background and purpose: regarding the role of body image and self-esteem in mental health in women, research examined the mediating role of self-esteem and body image in relation to the self-compassion and mental health in female students research method: the population is composed of girl students of payam noor of delfan city. for this purpose, 280 students were selected by random cluster samp...

A considerable amount of studies have been established on conditional reasoning supporting mental model theory of propositional reasoning. Mental model theory proposed by Johnson- larid and Byrne is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something occurs in the real world. Conditional reasoning as a kind of reasoning is the way to speak about possibilities or probabilities. The a...

background: despite the fact that new criteria of antisocial personality disorder (aspd) in diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-fi fth edition (dsm-5) were resulted from fi ve-factor model (ffm), there is a small amount of studies that investigate the relations between proposed personality traits and ffm. also, cross-cultural study in this field continuously would be needed.th...

planning for productivity factors of engineering resources is the main concern that should be addressed in the training and engineering management in different organizations. productivity of engineering resources, which eventually results in the organizational productivity, may be viewed from different perspectives. one of the best approaches is to study the engineering resources productivity w...

Background: A systematic and comprehensive mental training program to enhance athletes’ toughness is critical. The aim of this study was develop validate a set programs. Methods: developed, the validity reliability were tested on experts, practitioners, athletes. Training analyzed using content index (I-CVI S-CVI) modified Kappa (<...

In a well-known, very influential and fre quently quoted paper, †̃¿ On the Characteristics of Total Institutions,' Goffman (1961) calls attention to ideological disputes which are centred on total institutions. As he puts it: †̃¿ It is widely appreciated that total institutions typically fall considerably short of their official aims. It is less well appreciated that each of these official go...

Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991; 1993) present a theory of human deductive reasoning based on the notion of mental models. Unfortunately, the theory is incomplete. The present commentary argues that pragmatic considerations, particularly of the type discussed in Sperber and Wilson (1995), can complement the theory. Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991) (JL&B) conclude their book by claiming that their theor...