, your heart rate would increase. During a scary video, your heart rate would also increase because of certain things like tension but, during a funny video, your heart rate will go down because laughing seems to be a calming mechanism. The last video we included in our experiment was a boring video. We believed that this would decrease the heart rate because of relaxation. After we developed our hypothesis, it was time to develop a procedure. In our experiment, we took two girls and two boys to make our experiment more accurate. We tested their heart rate while not watching anything and then we also tested their heart rate throughout the four categories of videos. Taking the data and putting it all together, each graph was different and included changes caused by motion and other factors outside of emotion. There was no direct data that concluded emotions actually significantly changed your heart rate. Therefore, we concluded that emotions do not have an affect of your heart rate like we originally thought.
Problem:
Does your emotional state affect your heart rate?Hypotheis:
When your emotional state changes from watching different video clips it will affect your heart rate.-Sad Video: We believe the heart rate will go up during a sad video because your body gets
a certain tension.
-Scary Video: We believe the heart rate will go up during a scary clip because your
adrenaline is pumping and your heart will be beating faster with anticipation.
-Humor Video: We believe the heart rate will go down because laughing tends to have a
calming effect.
-Boredom Video: We believe the heart rate will go down or stay the same because the body
will be relaxing with boredom
Materials:
- Computer
- Four different videos
- Heart rate bars
- Graph/data collector
- Two girls
- Two boys
Videos to watch:
- -People running into glass doors - Humor
- -College classroom - Boredom
- -Mother and Sister dying - Sad with crying
-Scary video on youtube - Fear
-Scary video on youtube - Fear
Procedure:
1. Establish a base line heart rate.2. In a private place set up the Heart rate monitor and videos with first person.
3. Play the scary clip while monitoring the persons heart rate to see changes.(each person
will watch a different scary clip that they haven't seen before to make sure the real emotion
comes out)
4. Play the humorous clip and measure the persons heart rate.
5. Play the sad clip and measure the persons heart rate.
6. Play the boredom clip and measure the persons heart rate.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 on next person. (the clips should be played in a random order so the
watcher does not know what to expect.)
Data:
A few examples of our data
Nick's Standing Heart Rate
Nick - Sad
Nick - Bored
Nick - Scared
Nick - humor
Madison - Standing
Madison - Sad
Madison - Bored
Madison - Humor
Madison - Scared
Conclusion:
During our experiment, each and every one of our test subjects had different changes in heart rates. While watching no video, all of our subjects had changes in heart rate due to movement and other environmental factors, which insured that movement changed heart rate more than their emotions. During our video clip that was supposed to create a bored emotion and leave a stable or decreasing heart rate some of our subjects their heart rates dropped and went back up. In others, they began to rise slightly the entire time. During the video that was supposed to evoke a sad emotion our test subjects also had heart rates that didn't completely make sense according to our hypothesis. During one of our test subjects, the heart rate had an outrageous amount of outliers. The heart rate went up and down constantly. During others, it slowly rose. We also showed videos that we were supposed to evoke a laughing or happy/funny video. Our last video was supposed to make our test subject scared. Our test subjects were also similar and heart rates and all of the heart rates differed slightly. Therefore, we believe that emotions do not control your heart rate as much as we thought. We can conclude that heart rates do not have a factor in your emotions due to our data we gathered.
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