This paper describes recent work focusing on F0 and pause features detection for two negative emotions, Anger and Fear, occuring in real-life human-human spoken dialogs. Most of the current studies do not differentiate whithin the class of negative emotions, when an automatic system should consider appropriate strategies according to different negative emotions. In this paper we consider two ty...

Objectives: Emotion regulations refer to the ability of experiencing emotions as a basic human capacity and the experience of the basic emotions happiness, anger, sadness and fear are considered as reular characteristics among nations. In school-age children, problems in socioemotional development typically shows themselves as challenging, socially disruptive paterns of behavior. The purpose of...

This article outlines a developmental approach to the study of moral emotions. Specifically, we describe our developmental model on moral emotions, one in which emotions and cognitions about morality get increasingly integrated and coordinated with development, while acknowledging inter-individual variation in developmental trajectories across the lifespan. We begin with a conceptual clarificat...

The current work examines the phenomenon of Virtual Interpersonal Touch (VIT), people touching one another via force-feedback haptic devices. As collaborative virtual environments become utilized more effectively, it is only natural that interactants will have the ability to touch one another. In the current work, we used relatively basic devices to begin to explore the expression of emotion th...

Organizations seem to be split on their policies governing social networking sites (SNSs) in the workplace. Recent surveys indicated that while 54% of organizations currently ban SNSs (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) at work (Lenhart 2009) 84% of organizations will be evaluating the use of SNSs at work in the next 24 months (Gould 2009). As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impl...

We appreciate Agnes Moors’s (this issue) history of the debates among classical and constructionist emotion researchers and her attempt at integration. We have been pursuing an alternative perspective that emerges from evolutionary psychology, which integrates many aspects of the theories she discusses but embraces a universalism that Moors rejects. An adaptationist approach to the emotions tak...

OBJECTIVES Past studies have demonstrated that older adults used less emotional suppression to regulate their emotions than did younger adults, but the effectiveness of using this emotion regulatory strategy on psychosocial well-being across age remains largely unexplored. The present study adopted an experience-sampling method to examine whether the impacts of momentary employment of emotional...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...