Electrodermal activity during learning events shows no robust association with post-event emotional valence¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q3 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Event-level and segment-level EDA did not show robust associations with post-event emotional valence. → Hartikainen 2026 q3 i1 One exception: within students in the lecture-based group, post-event valence was weakly associated with average EDA during the middle segment (τb = 0.13, p = .005); this was not evident in the flipped group. → Hartikainen 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Hartikainen 2026¶

Hartikainen, S., Nokelainen, P., Puhakka, I., & Kangaslampi, R. (2026). Emotions in flipped and lecture-based math courses. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2026.102474

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Across multilevel logistic models adding event-level and segment-level EDA predictors (Table 3, Model 5, coefficients near zero with CIs spanning zero) for 546 learning events, the article concludes "EDA did not show robust associations with post-event emotional valence". No effect size is printed for this null.

"EDA did not show robust associations with post-event emotional valence; however, lecture-based events showed a clearer decline in EDA across event segments than flipped learning events."

Hartikainen 2026 (2)¶

Hartikainen, S., Nokelainen, P., Puhakka, I., & Kangaslampi, R. (2026). Emotions in flipped and lecture-based math courses. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2026.102474

q3 · i1 · associational · r2

Within-student Kendall's τb correlations (Table 2) in the lecture-based sample (n = 34) show a weak, significant middle-segment EDA–valence association with printed effect size "τb = 0.13, p = .005" that did not appear in the flipped sample — a scope limit across implementations.

"post-event emotional valence was weakly associated with average EDA during the middle part of learning events in the lecture-based group (Mt1.cwc; τb = 0.13, p = .005), whereas this association was not evident in the flipped learning group"

Discussion¶

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