This study investigated the relationships between children's secure base and emotion regulation, namely their behavioral strategies and emotional expressiveness, during different situational and social contexts in naturalistic settings. Fifty-five children ranging in age from 18 to 26 months of age and their mothers participated in this study. Children were exposed to three situational (fear, p...

The  current  study  investigated  the  expression  of  disagreement  by  Iranian  advanced  English learners.  The  data  for  the  study  comprised  the  recorded  discussions  of  26  male  and  female interlocutors  in  three  different  settings:  1)  language  institute,  2)  home  environment,  and  3) university  setting.  Analysis  of  the  arguments  pointed  to  the  influence  of  c...

Learned latent vector representations are key to the success of many recommender systems in recent years. However, traditional approaches like matrix factorization produce that capture global distributions a static recommendation scenario only. Such user or item do not background knowledge and customized concrete situational context sequential history events leading up it. This is fundamentally...

Generation of interesting narratives in a simulated dramatic story-world requires situated software agents with emotional competences. The operationalisation of concepts from appraisal theories of emotion can provide flexible roleplayers that reduce the required external macro-level control. Situatedness and the analysis of the social lifeworld of characters are the foundations of the presented...

Clinical empathy, which is defined as the ability to understand the patient's experience and feelings from the patient's perspective, is acknowledged to be an important aspect of quality healthcare. However, how work experience modulates the empathic responses and brain activation patterns in medical professions remains elusive. This fMRI study recruited one hundred female nurses, who varied th...

online impulsive purchasing is focused on those buying processes which simply break the borders of normal logical buying process, and are done after being influenced by some internal or external stimuli in a spare of moment and without complete evaluation of products’ alternatives. this subject especially in an online context becomes a popular one among researchers in management, economy and co...

We study the perception of situational power in written dialogs in the context of organizational emails and contrast it to the power attributed by organizational hierarchy. We analyze various correlates of the perception of power in the dialog structure and language use by participants in the dialog. We also present an SVM-based machine learning system using dialog structure and lexical feature...

Creativity is an underresearched topic in consumer behavior, yet integral in many instances of consumer problem solving. Two experiments were conducted to investigate antecedents and consequences of creativity in a consumption context. The results indicate that both situational factors (i.e., time constraints, situational involvement) and person factors (i.e., locus of control, metaphoric think...

OBJECTIVES The present study examined, prospectively and within the context of stress experienced in the natural environment, whether situational control served as a mediator between perceived social support and caregiver's mood. METHODS Data came from baseline assessments of individuals participating in health promotion interventions for women caregivers. Participants were 49 female caregive...