Although a surfeit of studies have examined the students’ attitude towards foreign and / or second language both inside and outside Iran, it seems scanty studies have been devoted to evaluate Prospect-trained students’ attitude towards English. This quantitative study investigated the students’ attitudes towards English language learning among 80 junior high school students in Ahvaz, Iran. Thes...

Several researchers on country-of-origin (coo) have expressed their interest in knowing how consumers’ emotional reactions toward coo-cues affect product attitude formation. This paper shows how Fuzzy Set Theory might serve as a useful approach to that problem. Data was gathered by means of selfadministered questionnaires. Technically, orness of OWA-operators enabled us to distinguish consumers...

The facial feedback hypothesis holds that emotional experiences are derived from facial expressions. Ten published studies indicating that manipulated facial expressions do produce corresponding emotional experience are contrasted with Tourangeau and Ellsworth's sole published failure to demonstrate this relation. Six other studies using a different but theoretically consistent paradigm also de...

We examined how culturally relevant variables, including universal-diverse orientation (UDO), an attitude characterized by awareness and acceptance of similarities and differences between self and others, and emotional intelligence, the ability to accurately monitor emotions, might be related to empathy.Two-hundred-and-eleven counseling graduate students completed measures of these variables, a...

People can discriminate cheaters from cooperators by their appearance. However, successful cheater detection can be thwarted by a posed smile, which cheaters display with greater emotional intensity than cooperators. The present study investigated the underlying neural and cognitive mechanisms of a posed smile, which cheaters use to conceal their anti-social attitude, in terms of hemifacial asy...

This paper deals with an acoustic analysis of the sets of Czech sentences uttered by single speaker. The data used in this analysis consists of both emotional and neutral sentences. We have been especially interested in some features which are supposed to influence the perception of speech, such as F0, phoneme duration, formant frequencies or energy. The analyzed sets of sentences were composed...

the present research is a field study in order to investigate the attitude of mothers towards education of puberty problems, in secondary school children, girls age between 11-1.4 years old, in tehran, 1993.   the instrument used was a questionnaire and data was collected through a two section questionnaire. the first part contained demographic information (10 items), and the second section pos...

In this paper, we suggest a psychological theory of dependency as an escape from feeling existential suffering and a poor quality of life. The ways in which human beings escape hidden existential pains are multiple. The wide range of dependency states seems to be the most common escape strategy used. If the patient can be guided into the hidden existential pain to feel, understand, and integrat...