BACKGROUND The use of positive psychological interventions may be considered as a complementary strategy in mental health promotion and treatment. The present article constitutes a meta-analytical study of the effectiveness of positive psychology interventions for the general public and for individuals with specific psychosocial problems. METHODS We conducted a systematic literature search us...

We regard internal states of an automaton as emotional states of an individual, its outputs as its actions towards another individual, and a parameter aaecting its state transition as a personal trait. We therefore propose a representation of an individual with emotional states and a certain personality, by a stochastic automaton and a model of a group in which each individual begins conversati...

Mythology allocated a large part, fundamental and effectively to the human mind. The knowledge of mythology in fact recognizes the important infrastructure of ideas, culture and civilization. One of the most common ways to study mythology is to implement psychological ideas in mythology. The result is not only a better understanding of mythology, but also a better understanding of human psyche ...

Climate virtue ethics points to the subjective/personal dimensions of climate ethics, which have been largely neglected by previous research. There is a lot of research from diverse fields that pertains to the cultural and the individual dimensions that come along with climate virtue ethics, but, as of yet, these dimensions have hardly been examined together. Future research on climate virtue e...

The concept of place and the necessity of understanding the plan and thus the reality of architecture has always been an important issue for architects. The mental and psychological effects of architectural frames on human beings have been considered from the early shelters to today΄s modern structure. Since the human behavior is performed in defined spaces, it is necessary to design the physic...

Background: Nowadays, drug crimes have been recognized as one of the criminal acts whose effects generally affect the community, so in order to have a fair trial, the principle of innocence was considered in the process of investigating drug crimes. Given the rule of ethics over the law and their two-way relationship, it is necessary to have special requirements governing the institution of cri...

In the psycho-diagnostics of individual, it is important for specialists to be able select research methods, provide their psychometric criteria, know stages compiling and adapting questionnaires, apply them interpret empirical indicators. Such skills are provided at stage professional preparation students majoring in psychology. The article analyzes results study competencies psychology prepar...

The key issue in the design of today’s living spaces is the cognitive and socio psychological gap towards individual and social needs of today's human. Place attachment as a quality of urban space has a kind of product-oriented output and requires careful attention to the stages and process of attachment. In the analysis of this process, familiarity with cognitive structures and novel res...

Using computers to simulate human affective activities is a challenging work. After the analysis of human affective characters, this paper puts forward some artificial psychology models and mainly discusses a model based on HMM, and the concept of affective entropy which is used as the parameter index of constructing and evaluating individual characters of virtual human. This model considers hu...