When people see a snake, they are likely to activate both affective information (e.g., dangerous) and non-affective information about its ontological category (e.g., animal). According to the Affective Primacy Hypothesis, the affective information has priority, and its activation can precede identification of the ontological category of a stimulus. Alternatively, according to the Cognitive Prim...

Affective dimension is an important aspect of user experience in interactive media. For this reason, many authors are exploring how to induce relevant emotions and to improve the level of involvement in the interactive experience. In order to mediate the affective response several authors state that there is a mutual relationship between emotion and cognition. This vision suggests that it is po...

The understanding of empathy from a neuroscientific perspective has recently developed quickly, with numerous functional MRI studies associating different brain regions with different components of empathy. A recent meta-analysis across 40 fMRI studies revealed that affective empathy is most often associated with increased activity in the insula, whereas cognitive empathy is most often associat...

The article analyses the prediction of cognitive, affective and contextual factors to Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). Four different components of SWB were used in order to identify its different predictors. A sample of 303 adult students was collected and reassessed over a twomonth interval. Seven instruments were used to measure: Global Subjective Wellbeing; Satisfaction with Life in Domains; Pos...

This article makes recommendations to help team leaders effectively use ICT channels to develop and improve trust within their distributed virtual teams which will allow achieving a more effective team collaboration. Based on thorough review of the literature and content analysis, we have identified 29 factors for trust-building in this environment based on Cognitive Trust and seven factors bas...