This study reports an intensive, exploratory study of a single, protracted conflictual interaction involving all four members of a family. Within the larger interaction, there were four subinteractions. Because of space limitations, only the central conflictual subinteraction will be described. This interaction involved three of the four family members: the father and two daughters. The two chi...

Emotions are a ubiquitous component of motivation and learning. We have developed an affective behavior model for intelligent tutoring systems that considers both the affective and knowledge state of the student to generate tutorial actions. The affective behavior model (ABM) was designed based on teachers’ expertise obtained through interviews. It relies on a dynamic decision network with a ut...

A model of affect and learning for intelligent tutoring systems is proposed. The model considers both how a student feels and what a student knows, and then customizes how instruction is presented and how learning and performance are reinforced. The model was designed based on teachers’ expertise, which was obtained through interviews and interaction with an educational game on number factoriza...

With the rapid influx of women in organizations, more specifically in the Indian context, “gender” becomes an important construct in the study of upward influence strategies, by which the member is able to influence the attitude, perceptions and behavior of the leader in a desired manner. In this study, we made an attempt to understand gender differences in terms of use of upward influence stra...

Despite the salience of information technology investments in many firms, industry and firm-specific variations exist in the efficient use of information technology. Recent evidence suggests that industries vary in terms of how they use information technology (IT) and that the business benefits that firms receive from IT are strongly influenced by industry factors. This research examines some o...

We describe an affective behavior model (ABM) for intelligent tutoring systems. The model is a Dynamic Decision Network that selects tutorial actions based on both the current affective and pedagogical state of a student, as well as on the assessment of the expected effect of each available action on the student. We integrated the ABM with an educational game to learn number factorization, and ...

Four studies were conducted to develop and validate a measure of individual differences in attitudes towards gossip (ATG). In Study 1, exploratory factor analyses of responses to a pool of ATG items identified two factors reflecting attitudes about gossip s Social Value (SV) and Moral Value (MV), which provided the basis for constructing a 12-item ATG scale. In Study 2, the SV and MV factors we...