Models predicting technology acceptance (TAM, TTF) rely on task-doers’ cognitive beliefs (along with other beliefs) about the technology and the fit between technology and task to predict technology use. Although these cognitive beliefs are theorized as depending on the interactions of technology, task, and individual characteristics, these interaction effects are understudied. This paper attem...

  Purpose: Bipolar disorders of complex and multi-dimensional nature necessitate new therapies.   This research compared the effect of meta-cognitive and psycho-educational family therapy on   dysfunctional attitudes of bipolar patients.   Materials and Methods: This was a semi-empirical research with pretest-posttest design, using   control group. From among the bipolar woman who had referred ...

Studies on epistemically suspect beliefs (ESB) have suggested that individual’s analytic cognition suppresses unwarranted beliefs, however, our previous studies also showed that an inhibitory effect of analytic cognition was higher among Westerners than Easterners. Rather, intuitive cognition was a common predictor of beliefs between two cultures. Among several cultural differences in cognitive...

To build a data-integration system, the application designer must specify a mediated schema and supply the descriptions of data sources. A source description contains a source schema that describes the content of the source, and a mapping between the corresponding elements of the source schema and the mediated schema. Manually constructing these mappings is both labor-intensive and error-prone,...

This paper describes a model of learning stages called OCTR. Learning under OCTR advances gradually as the degree of social context increases. Furthermore, OCTR can also serve as a framework for describing the cognitive development and motivation of students, categorizing many existing teaching strategies, and better understanding how to introduce meta-cognition and attitude in systems for educ...

Cognitive theory and research have traditionally highlighted the relevance of the core beliefs about oneself, the world, and the future to human emotions. For some individuals, however, core beliefs may also explicitly involve spiritual themes. In this article, we propose a cognitive model of worry, in which positive/negative beliefs about the Divine affect symptoms through the mechanism of int...