“You feel a little bit embarrassed, but you get over it”: EFL students’ beliefs and emotions about speaking

Now you feel it, now you don't.

Recent studies have reported that in normal healthy individuals, the perception of illusory sensations in one modality can be induced by the presentation of a stimulus in another modality. These illusory sensations may arise from the activation of a tactile representation in memory induced by the non-target stimulus, in a process mirroring that thought to be responsible for many forms of medica...

Haptic Illusions: What You Feel Isn’t Always What You Get

In this paper, we present the discovery of new haptic illusions, and a method for creating further haptic illusions. Pure haptic illusions were created by mixing force cues with geometric cues to make people feel shapes that differ from the actual shape of the object. In particular, we found that an area that feels harder to move through and easier to move out of can be interpreted as a region ...

How do you feel while driving your car? Depends on how you think about it

Hedonic expectations and global memories converge, but both are poorly related to actual hedonic experience. We find that the economic value of a car predicts the reported hedonic experience of driving under prospective (How would it feel?) and global retrospective (How does it usually feel?) conditions, but not under episodic conditions (How did it feel last time?), unless the car was the foca...

Speed Reading: You Can't Always Get What You Want, but Can You Sometimes Get What You Need?

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...