Attitudes toward robots influence the tendency to accept or reject robotic devices. Thus it is important to investigate whether and how attitudes toward robots can change. In this pilot study we investigate attitudinal changes in elderly citizens toward a tele-operated robot in relation to three parameters: (i) the information provided about robot functionality, (ii) the number of encounters, (...

results structural coefficients showed that the pattern of high scores in borderline personality features correlated with the pattern of high scores in alexithymia and child’s attitude toward mother. therefore, the results showed that combination of low borderline personality features can probably decrease the likelihood of alexithymia and child’s attitude toward mother. conclusions alexithymia...

palestinian contemporary writer, dr. samira azzam is one of the pioneers in short story- writing at arabic and palestinian literature. the present article deals with a survey on attitude of this writer toward human-by content analysis- and to achieve this objective, rather than documentation and criticism of arab expert critiques’ comments about works of samira azzam, writer’s approach toward h...

objectives: the main purpose of this study was to determine the interactive role of physical activity and personality traits inpsychosocial development of elders. methods & materials: this research was a casual comparative with 300 elders (150 active and 150 non-actives) with 60-85 years old from tehran selected as statistical sample on available bases. all subjects completed psychosocial devel...

We investigated whether different, personality-related affective attitudes are associated with different brain electric field (EEG) sources before any emotional challenge (stimulus exposure). A 27-channel EEG was recorded in 15 subjects during eyes-closed resting. After recording, subjects rated 32 images of human faces for affective appeal. The subjects in the first (i.e., most negative) and f...

INTRODUCTION Students living with epilepsy still find themselves confronted with social barriers that prevent them from academic achievements. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge and attitudes of school teachers and to determine the factors associated with good knowledge and positive attitude among nursery, primary and secondary school teachers in Kano, Northwestern Nige...

-This study explores the personality traits, perceived personal control, behavioral biases, culture, and socio-demographics in determining individual equity investor’s risk assumption attitude. The study uses a survey approach to collect responses from small equity investors. A conceptual model is developed and hypotheses are tested through structure equation model (SEM). The result identifies ...

introduction: each year nearly 529,000 women worldwide die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.premarital education can play an effective role in improving the health of the pregnancy.selection of appropriate educational practices leads to more useful education.this study examined the effect of a focus group about prenatal health on knowledge and attitudes of marriage candidategirl...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relation of personality traits with depression in active and non – active elderly women in tehran city. methods & materials: the present research is descriptive–correlation. for this purpose, 188 elderly women (94 active and 94 non - active elders) in the age range of 63-82 in tehran city availably selected as statistical sample. meas...