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November 11, 2025Active Learning in Higher Education

Beyond Words: A Mediation Analysis of How Instructors’ Nonverbal Emotional Expressions Facilitate Students’ Video Learning

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FZFangfang ZhuMWMengyuan WangYLYifen Liu

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Overview

Analysis reveals that instructors' emotional expressions impact learning outcomes in students, highlighting the role of attention and cognitive load.

Key Points

  • This study aims to investigate how instructors' nonverbal emotional expressions affect students' video learning outcomes.
  • 148 college students viewed educational videos while their eye movements were tracked.
  • Comparative analysis of neutral versus various positive nonverbal cues used by instructors.
  • Assessment of self-reported emotions, attention, cognitive load, learning experience, self-efficacy, and learning outcome.
  • Students viewing videos with happy facial expressions and cheerful tone reported the best learning outcomes.
  • Significant differences observed in attention and cognitive load affecting learning experience and self-efficacy.
  • Cognitive load and attention partially mediated immediate learning outcomes.

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Zhu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69252e96c0ce034ddc356376https://doi.org/10.1177/14697874251387302
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