This paper explores the role of emotive responses in communicative behavior between robots and humans. Done properly, affective 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 affective dynamic with people has placed important constraints on our robotic implem...

The traditional notion of word meaning used in natural language processing is literal or lexical meaning as used in dictionaries and lexicons. This relatively objective notion of lexical meaning is different from more subjective notions of emotive or affective meaning. Our aim is to come to grips with subjective aspects of meaning expressed in written texts, such as the attitudes or value expre...

The paper presents a support method for affect analysis of utterances in Japanese. One of the problems in the system for affect analysis developed by us before was confusing the valence of emotion types in the final stage of analysis. The cause of this problem was extracting from the utterance only the emotive expression keyword without its grammatical context. To solve this problem we enhance ...

Rational emotive behaviour therapists view stress-related disorders as originating in irrational beliefs (iB’s), phirosophies and anitudes, as opposed to the stressor. People who suffer from stress d@erfrom people who suffer from emotional or neurotic problems mainly an that the stressed people have iB’s about specific, short-term or more readdy identifiable events, as opposed w the more mundan...

Two play therapies applied by parents for darkness phobia in young children are compared. Seventy-eight children between the ages of 4 and 8 were recruited from twenty-seven schools. The participants were randomly assigned to three experimental conditions: bibliotherapy and games, emotive performances, and no treatment. The treatments were applied at home by parents who had previously been trai...