Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) has been widely acknowledged as an effective alternative for in vivo (iVET). So far, previous research focused on long- and short-term effectiveness comparisons to iVET, whereas the impact of design choices is understudied. Hence, present study focuses several types anxiety cues manipulation anxiety. More specifically, five interoceptive (i.e., “fake” bod...

Recent studies have reported that in normal healthy individuals, the perception of illusory sensations in one modality can be induced by the presentation of a stimulus in another modality. These illusory sensations may arise from the activation of a tactile representation in memory induced by the non-target stimulus, in a process mirroring that thought to be responsible for many forms of medica...

In a recent trend in web communication, news outlets and blog platforms allow readers to express opinions about what they have read by choosing an associated feeling, or sentiment expression. This emerging trend, fitting between liking and full text comments, has not still found the popularity it should. The thesis of this paper is that this is also due to the way the sentiment choice is presen...

Everyone experiences bereavement but few give prior thought to it. Knowing something about the possible reactions and repercussions of bereavement is the best preparation for it.