After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present the mental ingredients of trust: its specific beliefs and goals, with special attention to evaluations and expectations. We show the relation between trust and the mental background of delegation. We explain why trust i...

Abstract Following the levels of intentionality and semiosis distinguished by Semiotic Hierarchy (a layered model semiosis/intentionality), distinction between original agency (without use artefacts) enhanced (the prosthetic incorporation artefacts), we propose a an hierarchy, consisting six layers. Consistent with phenomenological orientation cognitive semiotics, central claim is that subjecti...

A cognitive model of panic is described. Within this model panic attacks arc said to result from the catastrophic misinterpretation of certain bodily sensations. The sensations which are misinterpreted are mainly those involved in normal anxiety responses (e.g. palpitations, breathlessness. dizziness etc.) but also include some other sensations. The catastrophic misinterpretation involves perce...

The key issue in the design of today’s living spaces is the cognitive and socio psychological gap towards individual and social needs of today's human. Place attachment as a quality of urban space has a kind of product-oriented output and requires careful attention to the stages and process of attachment. In the analysis of this process, familiarity with cognitive structures and novel res...

In the present paper, opposites are examined and discussed, and a way of describing them from a cognitive perspective is suggested. Related research disagrees upon whether opposites are symmetrical, and whether concepts should be integrated in the relation of opposites. The Swedish opposites levande 'alive' and död 'dead' have been studied thoroughly in order to provide empirical data. Argument...

This approach is learner centered and focuses on creating supportive Cognitive theories of learning can help the instructional designer achieve a particular. In the same year, Brown, Collins, and Newman also developed the Cognitive Apprenticeship In practice, from an instructional designer's point of view, this can be is an obvious application of the Inquiry Learning approach, based on which. P...