Background: Adolescence is one of the most important periods of life for all people. This is a transition period from childhood to adulthood, through which individuals should learn to make the right decisions and apply the life skills. This study aimed to explain the life skills' experiences of 12-14 year-old female adolescen...

Background: Explaining the risk factors of waterpipe smoking (WS) is very necessary in prevention programs. The aim of this study was determining the risk factors and the prevalence of WS in adolescents based on the social cognitive theory (SCT). Materials and Methods: </...

Integrating social statics and dynamics into a single mathematical theory is one of the hard problems that could cross-fertilize AI and cognitive science. How perception, language and action are situated by context and grounded in reality remains one of the grand challenges of AI and cognitive science (see the special issue of Artificial Intelligence, 2005, 167). There are claims that it has be...

Patients suffering from schizophrenia show impaired emotional and social behavior, such as misinterpretation of social situations and lack of theory of mind. However, there is conflicting evidence regarding their ability to perform on theory of mind tasks. Based on previous findings with patients suffering from prefrontal damage, the present study suggests that the behavioral deficit of schizop...

This paper introduces Repage, a computational system that adopts a cognitive theory of reputation. We propose a fundamental difference between image and reputation, which suggests a way out from the paradox of sociality, i.e. the trade-off between agents' autonomy and their need to adapt to social environment. On one hand, agents are autonomous if they select partners based on their social eval...

Humans depend massively on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. We claim that humans have a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigilance to ensure that communication remains advantageous despite this risk. Here we outline this claim and consider some of the ways in which epistemic vigilance works in mental ...

This paper presents a working memory based model of attention in presence, in which presence depends on the allocation of cognitive resources to process an environment. In the model, media decoders (cognitive modules specialized in decoding particular media) extract data about the environment in an abstracted form. In order for presence to occur, a certain amount of working memory is required f...

Objective: the main objective of this study is to consider Theory of Mind (ToM), i.e. the ability to perceive other people in terms of thinking, believing and emotions, as a target for effective rehabilitative intervention, using Emotion and ToM Imitation Training (ETIT), aimed at improving social cognition and social functioning in schizophrenia. ToM impairment is a key feature of schizophreni...

Social cognition consists of several skills which allow us to interact with other humans. These skills include social stimuli processing, drawing inferences about others' mental states, and engaging in social interactions. In recent years, there has been growing evidence of social cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia. Apparently, these impairments are separable from general neur...