background: various psychological interventions were considered as part of the treatments of irritable bowel syndrome. however, the effectiveness of coping strategies in improving symptoms of this disease remains unclear. the objective of this study was to assess the effects of coping strategies training in treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). methods: in this randomized, placebo-contro...

Voice quality is recognized to play an important role for the rendering of emotions in verbal communication. In this paper we explore the effectiveness of a processing framework for voice transformations finalized to the analysis and synthesis of emotive speech. We use a GMM-based model to compute the differences between an MBROLA voice and an anger voice, and we address the modification of the...

Because empathic patient interactions by dentists are associated with improved patient outcomes, self-reported declines in empathy during dental student training are a concern. This study examined differences in empathy in 178 dental students at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario from years one through four using an anonymous self-report web-based survey in a cross-...

Emotive imagery is a variant of systematic desensitization that has been developed for use in the treatment of children’s excessive fears. We outline clinical guidelines for the use of emotive imagery and present several case examples. Although emotive imagery appears to be useful and cost efŽ cient, controlled studies are needed to establish the efŽ cacy of emotive imagery and explore the acti...

Lifelike animated agents for knowledge-based learning environments can provide timely, customized advice to support learners’ problem-solving activities. By drawing on a rich repertoire of emotive behaviors to exhibit contextually appropriate facial expressions and emotive gestures, these agents could exploit the visual channel to more effectively communicate with learners. To address these iss...

In this paper we throw further light on four questions on the argumentative use of emotive words studied in the recent literature on persuasive definitions. (1) What is the semantic and argumentative structure of an emotive word? (2) Why are emotive words so powerful when used as argumentative instruments? (3) Why and (4) under what conditions are persuasive definitions (based on emotive words)...

Setting of data collection Phone account information Automated dialog system Medical emergencies Human-Human interactions Motivation Improve customer satisfaction Study real-life speech in highly emotive situations Studied emotions Negative, non-negative (but 7 emotions annotated) Anger, Fear, Relief, Sadness (but finer-grained annotation) Corpus used for experiments 5690 dialogs 20,013 user tu...

I coin the term ‘emotive markers’ to describe words like alas which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker’s emotive attitude towards the content of the utterances they occur in. I argue that there are important differences emotive markers and encoders of canonical not-at-issue content, like the utterance modifier frankly or the evidential adverb apparently. In contrast to the latter...