Reply to WS Watson

The Phoenix of Bipolarity: Reply to Watson and Tellegen (1999)

In their commentary on our review (J. A. Russell & J. M. Carroll, 1999), D. Watson and A. Tellegen (1999) agreed that when various factors, including activation, are taken into account, the structure of self-reported affect includes a bipolar dimension contrasting pleasant with unpleasant feelings. Agreement on this the central conclusion of our review may surprise readers familiar with the wid...

Anger and Approach: Reply to Watson (2009) and to Tomarken and Zald (2009)

C. S. Carver and E. Harmon-Jones (2009) reviewed evidence consistent with the idea that anger arises from a behavioral approach system. Commentary on that article by A. J. Tomarken and D. H. Zald (2009) raised questions about the many elements involved in acts of approach and limitations on what information can be provided by electroencephalograms. Commentary by D. Watson (2009) raised question...

Spatially diffuse inhibition affects multiple locations: a reply to Tipper, Weaver, and Watson (1996).

S. Tipper, B. Weaver, and F. Watson (1996) suggest that J. Pratt and R.A. Abrams's (1995) failure to find inhibition of return for more than the most recently cued location was because their 2-target display did not adequately capture some of the complexity of real-world visual environments. However, Tipper et al. tested a special case because they always cued 3 out of 4 potential targets (allo...

From AUML to WS-BPEL

The Web Services (WS) technology is currently gaining a wider and wider consensus. The features that characterise WSs, namely heterogeneity, distribution, openness, highly dynamic interactions, are some among the key characteristics of another emerging technology, that of intelligent agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs). In this paper we discuss the relationships between WSs and intelligent ag...

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