Background The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of emotionally focused therapy (EFT-C) on promoting marital adjustment of infertile couples with marital conflicts by improving quality of life. MaterialsAndMethods This is a semi-experimental study with a pre- and post–test design in which 30 infertile couples (60 individuals) were chosen by purposive sampling. Couples were ra...

Interacting with intelligence in an ever-changing environment calls for exceptional performances from artificial beings. One mechanism explored to produce intuitive-like behavior in artificial intelligence applications is emotion. This chapter examines the engineering of a mechanism that synthesizes and processes an artificial agent’s internal emotional states: the Affective Space. Through use ...

The question we address is the following: how do agents that are embedded in large societies — hundreds to millions of agents — focus the enormous potential for interaction with other agents towards the most productive encounters? The relevance of this question needs little argument. From a social studies viewpoint, it is tied to the understanding of a society's structure and how it — implicitl...

In two experiments, dysphoric and nondysphoric students first concentrated on either self-focused or other-focused phrases and then performed an ostensibly unrelated task involving the interpretation of homographs with both personal and impersonal meanings. In Experiment 1, they constructed sentences for the homographs; dysphoric students' sentences were more emotionally negative (although not ...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people have responded and psychologically coped in different ways. These psychological coping strategies not been identified how they relate to levels distress largely remain unknown, especially amongst Nairobi residents. Thus, explore association between due COVID-19 two tools assessment were used for data collection; Brief Cope inventory COVID-19-related health...