Teaching children how to behave socially and how to identify and react to emotions forms the basis of social-emotional learning. So far little research in interaction design has been devoted to tangible interactive objects that can support the scaffolding of children’s socio-emotional learning. This PhD research aims to design and evaluate tangible interactive objects for enhancing children’s s...

In mammalians, brain Limbic System is responsible for emotional process. An important part of motor learning as well as attention is formed by the system. Brain Emotional Learning (BEL) process of mammalians has been mathematically modeled. Based on the model, a controller architecture called Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller (BELBIC) has been developed. Emotional Learning i...

The major aim of this study was to examine the role of emotional intelligence in second language learning. At the end of the academic year, 508 second year students at four universities in Iran were asked to complete the Emotional Intelligence Inventory (EQ-i). EQ-i data were matched with the students’ academic records, scores in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Predicting second lang...

Different research studies have proved that emotions meet a pivotal role in cognitive processes and in particular the studies made by Damasio who argues that human-beings without emotions could not make the simplest decision (Damasio 1994). We think that the fail of Intelligent Distance Learning Systems to achieve an efficient learning is mainly resulting from the lacking of Emotional Intellige...

This article describes research conducted to evaluate the impact of service learning on exam scores and emotional empathy in a life-span development course. Service learning was 1 of 3 project options offered in the course; others included an interview project and a research paper. With the exception of the first exam, scores were significantly higher for the servicelearning students compared t...

arabic language instruction in iran has always relied on cognitive factors, and has been based on grammar-translation method. consequently, issues such as arabic learner's and teacher's mental processes during learning and teaching, metacognitive factors, interlocutors' characteristics and the conversation setting, learner's information processing procedure, etc. have never ...

Educational policy on emotional intelligence appears to be based more on mass-media science journalism than on actual educational and psychological research. The first section of this article provides an overview of the research areas of emotional intelligence, social and emotional learning, and character education; it further examines how these areas became linked in the popular press. The sec...

o enhance the performances of rough-neural networks (R-NNs) in the system identification‎, ‎on the base of emotional learning‎, ‎a new stable learning algorithm is developed for them‎. ‎This algorithm facilitates the error convergence by increasing the memory depth of R-NNs‎. ‎To this end‎, ‎an emotional signal as a linear combination of identification error and its differences is used to achie...