In the present issue we discuss a theoretical model for processing of emotional speech during text analysis and synthesis. The model is developed for description of speech influence in affective mass media texts and also applies to several other types of emotional communication, including conflict, complaint and speech aggression. The model follows H-CogAff architecture of cognitive models and ...

This article is about the institutional collaboration in the management structure of a city-region. To achieve this purpose, corporate limits of Qazvin are studied as the city is becoming a region.  The possible institutional cooperative in the centralist governmental structure is planned based on the new regionalism theory and its governance pattern, new institutionalism theory and its emphas...

Given their background as moral philosophers, classical economists were interested in passions and emotions which govern human nature. This interest in emotions had persisted in economic theory until the marginal revolution. The aim of developing a formal body of theory based on mechanical laws necessitated the adoption of a more stylized concept of utility, i.e. ordinal utility. Formal modelli...

Agent-based modeling has been criticized for its apparent lack of establishing causality of social phenomena. However, we demonstrate that when coupled with evolutionary computation techniques, agent-based models can be used to evolve plausible agent behaviors that are able to recreate patterns observed in real-world data, from which valuable insights into candidate explanations of the macro-ph...

University of California, San Diego Buunk, Angleitner, Oubaid and Buss (this issue) offer even more evidence for our contention that responses to infidelity are based on a rational interpretation of the available evidence. They find that in cultures with less strict sanctions against extramarital sex than in the United States, people are relatively less troubled by sexual infidelity compared w...

Buunk, Angleitner, Oubaid and Buss (this issue) offer even more evidence for our contention that responses to infidelity are based on a rational interpretation of the available evidence. They find that in cultures with less strict sanctions against extramarital sex than in the United States, people are relatively less troubled by sexual infidelity compared with emotional infidelity. The evoluti...