The number of young people not in employment, education or training is increasing across Europe. These youngsters often lack self-confidence and the essential social skills needed to seek and secure employment. The TARDIS project aims to build a scenario-based serious-game simulation platform for young people at risk of exclusion to improve their social skills. This paper intends to propose a m...

During a live concert, the mind can wander to unrelated thoughts such as personal concerns or past memories vivid images that are inspired by music. This is an omnipresent phenomenon commonly referred mind-wandering. Psychological research on mind-wandering has explored its main characteristics, frequency, phenomenology, and impact mood, both in laboratory daily life contexts. study aimed harne...

Emotions, moods, and conscious awareness; comment on johnson-laird and oatley's “the language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field” Andrew Ortony & Gerald L. Clore To cite this article: Andrew Ortony & Gerald L. Clore (1989) Emotions, moods, and conscious awareness; comment on johnson-laird and oatley's “the language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field”, Cognition and Emotion, ...

The rise of the diaristic mode in contemporary art might seem like return dead author a particularly self-absorbed frame mind. Yet diary is form writing that relinquishes authorial control to passing moods and contingencies day. diarist writes hastily, automatically, involuntarily, thereby giving access insights unavailable deliberation. An account Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary, 2009, his ref...

BACKGROUND The fields of complementary and alternative medicine and psychotherapy have many similar characteristics. This study investigates the self-healing capacity of the patient as one shared characteristic and as an important mechanism of change. CASE REPORT This investigation adopts naturalistic qualitative case study methodology to describe the treatment of a patient in his late fiftie...

Social networking sites (SNS) provide opportunities for mood management through selective exposure. This study tested the prediction that negative mood fosters self-enhancing social comparisons to SNS profiles. Participants were induced into positive or negative moods and then browsed manipulated profiles on an experimental SNS. Profiles varied in a 2 2 within-subjects design along two dimensio...

Four studies evaluated the success of behaviors and strategies used to self-regulate bad moods, raise energy, and reduce tension. Study 1 (N = 102) used an open-ended questionnaire to identify behavioral categories. Studies 2 and 4 surveyed a representative sample (N = 308) with a fixed-response questionnaire to quantify behaviors, general strategies, and individual differences. Study 3 used ps...

In this study we build a mood recognition system using EEG signal of Song Induced activity. In this we have analyzed alpha EEG powers related to left hemisphere, right hemisphere regions of brains. This has given the significance of different brain region related to emotions. This study successfully achieves the goal to design a system which offers offline mood recognition system. In this study...

Emotions and moods color cognition. In this article, we outline how emotions affect judgments and cognitive performance of human agents. We argue that affective influences are due, not to the affective reactions themselves, but to the information they carry about value, a potentially useful finding for creators of artificial agents. The kind of influence that occurs depends on the focus of the ...