Background: Referees assume an important role on sports activity because their decisions are highly scrutinized and can influence the results achieved by athletes teams. However, referees much less studied than regarding way they deal with respond to stress factors. This study analysed how soccer adapted a stressful situation using critical incident methodology of collecting data 24 48 hours be...

We present a preliminary definition and a theory of emotion viewed as a sequential process comprising the appraisal of the agent global state, the generation of an emotion-signal and an emotion-response. This theory distinguishes cognitive from affective appraisal on an architecture-grounded basis. A scheme for emotion classification with five dimensions is presented. Among them, we emphasize t...

Several approaches have already been employed to “sense” affective information from text, but none of those ever considered the cognitive and appraisal structure of individual emotions. Hence this paper aims at interpreting the cognitive theory of emotions known as the OCC emotion model, from a linguistic standpoint. The paper provides rules for the OCC emotion types for the task of sensing aff...

Prominent neuroscience models suggest that addictive behavior occurs when environmental stressors and drug-relevant cues activate a cycle of cognitive, affective, and psychophysiological mechanisms, including dysregulated interactions between bottom-up and top-down neural processes, that compel the user to seek out and use drugs. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) target pathogenic mechanis...

VR applications in psychotherapy are gaining prominence in the research community and acceptance among practitioners, with particular successes in the area of phobia treatments. However, a promising technology remains unexplored: computational models of cognition and emotion. Cognitive models (also termed cognitiveor agent-architectures) aim to emulate cognitive processing such as attention, pe...

OBJECTIVE The stress-induced release of cortisol has been linked to detrimental health outcomes. Therefore, strategies to attenuate cortisol stress responses are of interest for prevention and treatment of stress-related symptoms and problems. Previous studies have found protective effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management training--which focuses on the modification of stress-inducing c...

The study is aimed at investigating the use of Performance appraisal (PA) in some manufacturing enterprises and private banks in Bangladesh. Some hypotheses were developed on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on the data set on individual employees, these hypotheses were tested in order to explore the impact of PA on pay and career prospects. The result indicates that PA ...