Search results for "behavioral"

An intermediate level between the psychological and the neurobiological levels of descriptions of appraisal-emotion dynamics

2005

Conceptual space is proposed as an intermediate representation level between the psychological and the neurobiological levels of descriptions of appraisal and emotions. The main advantage of the proposed intermediate representation is that the appraisal and emotions dynamics are described by using the terms of geometry.

Feature creation as a byproduct of attentional processing

1998

Attributing the creation of new features to categorization requirements implies that the exemplars displayed are correctly assigned to their category. This constraint limits the scope of Schyns et al.'s proposal to supervised learning. We present data suggesting that this constraint is unwarranted and we argue that feature creation is better thought of as a byproduct of the attentional, on-line processing of incoming information.

Studying adaptive changes in the behaviour of infected hosts: a long and winding road

2005

The Role of Guilt and Empathy on Prosocial Behavior.

2022

Research on the effects of guilt on interpersonal relationships has shown that guilt frequently motivates prosocial behavior in dyadic social situations. When multiple persons are involved, however, this emotion can be disadvantageous for other people in the social environment. Two experiments were carried out to examine the effect of guilt and empathy on prosocial behavior in a context in which more than two people are involved. Experiment 1 investigates whether, in three-person situations, guilt motivates prosocial behavior with beneficial effects for the victim of one’s actions but disadvantageous effects for the third individual. Participants were faced with a social dilemma in wh…

Epilepsy: A Multifaced Spectrum Disorder

2023

Epilepsy is one of the most widespread chronic conditions, affecting about 50 million people worldwide [...]

Pair-bonding in birds and the active role of females: a critical review of the empirical evidence.

2000

Over the recent years the role of females in maintaining or breaking the pair-bond in socially monogamous birds has received growing attention. Here, we review the overall evidence for a direct and predominant role of female behaviour in initiating or preventing divorce and its relevance for the understanding of both interspecific and intraspecific variation in divorce rate in monogamous bird species. The evidence is so far limited to a few species. We discuss the relevance of some alternative explanations and confounding factors. We conclude that the possible predominance of females in both initiating divorce or limiting its occurrence deserves further consideration. Future studies should …

The relationship of dental students’ characteristics to social support, psychosocial factors, lifestyle, and quality of life

2022

To examine the relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, student academic information, social support, sense of coherence, anxiety, lifestyle, and quality of life among dental students.A cross-sectional study among 233 dental students in Brazil. We captured data on sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics, social support through Social Support Appraisal, psychosocial factors (sense of coherence and anxiety based on SOC-13 and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 - anxiety subscale, respectively), lifestyle as per individual Lifestyle Profile and quality of life based on VERAS-Q. Data was analysed through Structural Equation Modelling.Greater social support, higher…

But who killed Harry?

1996

Review of Capone (2010): Perspectives on Language Use and Pragmatics. A Volume in Memory of Sorin Stati

2011

El uso problemático del smartphone y la autoestima: un meta-análisis

2023

El uso problemático del smartphone ha sido catalogado como un problema de salud pública por la Organización Mundial de la Salud. El objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar la relación entre el uso problemático del smartphone y la autoestima. Se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en las bases de datos PsycInfo, PubMed y Scopus recuperando un total de 30 estudios relevantes con una muestra total de 20916 participantes. El tamaño del efecto obtenido mediante un modelo de efectos aleatorios es significativo y negativo (r = -.25; IC 95% = -.28, -.21), por lo que las personas que poseen una menor autoestima, presentan mayores niveles de uso problemático del smartphone. Los análisis de meta-regr…