Considering social and emotional competence in learning, emotion awareness aims to detect the emotions that students show during their learning interactions and make these emotions explicit to them. Being aware of their emotions, students become more conscious of their situation, what may prompt them to behavioral change. The main goal of this work is to analyze the effects of emotion awareness...

Symmetry detection is a key part of human perception. One incompletely understood aspect of symmetry detection concerns orientation effects. The best-known orientation effect is the preference for vertical symmetry, where symmetry around a vertical axis is detected more quickly and accurately than symmetry at other orientations. Current symmetry detection models have difficulty explaining this ...

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), typically measured by variation in the differences between right and left sides of bilateral traits, is commonly used to assess developmental instability (DI) in populations. A previous quantitative trait locus (QTL) investigation using an F2 intercross mouse population found little evidence of individual loci affecting FA in mandible size, but an abundance of epista...

There is inconclusive evidence whether practicing tasks with computer agents improves people’s performance on these tasks. This paper studies this question empirically using extensive experiments involving bilateral negotiation and threeplayer coordination tasks played by hundreds of human subjects. We used different training methods for subjects, including practice interactions with other huma...

We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a finitelyrepeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, allowing players to endogenously select interaction durations. Consistent with prior research, longer interactions facilita...

Regional anaesthesia and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy are both clinical procedures which require profound theoretical knowledge and specific motor skills for successful accomplishment. As training opportunities are rare and can be harmful for patients, we started the development of two virtual reality-based surgical training simulators. While visualization is an important topic on its own...

Available grid technologies like the Globus Toolkit make possible for one to run a parallel application on resources distributed across several administrative domains. Most grid computing users, however, don’t have access to more than a handful of resources onto which they can use this technologies. This happens mainly because gaining access to resources still depends on personal negotiations b...

People are reciprocal if they reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. In this paper we present a formal theory of reciprocity. It takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by its underlying intention. The theory is in line with the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental games, such as the ultimatum game, the gift...

In the absence of losses the phase of a Bose-Einstein condensate undergoes collapses and revivals in time due to elastic atomic interactions. As experiments necessarily involve inelastic collisions, we develop a model to describe the phase dynamics of the condensates in presence of collisional losses. We find that a few inelastic processes are sufficient to damp the revivals of the phase. For t...

We propose an allocation rule that takes into account the importance of players and their links. Since a network describes the interaction structure between agents, our allocation rule covers both bilateral and multilateral interactions. We provide a characterization of this rule in terms of well known axioms and compare it to other allocation rules in the literature. JEL classifications: A14; ...