the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational structure and marital satisfaction. participants (n = 122; 72% female) were recruited among married students of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who completed personal concerns inventory (pci) and marital satisfaction questionnaire (msq). principal component analysis (pca) was used to summarize the pci data. a summar...

Interpersonal expectancy effects are less thoroughly understood in children than in adults, yet they can have practical implications for children's interactions. To understand better children's expectancies, this study extended earlier work to include expectancies of adults, preexisting (i.e., noninduced) expectancies, and joint effects of expectancies and subsequent perceptions. Children (N = ...

This study explored associations between the personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with either a virtual agent or a real human. The animated graphical agent, the Responsive Agent, responded to real human subjects’' storytelling behavior, using appropriately timed nonverbal (contingent) feedback. Interactants’' personal-Words. The results reveale...

Rapport has been identified as an important function of human interaction, but to our knowledge no model exists of building and maintaining rapport between humans and conversational agents over the long-term that operates at the level of the dyad. In this paper we leverage existing literature and a corpus of peer tutoring data to develop a framework able to explain how humans in dyadic interact...

Research show that teacher’s nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student’s cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of nonverbal immediacy using a virtual human. The virtual human attempts to use immediacy feedback to create rapport with the learner. Results show that the virtual human established rapport with learners but did not help them ach...

Dans certains cancers, un rapport direct a 6t6 6tabli entre la vascularisation de la tumeur et son comportement biologique; cette relation n'a pas 6t6 6tudi& dans le n5tinoblastome. Nous 6tudions le rapport quantitatif entre le comptage des vaisseaux et d'autres d6terminanis du pronostique sur38 yew 6nucl&s pour r6tinoblastome. On a W 6 une analyse B regression multiple pour examiner indbpendam...

This paper describes research on automatically building rapport. This is done by adapting responses in a spoken dialog system to users’ emotions as inferred from nonverbal voice properties. Emotions and their acoustic correlates will be extracted from a persuasive dialog corpus and will be used to implement an emotionally intelligent dialog system; one that can recognize emotion, choose an opti...

This present study aims to determine the relationship between coaching commitment and physical development of student-athletes from various public schools in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Respondents on are Senior High School Public Schools Grade 11 12. Descriptive statistics such as Mean Standard Deviation were used describe level according categories, Pearson Product Moment Correlation...

four cases of sclerodermia have been reported durintwo months. sclerodermia which seems to he hardness of the skin is actually a general affection that first appears on the skin and has various types: edematous, sclerema for children, and then the forms of patches or drops or bands or annulars. it is sor t of connective tissue affection and is chiefly observed in women and as the reason for it,...