Abstract One essential prerequisite for successful agile retrospective sessions is to accomplish a psychologically safe environment. Creating environment the co-located team challenging. Further, it becomes more demanding with online teams. Literature sheds little light on creating conducting retrospectives. Our study aims at addressing this knowledge gap and asks research question: how does us...

Planning is a subject of interest to the Artificial Intelligence community. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, and simulated annealing are heuristic search methods often used to solve complex optimization problems. In this paper, we have proposed a novel intelligence paradigm to solve planning problems. This paper extends the Artificial Immune System (AIS) approach by proposing a new methodol...

For the purpose of selecting items in a test, this study presented a viewpoint of psychologically optimal difficulty level, as well as measurement efficiency, of items. A paper-and-pencil test (P & P) composed of hard, moderate and easy subtests was administered to 298 students at a university. A computerized adaptive test (CAT) was also administered to 79 students. The items of both tests were...

OBJECTIVES To describe the development, implementation, and preliminary outcome of the Pain-Disability Prevention (PDP) Program. The PDP Program is a 10-week cognitive-behavioral intervention program that aims to increase daily involvement in goal-directed activity and minimize psychological barriers to activity involvement after occupational injury. Workers' Compensation Board claimants with s...

We present an implementation of a model of very early sensory-motor development, guided by results from developmental psychology. Behavioral acquisition and growth is demonstrated through constraintlifting mechanisms initiated by global state variables. The results show how staged competence can be shaped by qualitative behavior changes produced by anatomical, computational and maturational con...

In this paper, a psychologically-inspired model for an Iterative Prisoner’s dilemma (IPD) agent is proposed. This model is inspired by the “psychic apparatus” theory that was developed by Sigmund Freud in 1940. The model captures an agent with a true “character” by concurrently supporting the three constructs of personality: the Super-Ego, which represents the ideal part of the agent that alway...

Five studies established that normal narcissism is correlated with good psychological health. Specifically, narcissism is (a) inversely related to daily sadness and dispositional depression, (b) inversely related to daily and dispositional loneliness, (c) positively related to daily and dispositional subjective well-being as well as couple well-being, (d) inversely related to daily anxiety, and...

Gill advocated using goal-based utility functions versus the standard commodity-based neoclassical utility function. He argued that a goal-based utility function would resolve many observed inconsistencies between what economics predicts and the behavior observed in psychological experiments. To support Gill’s argument, this paper focuses on the standard extension of neoclassical utility to gam...