We always interact with our environment in our life. When we use artifacts, we interact with the environment through them, or rather, we interact with the artifacts as our environment. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model of interactions by focusing on the role or the function of interfaces. Our modeling consists of three steps. Firstly, we propose a new view about the role of an inte...

The present study was designed as an analogue to the acquisition and extinction of a classically conditioned phobic response. Thirty electrodennally labile and 30 electrodennally stabile nonphobic male undergraduates were assigned randomly to one of two experimental conditions, utilizing either "prepared" or "unprepared" eSs, after Seligman (1971). It was hypothesized that electrodennally labil...

The relation between syntax and semantics of natural language can be regarded as a constraint. With the ideas from Channel Theory (Barwise 1993, Barwise and Seligman 1994), the way that an utterance represents a situation can be captured as a linguistic channel. To study the operational aspects of such a channel, we construct it as a system of communicating processes by turning to the -calculus...

Please cite this article in press as: Toner, E., et al tory of Strengths for Children. Personality and In The structure of character strengths among adolescents and their relation with wellbeing have received little systematic attention. This study examined the dimensions underlying the Values in Action (VIA) Character Strengths defined by Peterson and Seligman (2004) and assessed their associa...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attribution styles have in social anxiety of high school students. 430 Iranian students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from high schools of Isfahan city. Participants completed measures of childhood attachment to each parent (Hazen and Shaver, 1986), the family adaptabilit...

En 1935, le dernier volume de l’Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (ESS) est publié, mettant un terme à une aventure éditoriale ayant débuté près dix ans plus tôt. Cette publication scientifique, dirigée par deux économistes américains, Edwin Seligman et Alvin Johnson, entend s’imposer comme l’ouvrage référence en sciences sociales l’échelle internationale. Mais au-delà d’offrir des définitio...

Seligman recently introduced the PERMA model with five core elements of psychological well-being: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. We empirically tested this multidimensional theory with 516 Australian male students (age 13-18). From an extensive well-being assessment, we selected a subset of items theoretically relevant to PERMA. Factor analyses recove...

This paper describes information flow within logical environments. The theory of information flow, the logic of distributed systems, was first defined by Barwise and Seligman [1]. Logical environments are a semantic-oriented version of institutions. The theory of institutions, which was initiated by Goguen and Burstall [5], is abstract model theory. Information flow is the flow of information i...

The main challenge for educational institutions in the middle of pandemic is fostering students to maintain character strengths poor conditions. Various difficulties come quickly, such as changes online learning system, strict health protocols that apply threat viruses are scary all time. Character have a broad impact on life satisfaction, subjective well-being, friendly relationships, and acad...

the purpose of this study was to explore the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attribution styles have in social anxiety of high school students. 430 iranian students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from high schools of isfahan city. participants completed measures of childhood attachment to each parent (hazen and shaver, 1986), the family adaptabilit...