Warrior Resilience Training (WRT) is an educational class designed to enhance Warrior resilience, thriving, and posttraumatic growth for Soldiers deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Warrior Resilience Training uses rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), Army leadership principles, and positive psychology as a vehicle for students to apply resilient philosophies derived from Army Warrior Eth...

We outline an experimental study investigating the use of facial expressions of emotion, as a means of non-verbal communication in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). The premise is that by incorporating an emotional channel alongside the conventional informational content, the user experience may be enriched. We established detailed knowledge about how facial expressions can be effectiv...

We carried out three experiments aimed at testing whether the compatibility effect between a word’s emotional connotation and arm movement direction found by Chen and Bargh (1999) is affected by hand posture. Participants responded by pressing two buttons: one placed near their body, the other far away. In Experiment 1, they classified words as positive or negative by hitting the response butto...

Trust models have been used widely in the literature in a number of different contexts. We examine an emotive scenario where trust would be extremely useful: online dating. We explore the use of a semiring-based trust model with online dating in a social network. Introductions are facilitated by friend-of-a-friend connections in the network in a manner similar to some real world scenarios. We s...

We review a program of research that has suggested that affective states high in motivationally intensity (e.g., enthusiasm, disgust) narrow cognitive scope, whereas affective states low in motivationally intensity (e.g., joy, sadness) broaden cognitive scope. Further supporting this interpretation, indices of brain activations, derived from human electroencephalography, suggest that the motiva...

This paper explores the role of emotive responses in communicative behavior between robots and humans. Done properly, a ective communciation should be natural and intuitive for people to understand. This implies that the robot's emotive behavior should be life-like. The ability to establish and maintain a rich a ective dynamic with people has placed important constraints on our robotic implemen...

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a game interface that is based on affective interactions between a player and a computer pet. As opposed to many traditional computer games, users are not expected to manipulate control devices in a skillful manner to win the game. Instead the basic idea is to elicit certain reactions of the pet via appropriate emotive user behaviors. For improved accuracy ...