Dualists view the mind and the body as two fundamental different “things”, equally real and independent of each other. Cartesian thought, or substance dualism, maintains that the mind and body are two different substances, the non-physical and the physical, and a causal relationship is assumed to exist between them. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the idea that everything that exists is eith...

[Context and motivation] During requirements engineering the stakeholder view is typically captured by scenarioand goal models focusing on tasks and goals to be achieved with the software. We believe that it is worthwhile to study more general personal values and attitudes of stakeholders and to relate them to software requirements. [Question/problem] The main questions of such an approach are:...

Patients’ access to their medical records in the form of Personal Health Records (PHRs) is a central part of the ongoing shift in health policy, where patient empowerment is in focus. A survey was conducted to gauge the stakeholder requirements of patients in regards to functionality requests in PHRs. Models from goal-oriented requirements engineering were created to express the values and pref...

If a psychologist is asked how a "perception" can be observed, he will usually reply that we really observe a verbal report or some other overt response taking place in the presence of certain stimulus patterns. Such an acknowledgment is what often passes for an "operational definition" of perception. Actually such apparent scientific sophistication has not always been significant within the ps...

This paper proposes a user modeling method from user’s browsing history of reviews. Personal values-based recommendation method has been proposed, which models users’ personal values as the effect of item’s attribute on their decision making. While existing method obtains a user model from reviews posted by a user, this paper proposes to obtain it from reviews a user consulted for decision maki...

Stress is implicated in the development and progression of a broad array of mental and physical health disorders. Theory and research on the self suggest that self-affirming activities may buffer these adverse effects. This study experimentally investigated whether affirmations of personal values attenuate physiological and psychological stress responses. Eighty-five participants completed eith...

Texts posted on the web by users from diverse cultures provide a nearly endless source of data that researchers can use to study human thoughts and language patterns. However, unless care is taken to avoid it, models may be developed in one cultural setting and deployed in another, leading to unforeseen consequences. We explore the effects of using models built from a corpus of texts from multi...

Self-objectification occurs when individuals treat themselves as objects to be viewed and evaluated based upon appearance. Literature has largely elucidated links between self-objectification and damaging outcomes in both men and women. The purpose of the present study was to extend past research on the antecedents of self-objectification. We were interested in the role played by specific ideol...

Our purpose is to use Twitter data to infer personal values in marketing for Japanese consumers. In this paper, we reintroduce our personal value system and apply the model for inferring personal values with tweets. To adapt the model to the rapid change of wording in tweets, we propose a dynamic model based on time-weighted frequency in this research. We evaluated the prediction results from o...