Humans have the fascinating capacity to understand, and anticipate the actions of other humans in the same space, without requiring verbal communication. This ”intention reading” capacity is underpinned by a common motor-repertoire that is shared by all humans, and afforded by a subtle coordination of eye-head-arm movements that encodes the cues and signals that will ultimately be deciphered by...

Sometimes it is easy to do the right thing. But often, people act morally only after overcoming competing immoral desires. How does learning about someone's inner moral conflict influence children's and adults' moral judgments about that person? Across four studies, we discovered a striking developmental difference: When the outcome is held constant, 3- to 8-year-old children judge someone who ...

Appearance has been shown to affect the way humans behave, specifically through the self-fulfilling prophecy effect. The purpose of this study was to find a link among sociometric status, relational aggression and facial structure. A sample of seventh and eleventh grade participants assessed their peers for dominance, popularity, relational aggression and prosocial behavior. College participant...

Book with the program. The NES2012 Proceedings has a separate ISBN number stated in a separate ISBN document. The NES conferences have a long tradition of serving as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners. The papers included in the proceedings are peerreviewed scientific and practitioners’ papers, reflecting the variety of ergonomics. The scientific papers from the research context,...

In a multi-agent system with self-interested agents, cooperation has to be achieved though communication and negotiation. The paper presents a model and associated behavior of self-interested agents that are endowed, besides the widely accepted beliefs-desires-intentions notions, with goals, preferences, obligations, and norms. The behavior of the agents is mainly motivated by the gain they may...

Aspirations, along with attainments, play an important role in shaping wellbeing. Early in adult life women are more likely than men to fulfill their material goods and family life aspirations; their satisfaction in these domains is correspondingly higher; and so too is their overall happiness. Material goods aspirations refer here to desires for a number of big-ticket consumer goods, such as a...

This study investigates English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ needs and desires with regard to the in-service training courses (ITCs) programs in Marand, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. 21 EFL teachers at both junior (N=10) and senior high schools (N=11) participated in this study. The data concerning the participants’ mentioned needs and desires were gathered by means of a structured i...

Ye-Ryoung Lee,1 Myoung-Sun Heo,1 Jae-Hoon Choi,1 Tout T. Wang,1,2 Caleb A. Christensen,1 Timur M. Rvachov,1 and Wolfgang Ketterle1 1MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambrid...