In the present pair of studies interpersonal cues were set up, prompting selfdescriptions that would be in potential conflict with subjects' self-definitional needs. It was hypothesized that self-definitional needs would hinder subjects' responding to the interpersonal aspects of the situation. In both studies subjects committed to a certain self-definition (e.g., female professional, journalis...

Improving machine translation (MT) systems with memories (TMs) is of great interest to practitioners in the MT community. However, previous approaches require either a significant update model architecture and/or additional training efforts make models well-behaved when TMs are taken as input. In this paper, we present simple but effective method introduce into neural (NMT) systems. Specificall...

Two studies investigated teacher activities that may lead to the development of competence, if not expertise. In Study I, 136 teachers indicated in a questionnaire that evaluation and planning activities (informal and formal) best parallel deliberate practice activities that Ericsson and colleagues report as accounting for expertise in other domains. In Study II, log data and interviews from ei...

We assume that learners generate self-reference to a topic dealt with in class through motivational prompts of pedagogical agent (PA). This assumption is based on self-determination theory and organismic integration theory. Consequently, are more motivated achieve better learning results. examined the influence success motivation digital environment. Therefore, we implemented PA within web-base...

Social skill deficits are a pervasive and enduring feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As such, social skills training (SST) should be a critical component of programming for youth with ASD. A number of SST strategies exist, including those employing social stories, video modeling interventions, social problem solving, pivotal response training, scripting procedures, computer-based inte...