This study focuses on the restorative effects of immersive virtual reality (VR) forest experiences elderly people during COVID-19 lockdown. A field experiment with 63 participants was conducted in an care institution China. The results showed that a five-minute VR experience three minutes subsequent reliving can bring immediate psychological improvements (i.e., increased positive affect, decrea...

Political discussion is a key mechanism for the development of reasoned opinions and political knowledge, but online has been characterized as uncivil, intolerant, and/or ideologically homogeneous, which detrimental to this development. In paper, we examine role personality in various forms talk—online offline—as well like-minded discussion. Based on 2017 survey conducted United Kingdom, States...

Abstract Drawing on social cognitive theory (SCT), this study examines the effects of employee resilience, through well-being, job productivity, and relational satisfaction among extraverted versus introverted workers in Croatia, Thailand, United States during early period coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Participants included 832 working adults from various industries. Moderated mediation an...

A new concept of formality of linguistic expressions is introduced and argued to be the most important dimension of variation between styles or registers. Formality is subdivided into "deep" formality and "surface" formality. Deep formality is defined as avoidance of ambiguity by minimizing the context-dependence and fuzziness of expressions. This is achieved by explicit and precise description...

Leaders of online communities are today becoming key players in social media sites like Facebook. Responsible for the community's participation rules, limits and members’ identities, these leaders represent an important population on which to focus. This paper compares 94 Facebook community other Internet users (N=188) order identify differences among them with respect five major personality tr...

This study aims to describe students' critical thinking skills based on introverted personality types in solving spatial problems fifth grade classroom building at SD Hartaco Indah Makassar. research uses descriptive qualitative. Data were collected through tests, questionnaires, interviews, observations, and documentation. data analysis techniques, which consist of stages collection, reduction...

Ansa-cyclodextrins were obtained in high yields by reaction of sodium sulfide with A,B-di- or A,B,D,E-tetramesylated alpha-CD precursors; the resulting thiocavitands are suitable for forming nanotubular molecules, as well as for hosting metal-organic fragments.

We investigated the performance on a selective attention task in two groups of 8to 12-year-old healthy children being characterized as extraverted and introverted, respectively. During task performance EEG-activity was recorded to investigate differential effects on a specific selection-related potential, the N2b. Cardiac activity was recorded continuously before, during and after task performa...