1. Introduction In a scene in " The Importance of Being Earnest " Oscar Wilde pinpoints an array of properties of religious ritual systems that cognitive theorizing about religious rituals, viz., the theory of religious ritual competence, has subsequently systematized (Lawson and McCauley 1990; McCauley and Lawson 2002). To the amusement of hundreds of audiences, Wilde's play also identifies a ...

place is not only a shelter for human activities but also a phenomena that he interacts with it. furthermore, through this interaction, human gives meaning to the place, attaches to it and sometimes even identifies himself by it. in addition, human’s need to the emotional interaction with the place in which he lives, “place attachment”; is one of the most important principles that architects, u...

This paper presents an approach to the automated mark-up of texts with emotional labels. The approach considers two possible representations of emotions in parallel: emotional categories (emotional tags used to refer to emotions) and emotional dimensions (measures that try to model the essential aspects of emotions numerically). For each representation, a corpus of example texts previously anno...

Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have begun turning their attention to the study of ritual, uncovering the causal mechanisms driving this universal aspect of human behavior. With growing interest in the psychology of ritual, the current paper provides a...

Historical fabrics are known as a national heritage and treasure which are full of spiritual and human concepts. However, we are witnessing that many of these historic districts are being forgotten, abandoned and destructed as the emotional relationship between human and its residing place is fading out. Sense of place is a concept which focuses on the emotional and internal relation between pe...

A number of psychologists have conceptualized the communication of affect as three-dimensional (e.g. Davitz, 1964). The three dimensions proposed are arousal, pleasure and power. This paper reports the findings of a perception study where 31 normally-hearing subjects rated utterances said in the emotion of happiness, sadness, two forms of anger (hot and cold) and a neutral state on the dimensio...

In today's healthcare environment, characterized by downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, organizational cultures and employees are experiencing rapid--and often tense--changes. Ritual can facilitate change by acknowledging it and allowing the grieving process to take its course. The success of an organizational culture change can depend on whether the organization and its membe...