This paper is about using prosody to automatically detect one aspect of a speaker’s internal state: their level of certainty. While past work on classifying level of certainty used the perceived level of certainty as the value to predict, we find that this quantity often differs from a speaker’s actual level of certainty as gauged by self-reports. In this work we build models to predict a speak...

Little research has examined the properties of people's attitudes that predict how they will respond to conflict with others whose opinions differ. We propose that one aspect of attitude certainty-attitude correctness, or the perception that one's attitude is the "right" attitude to have-will predict more competitive conflict styles. This hypothesis was tested across five data sets comprising f...

Purpose: Satisfaction is the result of a process; to assess satisfaction, the care recipients’ experiences of the services received should be understood and efforts should be made to understand how these experiences have formed that satisfaction.The purpose was to understand the processes of satisfaction with nursing care in parents of hospitalized children.Methods: The present grounded theory ...

Despite the ubiquity of conflict, it is not inevitable. In any given dispute, other outcomes are possible. Why then does conflict grip us repeatedly despite the horrors that war veterans, movies, television, and history books promise? Undoubtedly, many factors specific to the time and place of a conflict are ultimately responsible for its occurrence. Here we explore one factor that may contribu...