Sharks#

Studies the effect of different kinds of background music on people watching shark documentaries.

From the authors: “Despite the ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive, yet exaggerated fear, which is validated and reinforced by disproportionate and sensationalistic news coverage of shark ‘attacks’ and by highlighting shark-on-human violence in popular movies and documentaries. In this study, we investigate another subtler, yet powerful factor that contributes to this fear: the ominous background music that often accompanies shark footage in documentaries.” The music in this experiment comes from https://open.spotify.com/album/7AQ9M23tA6AlBSsl7DocBJ. Ominous music is Track 9 1:45-2:45, while uplifting music is Track 1, 1:41-2:41.

Initialization#

library(fosdata)
data <- fosdata::sharks

Accessing fields#

data <- fosdata::sharks
political_views <- data$political_views # Just a random field in the dataset

Interactive R Sample#

You can use the R editor below to interactively explore the dataset and generate plots. This contains a fully self-contained R environment with fosdata, ggplot2, and dplyr loaded.

webR + fosdata Test

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LLM instructions#

If using an LLM, you can copy-paste the following instructions to accompany your prompt to inform the model of the fields and their types in the dataset.

LLM Instructions

The fosdata::sharks dataset containing the following fields:

fields[15]{name,type,values}:
  av,factor,[audio,video]
  music,factor,[ominous,uplifting,silence]
  scary,numeric,n/a
  dangerous,numeric,n/a
  vicious,numeric,n/a
  peaceful,numeric,n/a
  beautiful,numeric,n/a
  graceful,numeric,n/a
  free_response,character,n/a
  conserve,numeric,n/a
  gender,numeric,n/a
  age,numeric,n/a
  race_ethnicity,numeric,n/a
  annual_income,numeric,n/a
  political_views,numeric,n/a

Fields#

Name	Description	Type	Min	Max	Values
`av`	did the subject see video or listen to audio	factor	-	-	`audio`, `video`
`music`	was the music played to subject uplifting, ominous or silence	factor	-	-	`ominous`, `uplifting`, `silence`
`scary`	how well does scary describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`dangerous`	how well does dangerous describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`vicious`	how well does vicious describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`peaceful`	how well does peaceful describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`beautiful`	how well does beautiful describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`graceful`	how well does graceful describe sharks 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`free_response`	an adjective (or more) that describes sharks	character	-	-	-
`conserve`	willingness to conserve from 1-7	numeric	1	7	-
`gender`	1 male, 2 female	numeric	1	2	-
`age`	age in years	numeric	18	65	-
`race_ethnicity`	1 white_or_caucasian, 2 black_or_african_american, 3 hispanic_or_latino, 4 asian, 5 american_indian_or_alaskan_native, 6 native_hawaiian_or_pacific_islander, 7 other	numeric	1	7	-
`annual_income`	1-9 by increments of 25K, so 1 = 0-25K, 2 = 25-50K, …, 9 = 200K+	numeric	1	9	-
`political_views`	levels 1-7 with 1 extremely liberal, 4 moderate and 7 extremely conservative	numeric	1	7	-

Source#

Nosal AP, Keenan EA, Hastings PA, Gneezy A (2016) The Effect of Background Music in Shark Documentaries on Viewers’ Perceptions of Sharks. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159279