We make the case for the possible integration of affect experience induced via embodiment techniques with CBT for the treatment of emotional disorders in clinical settings. Theoretically we propose a possible integration of cognitive behavioural theory, neuroscience, embodied cognition and important processes of client change outcomes such as the therapeutic alliance to enhance client outcomes....

A newly discovered, early nineteenth-century lithograph by John Lewis Marks (b. ca. 1795-1796, d. ca. 1857-1861), entitled A Left Handed Compliment, is described. In this humorous print a young boy is using his left hand to draw the face of an elderly woman who is his grandmother, and she is shocked at the boy's suggestion that he will, “just see if I can't touch off your old Phizog left handed...

To predict volume of distribution at steady-state (V(ss)), empirical (e.g., allometry) and mechanistic (using physicochemical property data and plasma protein binding) methods have been used. None of these approaches has been able to predict V(ss) accurately for the total compliment of a wide range of drugs. Therefore, alternative approaches would be of value. This study evaluates the utility o...

During social interactions, listeners weigh the importance of linguistic and extra-linguistic speech cues (prosody) to infer the true intentions of the speaker in reference to what is actually said. In this study, we investigated what brain processes allow listeners to detect when a spoken compliment is meant to be sincere (true compliment) or not ("white lie"). Electroencephalograms of 29 part...

The aim of the present article is to probe the functions of the cultural schema of Ta’ne (sarcasm) in Persian. Results from 100 recorded instantiations of Ta’ne accumulated through ethnographic approach indicated that it served different functions including complaint, criticism, insult, contempt, humor, and compliment. The results were then discussed with reference to the cultural differences i...

Researching the speech acts performed between Arabic and English speakers is one of popular trends in pragmatic research. However, majority previous studies have only obtained data from native speakers, or natives who are learning as a foreign language. This study intends to fill research gap comparing giving praise responding made by students studying both their languages. descriptive used two...

pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. the importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that american...

A new divide-and-conquer technique for disparity estimation is proposed in this paper. This technique performs feature matching recursively, starting with the strongest feature point in the left scanline. Once the rst matching pair is established, the ordering constraint in disparity estimation allows the original intra-scanline matching problem to be divided into two smaller subproblems. Each ...

The identiication of aspects of cepstral features that contain a high degree of speaker speciicity potentially can simplify the task of speaker recognition. The identiication process can be performed both temporally and cepstrally. The temporal analysis determines which phonemes or utterances exhibit the highest degree of speaker speciicity, while the cepstral analysis examines individual cepst...