Real-time information from microposts like Twitter is useful for applications in the crisis management domain. Currently, that potentially valuable information remains mostly unused by the command staff, mainly because the sheer amount of information cannot be handled efficiently. Sentiment analysis has been shown as an effective tool to detect microposts (such as tweets) that contribute to sit...

This paper explores some possibilities of using real-time processing of users’ physiological signals in order to improve the interaction with character-based interfaces. Specifically, interfaces that adapt to or reflect a user’s affective state as derived from the user’s autonomic nervous system activity will be discussed. The ‘Emotion Mirror’ is an example of a system where the user’s emotions...

This article reviews current literature examining associations between components of the family context and children and adolescents' emotion regulation (ER). The review is organized around a tripartite model of familial influence. Firstly, it is posited that children learn about ER through observational learning, modeling and social referencing. Secondly, parenting practices specifically relat...

setup of an emotion recognition or emotional speech recognition system is directly related to how emotion changes the speech features. in this research, the influence of emotion on the anger and happiness was evaluated and the results were compared with the neutral speech. so the pitch frequency and the first three formant frequencies were used. the experimental results showed that there are lo...

Recent studies suggest that gender may be less influential on the experience of emotion than originally believed. Most of these studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on gender differences in discrete emotional experiences, paying less attention to the ways in which emotions may co-occur within a relatively short period. Using the General Survey’s 1996 emotions module, I examine the ...

This study examined the stress coping strategies of athletes with high psychological vulnerability. The participants were 487 university (mean age = 19.8 years, SD 0.88, 153 women). Data collected using Vulnerability Scale for University Athletes and General Coping Questionnaire analyzed by conducting a multivariate analysis variance. results showed significant relationships between vulnerabili...

Interest in the cognitive and/or emotional basis of complex decision-making, and the related phenomenon of emotion-based learning, has been heavily influenced by the Iowa Gambling Task. A number of psychological variables have been investigated as potentially important in understanding emotion-based learning. This paper reviews the extent to which humans are explicitly aware of how we make such...

Current neofunctionalist views of emotion underscore the biologically adaptive and psychologically constructive contributions of emotion to organized behavior, but little is known of the development of the emotional regulatory processes by which this is fostered. Emotional regulation refers to the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional ...