How does an emotional culture of joy cultivate team resilience? A sociocognitive perspective

Team Resilience: A Neurodynamic Perspective

Neurophysiologic models were created from US Navy navigation teams performing required simulations that captured the crews’ dynamic responses to the changing task environment. Crew performances were simultaneously rated by two expert observers for team resilience using a team process rubric adopted by the US Navy Submarine Force. Symbolic neurodynamic (NS) representations of the 1-40 Hz EEG amp...

A SOCIOCOGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE: An Agentic Perspective

This article presents a social-cognitive theory of substance abuse. The exercise of self-regulatory agency plays a central role in this approach. Perceived self-efficacy is the foundation of human agency. Unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act. Self-efficacy beliefs promote desired changes through cognitive, motivational, affec...

Emotional Prosody - Does Culture Make A Difference?

We report on a multilingual comparison study on the effects of prosodic changes on emotional speech. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Greece and Turkey. Semantically identical sentences expressing emotional relevant content were translated into the target languages and were manipulated systematically with respect to pitch range, duration model, and jitter simulation. Perception exper...

Gender: An Emotional Intelligence Perspective

Dear Editor:    The rising importance of emotional intelligence gives a clear idea of the significant differences between men and women, since men and women are emotionally intelligent in different ways. Understanding and appreciating such differences leads to the improvement of the existing relationships and to the establishment of new relationships in a satisfying manner.       One of the pri...

Emotional Intelligence & Team Performance: Does Training Matter?