Videogame avatars, while technically virtual identities, also often reflect the aspects of players’ identities and values in the physical, social, and cultural world of the player outside of the game (i.e., the “real world”). These aspects of real world identity include phenomena such as social group categorization and stereotyping. In this paper, we present AIRvatar, an Artificial Intelligence...

One of the fundamental concerns American people is search for identity. The most important aspect Ashley C Ford’s narrative transition from childhood to maturity. She grew up with her father incarcerated majority life, and she held him in high regard even though had no idea what he done be there. This study examines one recent identities English literature, which has inspired readers both menta...

What people are, to themselves and others, is a product of a lifetime of interpersonal interactions superimposed over a very general ethological endowment (Harré, & van Langenhove, 1999). According to Eckert (2000) an individual is a linguistic agent building social meaning in their mutually-engaged community. Individual identity is constructed with group identities, and engagement in the world...

The aims of this study are to (1) empirically identify the personality subtypes of adolescents with anorexic disorders and (2) investigate the personality disorders, identity disturbances, and affective features associated with the different subtypes. We assessed 102 adolescent patients with Eating Disorders (anorexia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified) using three clinical ins...

Recruitment of ‘top-down’ frontal attentional mechanisms is held to support detection of changes in task-relevant stimuli. Fluctuations in intrinsic frontal activity have been shown to impact task performance more generally. Meanwhile, the amygdala has been implicated in ‘bottom-up’ attentional capture by threat. Here, 22 adult human participants took part in a functional magnetic resonance cha...

Recruitment of 'top-down' frontal attentional mechanisms is held to support detection of changes in task-relevant stimuli. Fluctuations in intrinsic frontal activity have been shown to impact task performance more generally. Meanwhile, the amygdala has been implicated in 'bottom-up' attentional capture by threat. Here, 22 adult human participants took part in a functional magnetic resonance cha...

This paper takes a broad and novel approach to analysing the Iranian Jewish community of Iran, both as a distinct group and as a constituent part of Iran’s wider population sharing its national culture. The goal was to find a new way of addressing the topic, avoiding many ambiguities, and bringing all discourse back to its starting point: Iranian identity. If we identify Persian roots as the fo...

abstract the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy in increasing marital intimacy. the research procedure was quasi experimental using mixed subjects design (3*2). the statistical population were couples who entered one of the counseling centers because of intimacy problems and marital conflict . sample group consisted of 32 subjects...