This research is aimed to study whether we will have the same attitude change when we have the same intensity of cognitive or emotional level for attitude. People who have higher involvement will be persuaded by central route and low involvement will be persuaded by peripheral route: the matching effect in attitude change. The present study controlled the intensity of both cognitive and emotion...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes and the influence of emotional intelligence is the objective of this work. METHOD Nursing professionals answered a questionnaire that assessed the attitude towards suicide and emotional intelligence. RESULTS The results show a general adverse attitude towards suicidal behavior. The moral dimension of suicide makes the differences between mental health and emerg...

extended abstract 1-introduction in recent years, the criminological community has witnessed a resurgence of interest in strain theory. “traditional strain theory (1955, 1960, 1970) posits that individuals are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals like monetary success or middleclass status through legitimate means. this goal blockage may pressure some to pu...

This study aimed to: (1) evaluate food craving and high-sweet-fat food craving across the menstrual cycle; (2) compare the craving and explicit/implicit emotional response to different food; and (3) investigate the reward sensitivity among PMDD and control groups. The PMDD group without treatment history and control group were evaluated for food craving, emotional response to food, implicit att...

P and MacInnis (2006, in this issue) provide the always sound advice to examine the boundaries of the focal construct, in this case attitudes. They wonder whether attitudes are capable of predicting differences in levels of personal investment and commitment to resulting behavior, and they question whether attitude dimensions such as strength and extremity, or additional dimensions and moderato...

BACKGROUND There is a growing emphasis towards including patients in medical decision-making. However, not all patients are actively involved in such decisions. Research has so far focused mainly on the influence of patient characteristics on preferences for active involvement. However, it can be argued that a patient's social context has to be taken into account as well, because social norms a...

We present a framework for handling emotional variations in a speech-based natural language system for use in the MRE virtual training environment. The system is a first step toward addressing issues in emotion-based modeling of verbal communicative behavior. We cast the problem of emotional generation as a distance minimization task, in which the system chooses between multiple valid realizati...