In the paper we investigate how owner personality, attitude and gender influence dog behavior, dyadic practical functionality and the level of dog salivary cortisol. In three meetings, 12 female and 10 male owners of male dogs answered questionnaires including the Neo-FFI human personality inventory. Their dyadic behavior was video-taped in a number of test situations, and saliva samples were c...

Attachment is central to the development of children's regulatory processes. It has been associated with developmental and psychiatric health across the life span, especially emotional and behavioral regulation of negative affect when stressed (Schore, 2001; Schore and Schore, 2008). Assessment of attachment patterns provides a critical frame for understanding emerging developmental competencie...

Automatic prediction of engagement in human-human and human-machine dyadic and multiparty interaction scenarios could greatly aid in evaluation of the success of communication. A corpus of eight face-to-face dyadic casual conversations was recorded and used as the basis for an engagement study, which examined the effectiveness of several methods of engagement level recognition. A convolutional ...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the psychometric properties of language in dyadic interactions. Using text-analysis, it was possible to assess the degree to which people coordinate their word use in natural conversations. In Experiments 1 (n = 130) and 2 (n = 32), college students interacted in dyadic conversations in laboratory-based private Internet chat rooms. Experiment 3 anal...

objective: marital adjustment has been regarded as an important issue in chronic illnesses. some studies have addressed the effect of viral hepatitis on patients' spouses but there is still limited information on the topic. this study has compared marital adjustment in patients suffering from different stages of viral hepatitis with that of a healthy population. methods: in a cross-sectional st...

Abstract The objective of this case-based study is to understand how the dyadic interaction between key governance actors can influence decision-making aimed at directing and controlling a family firm. provides evidence that back stage formal process offer privileged position for firm owners who serve on board, non-family member Chair Board, before, after board meetings. cases studied suggest i...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Are humans too generous? The discovery that subjects choose to incur costs to allocate benefits to others in anonymous, one-shot economic games has posed an unsolved challenge to models of economic and evolutionary rationality. Using agent-based simulations, we show that such generosity is the necessary byproduct of selection on decision systems for regulating dyadic reciprocity under condition...