Job-related burnout in information technology professionals is seen as a serious issue for organizations and individuals. While the substantial body of research on job stress and burnout can provide valuable insights into the prevention of burnout in IT as well as interventions, we argue that drawing upon this work should be done with caution. In particular, generalizability of the learnings be...

Various stimulus types have been investigated in pitch discrimination and pitch matching tasks. However, previous studies have not explored the use of recorded samples of an individual's own voice in performing these two tasks. The purpose of this study was to investigate pitch discrimination and pitch matching abilities using three stimuli conditions (participant's own voice, a neutral female ...

Language classrooms are occasionally anxiety-breeding situations. Foreign language classroom anxiety which negatively affects foreign language learning is typically associated with productive activities mainly speaking skill. To cope with the issue and overcome language learning difficulties, the present study was conducted to explore the impact of mobile-assisted language learning on enhancing...

I gave lectures entitled "Ugly Symmetry" at several conferences and many institutes during past six years. Obviously the Hargittai couple share more or less the same opinion with me. Therefore, it is my pleasure to read this interesting book In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery [2,3]. I have communicated with the first author, Istvan Hargittai, many times and bothered him with my pa...