Particularly in knowledge-intensive jobs, employees are increasingly challenged by complex and dynamically changing work tasks. These developments make it difficult for to anticipate a day's upcoming tasks associated activities including methods, time requirements, potential problems arising the process. We present three arguments why this unpredictability represents contemporary occupational s...

A great number of investigations on person characterization rely on the assessment of the Big-Five personality traits, a prevalent and widely accepted model with strong psychological foundation. However, in the context on characterizing unfamiliar individuals from their voices only, it may be hard for assessors to determine the Big-Five traits based on their first impression. In this study, a 2...

In 1788, the Scottish physician John Ferriar published an ‘altered’ stage version of Oroonoko that ‘adapted’ the play to the ‘circumstances of the present times’.[1] In his preface to the play, Ferriar explains that ‘when the attempt to abolish the African Slave Trade commenced in Manchester, some active friends of the cause imagined, that by assembling a few of the principal topics, in a drama...

This study explored the perception of emotion appraisal dimensions on the basis of speech prosody in a cross-cultural setting. Professional actors from Australia and India vocally portrayed different emotions (anger, fear, happiness, pride, relief, sadness, serenity and shame) by enacting emotion-eliciting situations. In a balanced design, participants from Australia and India then inferred asp...

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Hope helps alleviate suffering. In the case of terminal illness, recent experience in palliative medicine has taught physicians that hope is durable and often thrives even in the face of imminent death. In this article, I examine the perspectives of philosophers, theologians, psychologists, clinicians, neuroscientists, and poets, and provide a series of observations, connections, and gestures a...

This study implemented an innovative new model of delivering a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program that replaces six of the eight traditional in-person sessions with group telephonic sessions (tMBSR) and measured the program's impact on the health and well-being of nurses employed within a large health care organization. As part of a nonrandomized pre-post intervention study, 36 n...

Formalization of natural language metaphors is a notorious problem in artificial intelligence and other overlapping domains. It semantic vagueness that makes resistant to formulaic or algorithmic descriptions. Great effort has been invested into modeling computationally but the issue remains methodologically uncertain needs further research. This paper works on practical solution how metaphoric...

Healthcare professionals face numerous challenges in their daily work with core areas of treatment and care, but also relation to organizational changes, changes assignments, education. These entail a need for mental robustness prevent strain symptoms stress. The aim this study was examine if the health well-being healthcare can be improved via teaching training positive psychology mindfulness....