Background & Aims: Trichotillomania (TTM) is an unknown disorder and resistant to treatment. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the new metacognitive-cognitive-behavioral model for trichotillomania. Methods: The present study was a description and correlation study. In this study, 635 participants (304 male and 331 female) were selected. The participants completed the Massach...

One of the central motivations for developing qualitative reasoning was the investigation of a “naïve physics“, with the aim to describe the physical world with human “everyday” concepts. This implies the idea that a formal description alone is not sufficient – it should take into account relevant findings from Cognitive Science about human concepts. In this article we (i) present main findings...

This paper is aimed at furthering discussions about the properties which computational cognitive models of attentional control should have if they are meant to be applied in interactive human-computer systems, namely for predicting human attention shifts across control levels. The paper discusses a number of issues of attentional control and implications that follow for computational modeling. ...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the modelling of different processes that could account for the link between psychopathology, cognitive social and demographic risk factors and enacting assault by husband. method: this article reports a test using data on 230 males who participated in a family violence survey study. the sample was selected by a multiclustral samplin...

We present a task-independent learning procedure which produces gradual performance improvement through experience on a perceptual-motor ask. It utilizes a data structure that represents a strategy for performing the task. This learning procedure is a direct result of the constraints that occur when realistic perceptual and motor mechanisms (EPIC) are mated to a learning cognitive modeling arch...

Gaming the system, a behavior where students disengage from a learning environment and attempt to succeed by exploiting properties of the system, has been shown to be associated with lower learning. Machine learned and knowledge engineered models have been created to identify gaming behaviors, but few efforts have been made to precisely identify how experts code gaming behaviors. In this paper,...

Although the Cognitive Tutor: Algebra-1 is effective at increasing individual learning, it lacks support for collaboration between students. We intend to explore the potential benefits of integrating a mutual peer tutoring script with the cognitive tutors, such that students take turns tutoring each other on problem-solving tasks, rather than being tutored directly by the computer. The script i...

In this short paper, we argue that there are two conflicting agendas at play in the design of cognitive architectures. One is principled: to create a model of cognition and gain an understanding of cognitive processes. The other is practical: to build useful systems that have a cognitive ability and thereby provide robust adaptive behaviour that can anticipate events and the need for action. Th...

The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view, just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the basic beliefs) on which the final decision to trust or not is taken. In this paper we show a first implementation and advance of the socio-cognitive model of trust developed in [1, 2] using the so-called Fuzzy Cogn...