The importance of emotional aspect in everyday decision is demonstrated by the copious psychological literature about the topic. Emotions are present in every action that we undertake, sure enough when we choose a song to listen we can observe that our decision is influenced by the affective state felt in that moment. A consequence of this irrational process is the diversity of choices that we ...

history of language teaching methodologies is characterized by variety of syllabuses equal to the number of teaching methods. following the ups and downs in teaching methods, syllabuses have had the same destiny. in line with the humanistic trend in this arena, whole learner involvement received prime significance to the extent that many favor negotiated syllabus in language teaching and lea...

This study examined the influence of affect on interpersonal relationships in a dyadic communication context. The combination of speakers' affective states was considered, as compared to previous studies which considered only the individual's affective state. The independent variables, in a between-subjects design, were affective condition (positive vs. negative) and affective combination (simi...

Several factors like pupils' characteristics, school conditions and family context have been pointed out in the literature as being linked to academic achievement. Regarding the latter, family socio-economic status and parental support have been identified as determining variables on success at school. The current study analyses the influence of family support on the achievement of school child...

Introduction Optimal community reintegration is an integral part of the clinical management of patients with mild traumatic brain injury. Background/Objective We sought the contribution and inter-relation of such variables as balance, executive function, and affective regulation to the community reintegration of veterans with mTBI. Methods We examined the statistical relationship among the ...

This study examined the association among three conceptualizations of work-related rumination (affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, and detachment) with sleep quality and work-related fatigue. It was hypothesized that affective rumination and poor sleep quality would be associated with increased fatigue and that problem-solving pondering and detachment would be associated with decre...

Learning to program is notoriously difficult. In order to understand predictors of success and, when possible, improve the course design of the introductory pprogramming course to increase the likelyhood of success, we study a number of factors that potentially indicate programming aptitude. We have studied the influence of emotional and social factors on students’ learning outcome. Emotional h...

We are using causal modeling to analyze relationships between pedagogical intervention, students’ attitudes, affective states, perceptions and outcomes, based on the data from a math tutor, Wayang Outpost. The causal model generated gives interpretable multi level interrelationships within the data variables identifying direct and indirect effects among them. We observed that among the four aff...