background: depression is one of the most common psychiatry disorders. the most common treatments for this disorder are pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. due to the side effects and expensiveness of these methods, developing the non-drug treatments seems to be necessary. this study tries to determine the effect of eight weeks of aerobic exercises on depression, frequency of negative automatic ...

objective: knowing about cognitive dissonance aspects and psychological components will be helpful not only in psychological field but also in commercial and political areas. therefore the aim of this study was evaluation of relation between personality and physiological components of cognitive dissonance.   method: 130 students of elmi-karbordi university of safadasht were invited and they wer...

the aim of this study was to determine the role of attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescents' social anxiety. 430 iranian high school students (200 boys and 230 girls) were selected by multistage cluster sampling method from high schools in isfahan city and completed a battery of scales including attachment styles scale (collins and read, 1990), cognitive...

Today, organisations that seek a competitive advantage are adopting virtual infrastructures that share and manage computing resources. The trend is toward implementing collaborating applications supported by web services technology. In order to enable secure interoperation between participants of these environments, trust is an important requirement to address. Current solutions to trust betwee...

This paper explores individual cognitive mechanisms of knowledge-sharing (KS) motivation and intends to provide more effective measures to judge and influence individual inclinations toward KS in a crosscultural context. First, it investigates four cognitive processes based on an individual’s commitment toward KS, and studies through these processes how an individual’s intrinsic motivation deri...

objective: the present study aimed at examining the effect of multidimensional motivation interventions based on martin's model on cognitive and behavioral components of motivation. methods: the research design was prospective with pretest, posttest, and follow-up, and 2 experimental groups. in this study, 90 students (45 participants in the experimental group and 45 in the control group) const...

This study investigated the kinds of knowledge necessary to learn an important troubleshooting strategy, elimination. A total of 50 college-level students searched for the source of failures in simple digital networks. Production system modelling suggested that students using a common but simpler backtracking strategy would learn the more advanced elimination strategy if they applied certain do...