A cognitive-behavioural model of depersonalisation disorder (DPD) suggests that catastrophic attributions and appraisals, and increased attention to symptoms, play important roles in the development and maintenance of the disorder. Empirical testing of this model was investigated in three groups: 25 patients with DPD, 21 patients with anxiety (obsessive-compulsive or panic disorder), and 22 psy...

Extensive research among adults supports the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat, which describes relationships among stress appraisals, physiological stress reactivity, and performance; however, no previous studies have examined these relationships in adolescents. Perceptions of stressors as well as physiological reactivity to stress increase during adolescence, highlighting th...

The literature on attitudes toward objects includes seminal research threat appraisals indicating that individuals locate an object in a multidimensional appraisal space defined by the object's perceived degree of being good or bad, weak strong, and passive active. We advance this three ways. First, we generalize information integration with inclusion other individuals’ displayed appraisals, po...

Creativity, or the generation of novel and useful ideas products, is widely viewed as cornerstone organizational innovation success. However, high pressure to be creative may have mixed implications for employee creativity. In this article, we first systematically conceptualize nature concept performance pressure. Next, building on transactional stress theory, investigate (a) how influences cre...

We demonstrate molecular similarity to be a surprisingly effective metric for proposing and ranking one-step retrosynthetic disconnections based on analogy to precedent reactions. The developed approach mimics the retrosynthetic strategy defined implicitly by a corpus of known reactions without the need to encode any chemical knowledge. Using 40 000 reactions from the patent literature as a kno...

In this paper, we present a framework for an expressive virtual storyteller for children. Our virtual storyteller displays facial expressions of appraisals related to story events. The facial expressions are animated jointly with deictic gestures towards graphical elements representing story events. We describe a preliminary study that we conducted with 23 children. We discuss the impact of fac...

Based on appraisal theory (Lazarus 1991, 1999), this study examined the degree to which primary and secondary cognitive appraisals of hurtful messages predict the amount of hurt individuals feel, and the coping behaviors they enact. This study presents a significant step forward in its operationalization of both primary and secondary appraisal variables by treating hurt as an outcome, rather th...

The successful commercialization of any new product depends to a degree on the ability of a firm to match its supply to market demand. In an emerging industry where products have little similarity with the products in existing industries, it is very hard to predict demand patterns. In this paper, we will develop a general mathematical model for providing decision support for the design of suppl...