This study analyzed the relationships between the inclination to help the others and prosocial moral reasoning (PMR) in a sample of 548 Italian adolescents and young adults. We used the Italian version of Prosocial Tendencies Measure to evaluate the tendencies to adopt prosocial behaviors in different conditions (public, anonymous, and helping behavior in emotionally critical and dire situation...

The literature has often suggested that network leadership is different from leadership in hierarchical/single-agency structures. While this difference has been assumed, relatively little research has been conducted to determine whether such a distinction between network and hierarchical leadership actually exists. This study addresses this gap in the literature using data from 417 public secto...

This paper presents a middleware architecture for personal robots applied to various environments. The architecture allows a robot to consistently integrate environment-oriented applications with its original and familiar characteristics for its user. The familiar characteristics and environment-oriented applications tend to be developed independently. However, the two kinds of functions should...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

This paper suggests a possible infrastructure that can be used to build a cognitive architecture, combining several principles that appeared through evolution. Anticipation, regulation and coordination of interactive processes are used to produce goal-oriented behaviors, illustrated by a navigation application. Implications of the model for the phylogenesis to ontogenesis transition are discuss...

The primary purpose of this research paper is to present an empirical study framed by the theory that task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership behaviors are positively related to the employees’ perceptions of organizational climate. The study examined the following research question: Are task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership behaviors related to different dimensions of organiza...

The authors examined the congruency hypothesis that health messages framed to be concordant with dispositional motivations will be most effective in promoting health behaviors. Undergraduate students (N=63) completed a measure of approach/avoidance orientation (behavioral activation/inhibition system) and read a gain- or loss-framed message promoting flossing. Results support the congruency hyp...

This paper aims to demonstrate that concepts from Distributed Artificial Intelligence are very useful to design concurrent systems. The BESA framework and the AOPOA methodology are introduced as tools to achieve this goal. The Behavior-oriented, Event-driven and Social-based Agent (BESA) framework combines the concepts of MultiAgent Systems with the design of concurrent systems: an agent can be...