Perception and evaluation of facial expressions are known to be heavily modulated by emotional features of contextual information. Such contextual effects, however, might also be driven by non-emotional aspects of contextual information, an interaction of emotional and non-emotional factors, and by the observers' inherent traits. Therefore, we sought to assess whether contextual information abo...

The aim of this study was to investigate the multiple relationships between anxiety sensitivity, social support, and perception of pain with the  life expectancy. Research was of correlational type. Population was consisted of all older adult in Isfahan (males and females) in the spring of 2016. 250 individuals were selected by convenience sampling method from different places. In order to meas...

BACKGROUND Prosody, the melody and intonation of speech, involves the rhythm, rate, pitch and voice quality to relay linguistic and emotional information from one individual to another. A significant component of human social communication depends upon interpreting and responding to another person's prosodic tone as well as one's own ability to produce prosodic speech. However there has been li...

historical sociology, as a comparative study of social groups, leads to the understanding of the structure of a society, its background and its composition in the past and these serve as the setting for the historical events. it also provides an insight which bridges the gap in the evidence and claims of the historians and contributes to the improvement and promotion of historians' mode of...

In sub-Saharan Africa an almost universal awareness of the serious consequences of AIDS and of the sexual transmission of HIV co-exists together with a reluctance in adopting consequent preventive measures, in the form of protected sexual intercourse. The socio-psychological literature on health-related behaviour emphasises the perception of being at risk of HIV infection as being one of the ne...