. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INTRODUCTION How can we understand the common denominator of Pavlov's salivating dogs, an ale named Hobgoblin, a market in southern France, and the bargaining for lock access on the Mississippi River? Pavlov's dogs were presented with pieces of delicious sausage that undoubtedly made them salivate

Abstract Views of undergraduates about the meaning of multiculturalism are examined in this paper. Following an analysis of these views, a way of organizing statements about the meanings and interpretations of multiculturalism is presented. Data come from a 1998 survey of seven hundred University

. To investigate these questions we assessed brain activity using fMRI while novice and expert meditation practitioners generated a loving-kindness-compassion meditation state. To probe affective reactivity, we presented emotional and neutral sounds during the meditation and comparison periods. Our main hypothesis

. This paper describes an approach that uses interactive computer games as an experimental setting for the study of emotion, behavior, and nonverbal communication. In the first, more technical part, we present a method that allows to automatically code facial behavior of a subject playing a

an overview of network analysis techniques and discusses their implementation in the VC context. A simple example illustrating network analysis is presented in the Appendix. Section II describes our data. In Section III, we analyze the effect of VC networking on fund performance. Section IV examines

coherence. What I’m going to say today announces in a very sketchy form a planned study of emotions as related to enunciation. It takes on the form of a series of open questions and unsolved problems. (I’m really at the beginning of the study, so please give me

children are characterized as displaying vigilant behaviors and motor quieting when confronted with novelty. They are unlikely to approach unfamiliar adults In addition, there have been a number of studies that have described the antecedents and developmental trajectories of behaviorally inhibited

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Evolutionary accounts of emotion typically assume that humans evolved to quickly and efficiently recognize emotion expressions because these expressions convey fitness-enhancing messages. The present research tested this assumption in 2 studies. Specifically, the authors examined (a) how quickly

provided a feedback about the emotional state of MAX (including smiles and compliments) and envelope feedback, which provided a feedback about the comprehension of the participants ´ contributions and presents MAX as an attentive listener. We found that smiling was the only nonverbal behaviour which