We describe the structure of a Bayesian network designed to monitor the behavior of a user interacting with a conversational computer and use that information to estimate the user’s emotional state. Our model of emotional state uses two discrete dimensions, valence (bad to good) and arousal (calm to excited), to capture the dominant aspects of physical emotional response. Emotion is expressed b...

Objective: Divorce is one of the social problems and underlying factors of many psychological problems, thereby demanding necessary research to prevent its occurrence. This study aimed to construct and validate Emotional Divorce Scale in Iranian couples.  Methods: This was a cross-sectional research. A total number of 400 married individuals living in east part of Tehran City, Iran between May...

background: emotional intelligence (ei) has recently been considered as one of the necessary elements for success and achievement in medical fields. the present study was conducted in iran to compare the ei in medical and non-medical students adjusted for the other relevant factors. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from october 2011 to january 2012 on 872 students of medicine, ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: To date, little is known about how advancing age may impact perception of emotions in music. This study was designed to test whether there are age-related changes in emotional judgments and psychological structure for musical emotions. METHODS Twenty-five older (64-81 years) and 25 younger (18-30 years) listeners performed emotional judgments and free cate...

We adapted the adult French version of the Basic Empathy Scale to French children aged 6-11 years, in order to probe the factorial structure underlying empathy. A total of 410 children (189 girls and 221 boys) were instructed to fill out the resulting Basic Empathy Scale in Children (BES-C). Results showed that, as in adulthood, the three-factor model of empathy (i.e., emotional contagion, cogn...

Improvements of visual hyperacuity are a key focus in research of perceptual learning. Of particular interest has been the specificity of visual hyperacuity learning to the particular features of the trained stimuli as well as disruption of learning that occurs in some cases when different stimulus features are trained together. The implications of these phenomena on the underlying learning mec...

Building on the emotional labor and authentic leadership literatures, we advance a conceptual model of leader emotional displays. Three categories of leader emotional displays are identified: surface acting, deep acting and genuine emotions. The consistency of expressed leader emotions with affective display rules, together with the type of display chosen, combines to impact the leader's felt a...

The structure of trauma-related inhibition processes in an emergency service sample L ANDREWS, University of Essex, S JOSEPH, University of Warwick, T VAN ROOYEN, University of Essex & T DALGLEISH, MRC Cambridge Background: A recent theoretical conceptualisation of the underlying structure of inhibition processes employed following trauma, suggested four different types: controlled informationa...

The present study was aimed at identifying potential behavioral and neural correlates of emotional intelligence (EI) by using scalp-recorded Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). EI levels were defined according to both self-report questionnaire and a performance-based test. We identified ERP correlates of emotional processing by comparing ERPs elicited in trials using pleasant, neutral and unpleasa...

VALUES are tentatively defined as numbers assigned to types of syntactic relations such that connections of higher value are established in preference to connections of lower value during sentence-structure determination. Given a text in which sentence structures are known, the values of some syntactic relations can be estimated by the following plan: assign value 1 to relations such that no re...