The appraisal of scientific status evolution is a great attempt by Karl Popper to combine Darwinian theory with its falsification system. Compared other natural science theories, occupies special and important position in his philosophy Popper's the has experienced long process from "singular historical statement" "metaphysical research programme" "scientific theory", shifting denial approval. ...

In the research on the role of coherence marking in discourse, several factors have been ignored so far. In this paper, we will adopt a new approach, where we will not only investigate effects on comprehension, but also on appraisal and feeling of knowing. Moreover, the current theory will be extended by testing whether we can generalize results over different groups of subjects (with and witho...

OBJECTIVE This review is aimed at assessing the quality of questionnaires and their development process based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) change model. METHODS A systematic literature search for studies with the primary aim of TPB-based questionnaire development was conducted in relevant databases between 2002 and 2012 using selected search terms. Ten of 1,034 screened abstracts m...

Coping self-efficacy (CSE) beliefs refer to an individual's beliefs about one's ability to cope with external stressors. Efficacy beliefs can determine whether people will invest effort, and how long they will persist in their effort in the face of obstacles and aversive experiences. People with higher levels of CSE beliefs tend to approach challenging situations in an active and persistent way...

Companies that seek to gain competitive advantage through employees must be able to manage the behaviour and results of all employees. One of the most important parts of performance management, if not the most important one, is performance appraisal. Attribute-based performance methods are the most popular ones used in performance appraisal because of their ease of use. However, these methods u...

The Appraisal framework is a theory of the language of evaluation, developed within the tradition of systemic functional linguistics. The framework describes a taxonomy of the types of language used to convey evaluation and position oneself with respect to the evaluations of other people. Accurate automatic recognition of these types of language can inform an analysis of document sentiment. Thi...

Psychological theories of emotion have often defined an as simultaneous changes in several mental and bodily components. In addition, appraisal assume that component elicits the other components (e.g., motivational, behavioural, experiential). Neither componential definition nor theory been systematically translated to paradigms for induction, many which rely on passive induction without a clea...

Cognitive agent programming frameworks facilitate the development of intelligent virtual agents. By adding a computational model of emotion to such a framework, one can program agents capable of using and reasoning over emotions. Computational models of emotion are generally based on cognitive appraisal theory; however, these theories introduce a large set of appraisal processes, which are not ...