Emotional-BDI agents are agents whose behaviour is guided not only by beliefs, desires and intentions, but also by the role of emotions in reasoning and decision-making. In this paper we introduce the logic EBDI for specifying Emotional-BDI agents in general and a special kind of Emotional-BDI agent under the effect of fear. The focus of this work is in the expressiveness of EBDI and on using i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine a cohort of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) by means of psycholinguistic methods in order to obtain a more subtle picture of their degree of traumatization. METHODS Twenty-eight participants were included in the Stress-Inducing Speech Task (SIST) consisting of a free association (FA) and a stress (STR) condition. Narratives were examined by m...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study examined the extent to which a specific mechanism of emotion regulation - namely, ambivalence concerning the expressiveness of German soldiers' emotions - affects the severity of PTSD symptoms after a military operation. METHODOLOGY A survey was conducted at three points in time among 66 soldiers deployed on military crisis operations. The Harvard Trauma Questionair...

Maternal expressive styles, based on a combination of positive and negative expressive patterns, were identified at two points in time and related to multiple aspects of preschool children's emotional development. Mother-child pairs from 260 families participated when the children were 3 years old, and 240 participated again at aged 4 years. Expressive styles were identified at age 3 using clus...

Body movements are crucial for emotion expression of a virtual agent. However, the perception of expressiveness of an animation has always been a subjective matter. Research in psychology has asked professional actors to perform emotional motions to study how body gestures deliver emotions [2]. In this work, we aim to design an animation system that can generate human body motions in a more sys...

OBJECTIVE The present study evaluates a questionnaire on ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, the AEQ-G18 [1], [2], with regard to its statistical parameters, the influence of socio-demographic variables, and its interrelationship with depression and quality of life. METHODS A representative German sample (1009 participants from East Germany and 1034 participants from West Germany) comp...

The aim of the present study is to explore the relationship between the form of Chinese ‘successive addition boundary tone’ [1,2] and its expressive function, and whether ‘SUccessive Addition Boundary Tones’ (SUABT) can uniquely encode pragmatic information. To this end, a perceptual experiment was conducted by attaching a successive falling tone to the F0 curve of the neutrally expressed utter...