background: infertility is a stressful event that can give rise to psychological difficulties. now, a wide range of psychosocial interventions for infertile couples has been developed. objective: purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) to reduce stress, anxiety and depression of women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (art). materials...

Objective: The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on psychological aspects of Quality of Life, depression, anxiety, and stress in patients with multiple sclerosis. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest and control group design. A total of 30 members of the MS Society of Semnan City, Iran, was selected by pur...

The goals of this article are to elucidate trends and perspectives in the field of cognitive style research and to propose an integrated framework to guide future research. This is accomplished by means of a comprehensive literature review of the major advances and the theoretical and experimental problems that have accumulated over the years and by a discussion of the promising theoretical mod...

We propose a formalization of C.G. Jung's theory of personality using a four-dimensional Hilbert-space for the representation of two qubits. The first qubit relates to Jung's four psychological functions Thinking, Feeling, Sensing and iNtuition, which are represented by two groups of projection operators {T, F} and {S, N}. The operators in each group are commuting but operators of different gro...

Background in cognitive ethnomusicology. Arabic music theory can benefit from new perspectives on music understanding offered by psychological and cognitive research. In particular the perception of musical structure may be explained with the help of Gestalt theory, or other theories of music segmentation and hierarchy (for instance, Lerdahl and Jackendoff, 1983). Particular questions relate to...

xv Acknowledgements xvii 1 An introduction 1 1.1 The aim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 How can we recognize variable spatial environments? . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Interdisciplinary perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.1 Neurology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.2 Cognitive psychology . . . . . ...