WELCOME TO RESEARCH DAY, Salem State’s annual showcase and celebration of research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. Join us at any point in the day for engaging presentations, panel discussions, performances, and more.
The day begins with the Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 am to 12 pm, followed by the BIAC Plenary at 12:15 pm, and the Faculty and Graduate Research Symposium from 1:30 to 6 pm, with many events taking place throughout the day.
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Emotive Encounters: Exploring Emotion in Jury Deliberations and Portraiture 1:30 - 2:30 pm | faculty and graduate panel session I Bertolon Central Classroom Building room 111
Samantha O'Connor faculty advisors: Sophie Evett, Anne-Marie Hakstian The Use of Emotion and Laughter in Mock Jury Deliberations
Previous research has shown that, despite pressure to keep them at bay, jurors often experience emotion while deliberating. Emotions may help jurors communicate their thoughts and feelings with one another. This presentation examines how jurors use their emotions and laughter to interact with one another while deliberating a mock civil discrimination trial about the plaintiff’s claim that she was discriminated against when a department store security officer stopped her and searched her belongings in full view of other customers. Specifically, this project explores how anger, contempt, sympathy and empathy, laughter, and humor are all used as communication devices in deliberation.
Gretchen Sinnett Painting Emotion
This presentation looks at two turn-of-the-century portraits of mothers and adolescent daughters – Cecilia Beaux’s “Mother and Daughter” (1898) and John Singer Sargent’s “Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel” (1903) – through the lens of the history of emotions, a subfield that has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. I am interested in what portraits can and cannot tell us about the emotional tenor of past relationships and how portraiture may have contributed to discourses about family bonds during a period of social transition. The text will hopefully conclude a longer essay.
