In a web group-learning environment, students must communicate with other group members on the Internet to accomplish group projects and share knowledge. Communication is likely to affect performance and so analysing the relationship between communicative relationships and group performance may help teachers to monitor groups effectively. Certain tasks are necessary to perform such an analysis ...

Although adults in romantic relationships currently show more openness to online sexual behaviors [1], these behaviors can nevertheless increase couple conflicts and instability [2]. In the current study, we assess the mediating role of Internet pornography use and cyber infidelity in the relationship between 1) personality and attachment, and 2) couple and sexual satisfaction. A total of 779 p...

Theory and research on adult attachment style emphasize the crucial role that the sense of attachment security plays in the formation and maintenance of couple relationships. In the present article, we review studies that have examined the contribution of adult attachment style to relational cognitions, emotions, and behaviors as well as to the formation, quality, and stability of dating and ma...

As communication axis, communication philosophy interrogates the idea that in postmodern society communication constructs reality. The philosopher is called to achieve a new synthesis, between philosophy and media communication, to assume the condition of man of media communication. Media has a decisive influence in relation to the constitution of reality in post-modern consciousness. Communica...

Title of Thesis: DIRECTION OF PARTNER PSYCHOLOGICAL AGGRESSION AND OUTCOMES OF COUPLE THERAPY: MODERATING EFFECTS OF CLIENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THERAPEUTIC GAINS Morgan Anne Childers, Master of Science, 2012 Thesis directed by: Professor Norman Epstein Department of Family Science Research has consistently found that contrary to longstanding beliefs, partner aggression, both in psychological and p...

Background: Different patterns of gender-based relationships between attitude toward smoking and self-esteem with smoking behavior have reported. However, such associations may be much more complex than a simply supposed linear relationship. We aimed to propose a method of providing hand details on the total and gender-based scenarios of the relationships between attitude toward smoking and sel...

T N a previous communication (3), the induction •*• of sleep, accompanied by typical brain wave patterns, during hypnosis was reported and described. The present communication concerns the brain wave changes associated with hypnotic modifications of behavior less profound than alternation of sleep and waking. The significance of these changes will be discussed in terms of the function of the br...

While the quality and robustness of animation techniques for virtual human have improved greatly over the past couple of decades, techniques for improving their intelligence have not kept pace. Ideally, agents would be smart without being all-knowing and their future behaviors would be affected by their acquired knowledge just as with their real human counterparts. In this paper we present a me...

Adding to the growing literature explicating the links between romantic relationships and health, this study examined how both couple-level characteristics, particularly union type (e.g., dating, cohabiting, or marriage) and interracial pairing, and interpersonal characteristics (e.g., partner strain and support), predicted young adults’ physical and mental health. Using dyadic data from a samp...

background: marriage is a social institution that will form the basis of human communication. marital adaptability and satisfaction are what important in marriage. marital adaptability is a situation in which most of the time, the couple’s feelings of happiness and satisfaction are met. marital adaptability is made through mutual love, care for one another, acceptance, understanding each other ...