This paper investigates whether an individual’s emotional profile affects their insurance decision making. We explore how the emotional reaction in conditions of ambiguity and the fear of the unknown affect insurance choices. We conducted psychophysiological experiments on a sample of 645 individuals and find evidence that these emotional variables offer contributions by increasing the predicti...

introduction: previous studies have shown that various factors such as emotional stress can trigger of mi in susceptible persons. more studies are needed to evaluate the characteristics of patients regarding to emotional stress, heavy work, routine activity, infection or rest before occurrence of mi. methods: we studied 608 consecutive hospitalized in ccus from may 2000 to october 2001. for pat...

This paper presents preliminary results on expressive performance in the human tenor voice. This work investigates how professional opera singers manipulate sound properties such as timing, amplitude, and pitch in order to produce expressive performances. We also consider the contribution of features of prosody in the artistic delivery of an operatic aria. Our approach is based on applying mach...

Currently, state of the art virtual agents lack the ability to display emotion as seen in actual humans, or even in hand-animated characters. One reason for the emotional inexpressiveness of virtual agents is the lack of emotionally expressive gaze manner. For virtual agents to express emotion that observers can empathize with, they need to generate gaze including eye, head, and torso movement ...

The authors examined whether European Americans (EA) several generations removed from their ancestors varied as a function of their countries of origin by comparing the emotional facial expressions of EA originally from Scandinavian countries (EA-S), who value emotional control, and those from Ireland (EA-I), who value emotional expression. EA-S were less expressive than EA-I while reliving var...

emotional intelligence (ei) refers how well an individual’s handle herself or himself and others instead of their technical skills to solve the problem. creativity makes the individual to think deeply and manage their emotions while applying new knowledge in their organization. a positive attitude toward training and working environment can develop the employee’s emotional intelligence and crea...

Gaze is an extremely powerful expressive signal that is used for many purposes, from expressing emotion to regulating human interaction. The use of gaze as a signal has been exploited to strong effect in hand-animated characters, greatly enhancing the believability of the character’s simulated life. However, virtual humans animated in real-time have been less successful at using expressive gaze...

Expressive aprosodia is an impaired ability to change one's voice to express common emotions such as joy, anger, and sadness. Individuals with aprosodia speak in a flat, unemotional voice that often results in miscommunicated emotional messages. This study investigated two conceptually based treatments for expressive aprosodia: imitative treatment and cognitive-linguistic treatment. Five women ...