The psychophysiological impact of audio described porn 1

Research on audio description (AD) has undergone an enormous development in the last de-cade. Unfortunately, little attention has been devoted to the social, psychological and emotional factors influencing AD, one exception being the recent line of research which empirically explores the emotional reception of AD (Ramos & Rojo, 2014; Ramos, 2015, 2016) and the influence of psychological factors in its production phase (Ramos & Rojo, 2020). Results from these studies satisfactorily prove that audio described films are capable of evoking a similar emotional response to that elicited by their audiovisual counterparts, especially for scenes inducing disgust and fear, and that reception and production depend largely on film typology. The purpose of this new study is to analyse whether the audio described version of porn scenes can also offer its audience a similar experience to that provided by the original audiovisual scenes. Forty-seven sighted and visually impaired women (mean age = 25.12) took part in the experiment. The sample was divided into two groups: 25 sighted women watched the original audiovisual version of the clips, whereas 22 visually impaired women listened to the audio described version. Participants’ emotional response was analysed by a combination of an indicator of autonomic activation (heart rate, HR,) and self-report measures. Our results indicate that audio described porn films are capable of eliciting a similar response in both blind and sighted audiences to the one evoked by original audiovisual scenes. Abstract a study to analyse the emotional reception of two AST strategies: dubbing effect and voice-over effect. The audience’s emotional response was measured by a combination of psychophysiological measurements (electrodermal activity and HR) and self-report instruments. His results from self-report data show that AST with dubbing effect are more emotionally activating than with voice-over effect, but only for the emotion of fear. Self-report questionnaires also showed that emotional activation was similar in blind, partially sighted and sighted audiences when exposed to the same stimuli. However, psychophysiological measures did not confirm these results. Two studies conducted by Ramos (2015, 2016) are, to our knowledge, the only studies that employ self-report and heart rate measures to compare the responses of visually-impaired and sighted participants to AD scenes eliciting basic emotions. These studies compare the emotional power of audiovisual texts with and without AD for the emotions of fear, sadness and disgust, and assess the efficacy of different AD styles: a more descriptive and neutral AD versus a more subjective and narrative AD. Results suggest that AD is capable of eliciting an emotional reaction as strong as the one evoked by the original scenes, especially for the emotions of fear and sadness. Data from these studies also reveal that although different types of scenes might require different strategies, subjectivity is widely accepted both by sighted and visually impaired audiences. results evoked different modalities blind sighted audiences (audiovisual vs. audio Research