This study was the first-ever experiment to test how ideal expressions in hypothetical online dating profiles and exposure to romantic media are related to profile attractiveness, romantic beliefs, and endorsement of ideal partner characteristics. The sample contained 249 undergraduate students from a small, southwestern university. The study is a one-way experiment, with five manipulations and...

Language has an intrinsically evaluative and communicative function. Words can serve to describe emotional traits and states in others and communicate evaluations. Using electroencephalography (EEG), we investigate how the cerebral processing of emotional trait adjectives is modulated by their perceived communicative sender in anticipation of an evaluation. 16 students were videotaped while the...

Objective: This study was planned to test the statistical properties of prenatal psychosocial profile assessment tool in Turkish sample and examine its validity reliability on healthy pregnant women.
 Methods: conducted gynecology obstetrics outpatient clinic a training research hospital with 440 women between March June 2017.
 Results: In analysis performed for internal consistency P...

BACKGROUND pragmatic abilities in children. AIM to analyze the pragmatic abilities profile in normal preschool children and to verify if significant differences exist regarding the children's different socioeconomic levels. METHOD participants of this study were 30 children, with ages between 36 and 47 months, who attended public and private elementary schools - low and medium/high socioeco...

The article is devoted to the analysis of communicative and pragmatic features German advertisements about finding a partner, language which characterized by certain changes in lexical content. Lexical units for material were selected from on dating sites or newspaper sections with age categories: 25-40 years 60 more years. concise presentation information desire present yourself positively led...

abstract background: infertility predisposes the couples to mental and psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, anger, and partner abuse. this study aimed to investigate the association between infertility factors and the non-physical abuse between infertile spouses. materials and methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 262 infertile couples (131 female and ...

OBJECTIVE Determining the prevalence of alterations in informal workers’ audition, respiratory and vocal functions and their association with certain risk factors in Popayan, Colombia. METHODS This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study of 186 informal workers (i.e. people selling things in the street). After signing an informed consent form, an interview was held to obtain data regarding s...

The paper describes a possible approach to the design of believable dialogs between users and emotionally intelligent interactive agents capable of conveying emotional, verbal and non-verbal signals. User's affective profile is built according to the standard test in psychiatry and clinical psychology Emotions Profile Index. The agents have to predict and influence the behavior of users through...