BackgroundAlthough following a suitable sports program with mild intensity promoted the health of mother's who had healthy pregnancy and caused no harm to the growing fetus; pregnant women usually choose to live a sedentary life. This study was conducted to determine the psychological factors related to physical activity in pregnant women. Materials and MethodsThis descriptive, correlational an...

The right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ) is thought to be closely related to theory of mind (ToM) and cognitive empathy. In the present study, we investigated whether these socio-cognitive abilities could be modulated with non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the rTPJ. Participants received anodal (excitatory), cathodal (inhibitory), or sham stimulation before perfor...

Personality is a cognitive-affective processing system, which, according to the socio-cognitive theory, creates four dimensions. They are reflected in skills, beliefs, standards and goals of individual, which consistent patterns behaviour.
 Self-efficacy judgments self-patterns determine choice persistence achieving them. On other hand, emotions preceding accompanying achievement affect co...

Electronic workflow facilitates transactions between systems and enterprises. In this paper we employ socio-cognitive theory and technologies in the context of an agent-based workflow engine to facilitate partner selection and build trust among electronic workflow participants. These elements form useful and effective additions to the workflow context, by capturing business policy aspects. We p...

Primates, human and non-human alike, have large brains with large neocortices. It has been suggested that primates owe their large brains to the increased social demands of large groups. Within the last 40 years, much research has been done on the socio-cognitive abilities of primates, and since Premack & Woodruff (1978) first coined the term “theory of mind”, many laboratory experiments have b...

This paper is an invitation to examine a class of socio-technical systems— artificial socio-cognitive (ASCS)—whose distinctive nature is that they may involve humans as well as artificial agents who interact in a regulated milieu. We propose a characterization of these ASCS and build on that characterization to describe how these systems evolve.

Whereas the cognitive processes and effects of collaborative learning have been intensively studied within the Learning Sciences, little attention has been paid to the way motivational and emotional factors may affect them. In this symposium, we present recent findings from three independent lines of research that focus on the way motivation and affect shape the interaction between peer learner...

In this paper we argue for a human-in-the-loop approach to the study of situation awareness in computer defence analysis (CDA). The cognitive phenomenon of situation awareness (SA) has received significant attention in cybersecurity/CDA research. Yet little of this work has attended to the cognitive aspects of situation awareness in the CDA context; instead, the human operator has been treated ...

Data from three experiments provide the first evidence that children, at least as young as age two, are vigilant of others’ nonverbal cues to credibility, and flexibly use these cues to facilitate learning. Experiment 1 revealed that 2and 3-year-olds prefer to learn about objects from someone who appears, through non-verbal cues, to be confident in performing actions on those objects than from ...

CSCL includes a wide range of scenarios that integrate individual and collaborative learning. Scripts have repeatedly proven useful for guiding learners to engage in specific roles and activities in CSCL environments. The effective mechanisms of scripts in stimulating cognitive and collaborative processes, however, are not yet well understood. Moreover, scripts have been shown to be somewhat in...