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Overview

Gary Bente is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology and computer science, with significant contributions in social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and human-computer interaction. Other subfields of study include sociology and political science, as well as literature and literary theory.

The main topics of Gary Bente's work include:

  • Media Influence and Health
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Digital Communication and Language

The scientist has published in several frequent venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Gary Bente has coauthored multiple papers with several researchers, notably:

  • Ralf Schmälzle
  • Sue Lim
  • Nolan T. Jahn
  • Juncheng Wu
  • Hee Jung Cho

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Review and Challenges of Technologies for Real-Time Human Behavior Monitoring," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • "Examining the exposure-reception-retention link in realistic communication environments via VR and eye-tracking: The VR billboard paradigm," 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations," 2022, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • "Building blocks of suspense: subjective and physiological effects of narrative content and film music," 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "Nature-Based Virtual Reality Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot for Caregiver Respite," 2023, Current Oncology

The publications demonstrate an engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of human behavior, virtual reality, media influence, and communication technologies. The diversity of publication venues corresponds with the interdisciplinary scope of Gary Bente's research interests.

Best Publications

  • Toward a second-person neuroscience.

    Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

  • Why so serious? On the relation of serious games and learning

    Johannes S. Breuer;Gary Bente

  • Avatar-Mediated Networking: Increasing Social Presence and Interpersonal Trust in Net-Based Collaborations

    Gary Bente;Sabine Rüggenberg;Nicole C. Krämer;Felix Eschenburg

  • Minds made for sharing: Initiating joint attention recruits reward-related neurocircuitry

    Leonhard Schilbach;Marcus Wilms;Simon B. Eickhoff;Sandro Romanzetti

  • Media Entertainment and Well-Being—Linking Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment Experience to Media-Induced Recovery and Vitality

    Diana Rieger;Leonard Reinecke;Lena Frischlich;Gary Bente

  • To buy or not to buy: Influence of seller photos and reputation on buyer trust and purchase behavior

    Gary Bente;Odile Baptist;Haug Leuschner

  • It’s in your eyes—using gaze-contingent stimuli to create truly interactive paradigms for social cognitive and affective neuroscience

    Marcus Wilms;Leonhard Schilbach;Ulrich Pfeiffer;Gary Bente

  • Lehrbuch der Medienpsychologie

    Roland Mangold;Peter Vorderer;Gary Bente

  • Why we interact: On the functional role of the striatum in the subjective experience of social interaction

    Ulrich J. Pfeiffer;Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Bojana Kuzmanovic

  • Personalizing e-Learning. The Social Effects of Pedagogical Agents

    Nicole C. Krämer;Gary Bente

  • Avatar realism and social interaction quality in virtual reality

    Daniel Roth;Jean-Luc Lugrin;Dmitri Galakhov;Arvid Hofmann

  • Computer Animated Movement and Person Perception: Methodological Advances in Nonverbal Behavior Research

    Gary Bente;Nicole C. Krämer;Anita Petersen;Jan Peter de Ruiter

  • Duration matters: Dissociating neural correlates of detection and evaluation of social gaze

    Bojana Kuzmanovic;Alexandra Georgescu;Simon Eickhoff;Simon Eickhoff;Nadim Joni Shah

  • The Use of Virtual Characters to Assess and Train Non-Verbal Communication in High-Functioning Autism

    Alexandra Livia Georgescu;Bojana Kuzmanovic;Daniel Roth;Gary Bente

  • The winner takes it all

    Diana Rieger;Tim Wulf;Julia Kneer;Lena Frischlich

  • Propaganda 2.0 ; psychological effects of right-wing and Islamic extremist internet videos

    Diana Rieger;Lena Frischlich;Gary Bente

  • A Non-Verbal Turing Test: Differentiating Mind from Machine in Gaze-Based Social Interaction

    Ulrich J. Pfeiffer;Bert Timmermans;Gary Bente;Kai Vogeley

  • The others: Universals and cultural specificities in the perception of status and dominance from nonverbal behavior☆

    Gary Bente;Haug Leuschner;Ahmad Al Issa;James J. Blascovich

  • Eyes on the Mind: Investigating the Influence of Gaze Dynamics on the Perception of Others in Real-Time Social Interaction

    Ulrich J. Pfeiffer;Leonhard Schilbach;Mathis Jording;Bert Timmermans

  • Dominance & Attention: Images of Leaders in German, French, & American TV News

    Roger D. Masters;Siegfried Frey;Gary Bente

  • Detecting concealed information from groups using a dynamic questioning approach: simultaneous skin conductance measurement and immediate feedback.

    Ewout H. Meijer;Ewout H. Meijer;Gary Bente;Gershon Ben-Shakhar;Andreas Schumacher

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Vogeley
Kai Vogeley University of Cologne
Nicole C. Krämer
Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen
Leonhard Schilbach
Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Vasudevi Reddy
Vasudevi Reddy University of Portsmouth
Alan Costall
Alan Costall University of Portsmouth
Ron Tamborini
Ron Tamborini Michigan State University
Niklas Ravaja
Niklas Ravaja University of Helsinki
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara

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