Research has examined information technology (IT) discontinuance within organizational and consumer contexts with various explanations for this phenomenon. Unfortunately, these explanations are based on the assumption of stability of technology usage, and, therefore, not applicable for explaining the behavior of technology users who have experienced interruptions during technology usage. This s...

A set of computerized tasks was used to investigate sex differences in the speed and accuracy of emotion recognition in 62 men and women of reproductive age. Evolutionary theories have posited that female superiority in the perception of emotion might arise from women’s near-universal responsibility for child-rearing. Two variants of the child-rearing hypothesis predict either across-theboard f...

Information recognition and extraction of human emotions are necessary for machines to communicate smoothly with humans and to realize emotion communications. We focus on human psychological characteristics to develop general-purpose agents that can recognize human emotion and create machine emotion. We comprehensively analyze brain waves, voice sounds and picture images that represent informat...

Emotion status influences important areas in our daily lives. Many researchers reported successful emotion classifications. The aim of this study is to find out the neurophysiological characteristics of the brain waves while affective pictures elucidate emotion. Four healthy college students volunteered the stimulus experiment with the standard IAPS affective pictures. All brain waves showed ac...

Current empirical evidence regarding nonconsciously priming emotion concepts is limited to positively versus negatively valenced affect. This article demonstrates that specific, equally valenced emotion concepts can be nonconsciously activated, remain inaccessible to conscious awareness, and still affect behavior in an emotion-specific fashion. In Experiment 1A, participants subliminally primed...