this article deals with the relationship existing between the emotional aspect and decision-making processes. more specifically, it examines the links between emotional intelligence, decision biases and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms. the primary purposes of this article are to: consider emotional intelligence like new research ideas that make important contributions to society; off...

The present study was set out to evaluate the cognitive costs of two major emotion regulation strategies under conditions of increased challenge. Previous studies have established that cognitive reappraisal (construing an emotional event in nonemotional terms) has no cognitive costs. However, in all of these studies, reappraisal was initiated at the emotional situation onset, before emotional r...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) are embarking on a major new initiative to understand issues related to cognitive and emotional health in U.S. adult populations – particularly how cognitive and emotional/mental health can be maintained and enhanced as people grow older....

Empathy allows us to simulate others' affective and cognitive mental states internally, and it has been proposed that the mirroring or motor representation systems play a key role in such simulation. As emotions are related to important adaptive events linked with benefit or danger, simulating others' emotional states might constitute of a special case of empathy. In this functional magnetic re...

The ANR project EmotiRob aims at conceiving and realizing a companion robot which interacts emotionally with fragile children. However, the project MAPH which is an extension of EmotiRob tries to extend the cognitive abilities of the robot to implement a linguistic interaction with the child. For this, we studied a children corpus and got semantic links that could exist between each pair of wor...