Personality-Based Cognitive Design of Characters in Virtual Environments

2016 ◽  
pp. 124-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Saberi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Cognitive Architectures ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Deliberative Reasoning ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Different Levels

Personality-based cognitive architectures should yield consistent patterns of behaviour through personality traits that have a modulatory influence at different levels: These factors affect, on the one hand, high-level components such as ‘emotional reactions' and ‘coping behaviour', and on the other hand, low-level parameters such as the ‘speed of movements and repetition of gestures. In our hybrid cognitive architecture, a deliberative reasoning about the world (e.g. strategies and goals of the 3D character) is combined with dynamic real-time response to the environment's changes and sensors' input (e.g. emotional changes). Hybrid system copes dynamically with changes in the environment, and is complicated enough to have reasoning abilities. Designing a cognitive architecture that gives the impression of personality to 3D agents can be a tremendous help making 3D characters more engaging and successful in interactions with humans.

Psychological Features of Eschatological Expectations of Youth with Various Types of Creative Thinking

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Svitlana Serdiuk ◽  
Dmytro Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Verbal Creativity ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Different Levels

This article highlights the results of the research on psychological features of eschatological expectations of young people with different levels of creative thinking. Our study shows that 26 % of respondents believe that the End of the World will not arrive. Twenty-four per cent of respondents are skeptical about the likelihood of the Apocalypse, but they admit its possibility. Thirty-seven per cent of respondents believe that the End of Time will not come soon and the remaining 13% expect the Apocalypse very soon. Some respondents (7.5%) indicate that growth in the rate of prophecies connected with the End of the World in recent years suggests that humanity itself seeks it, while 9 % of respondents state the religious point of view in their works. Also 9 % of respondents believe that there will be no destruction of civilization or destruction of the planet but there will be a mental transition to another level of being. The existence of correlation between creative thinking and eschatological expectations was also empirically established in our study, especially in the group of respondents with a high level of verbal creativity. There is no correlation between the index of non-verbal creativity, personal religiosity and eschatological expectations in the sample. These results confirm that our study is relevant and offers great prospects for further scientific research.

scholarly journals An ecological response to ethno-nationalistic populism: grassroots environmental peacebuilding in south Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Ecological Response ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
International Boundaries

Abstract The geopolitical and geophysical realities of south Asia create a deep sense of paradox. On the one hand, territorial disputes and hyper-nationalism have resulted in some of the most militarized borders in the world. South Asia's international boundaries are subject to a range of conflicts, which includes high-level armed confrontations between India and Pakistan and low-level, yet deadly, incidents at the India–Bangladesh border. On the other hand, the region's ecology is inherently interlinked through shared rivers, glaciers and forests. South Asia's borders therefore present unique opportunities for environmental peacebuilding, as they are the epicentre of political conflicts as well as the source of transnational ecological connections. This article argues that grassroots processes of environmental peacebuilding can be used to build societal resistance to the rise of ethno-nationalistic populism in south Asia. Using interview data, the article tests concepts on pathways to environmental peacebuilding against underlying drivers of regional conflicts. The study suggests ways by which grassroots environmental initiatives on the Sundarbans forest between India and Bangladesh and the Thar desert between India and Pakistan can address the contemporary rise in nativist politics. The article contributes to existing literature by connecting theories on pathways to environmental peacebuilding to the ideational drivers of territorial and political conflicts. It adds to policy discussions by suggesting an ecological response to the contemporary rise of ethno-nationalistic populism in various regions of the world.

scholarly journals Psychological Factors of Youth Emigration Intentions: A Review of International Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Murashcenkova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
International Studies ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

The psychological factors of the emigration intentions of young people, the growth of which is observed today in various countries of the world, are analysed based on the data of numerous international studies. The scientific significance of this analysis, on the one hand, is due to the lack of Russian psychological works that systematize and popularize the relevant information, on the other hand, it is associated with the need to subsequently correlate the results of international and Russian studies in order to identify common supra-cultural and specific psychological factors that affect the emigration intentions of young people. The psychological driving forces of the emigration intentions of young people considered in international studies are diverse and correspond to different levels of personality activity (individual, interpersonal and macrosocial). They correlate with general groups of factors contributing to emigration. The factors reflecting the emerging opportunities for emigration are related to positive attitudes towards emigration in general, the consideration of emigration as a way to achieve significant goals, a low degree of attachment to the country of origin, dissatisfaction with the existing living conditions, and positive attitudes towards the country where young people intend to move to. The psychological factors associated with the availability of social support include the support they receive from their families as well as relevant interpersonal contacts they have abroad. The group of factors related to personal resources for overcoming emerging obstacles correlates with expressed career aspirations, high motivation for power and achievements, insignificant motivation for affiliation, extraversion, openness to new experience, desire for risk, change and new impressions, openness to the world and cultural differences, readiness to interaction with others, faith in other religions and nationalities, self-efficacy, ability to cope with the ambivalence of emerging emotions and feelings, a high level of education, proficiency in foreign languages, and experience of international mobility. The obtained data can be used to conduct empirical psychological studies on the driving forces of the emigration activity of young people in Russia and other countries.

The World Heritage Convention and the Law of State ResponsibilityPromises and Pitfalls

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-266
Author(s):  
Lucas Lixinski ◽  
Vassilis P Tzevelekos
Keyword(s):  
Management Practice ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

Under many UNESCO instruments there is a disconnect between the language of the treaties and the mechanics of the positive law, on the one hand, and the actuality of international heritage management practice, on the other. Specifically, existing primary norms often do not set sufficiently clear legal obligations. This chapter explores this mismatch with a focus on (concurrent) State responsibility in the context of the World Heritage program. It focuses specifically on two different levels of State involvement in heritage protection: (1) multinational heritage nominations and (2) heritage that is listed by only one State, but that is also of interest to another State. The 1972 World Heritage Convention places heritage squarely within the territorial State’s sovereignty, even if it does recognize that States have a duty to cooperate in the protection of world heritage in other States as well. The duty of cooperation is seen as eroding State sovereignty, but critics also highlight that in fact there is too much sovereign control over those allegedly sovereignty-eroding dimensions of World Heritage processes.

The Degree of Realization of Fundamental Existential Motivations as a Predictor of Procrastination in University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Viktorovna Kavun ◽  
◽  
Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Ostapchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematical Statistics ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

The problem is related to the prevalence of procrastination, including among students, on the one hand, and the lack of development of approaches to explaining the psychological mechanisms of procrastination, on the other. The article substantiates the possibility of explaining the phenomenon of procrastination in the context of resilience by referring to the categories of meaningfulness of life and existential fulfillment. The goal is to identify the features of the implementation of fundamental existential motivations by students with different levels of procrastination. Method of research. We used the Lay “General procrastination Scale” in the adaptation of Windecker, Ostanina, the” test of existential motivations “ by Shumsky, Ukolova, Osin, and Lupandina; methods of mathematical statistics (Mann-Whitney and Spearman criteria). Sample: 45 procrastinator students, 51 non-procrastinators, and 117 students with an average level of procrastination. Results. Significant differences between all groups were revealed, and there were significant correlations between the level of procrastination and the severity of existential motivations. Conclusion. It was revealed that the degree of existential fulfillment of procrastinator students differs from the other two groups. They have less money: 1) the desire to “be-in-the-world”; 2) the value attitude to life; 3) the desire to be oneself; 4) the desire for meaning. Students with an average level of procrastination, like non-procrastinators, have more realized the ability to freely be in the world and realize meaning, but less than non-procrastinators, the existential motivations “Value of life” and “self-Worth” are realized. It is proved that the theory of fundamental existential motivations can be used to explain procrastination.

scholarly journals What the children of the world demand from television. Comparative International Research between 6 countries

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Merlo-Flores
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The World ◽  
World Demand ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

This field research aims to understand the way in which the children of the world relate to television and what they expect from it, that is how they wish it to be in the future. One of the distinctive characteristics of this research is that there is no adult interference or mediation, the children respond directly to the television, which ensures that the replies are real life stories filled with emotion and imagination. The successive analysis of the material collected (more than 15.000 letters and drawings form all the countries), allow us to distinguish different levels of interpretation: on the one hand, all the elements that are common to all children regardless of cultural, geographical or economic differences of the context and on the other hand, the specific characterization of the demands on television related to region, country and geographical areas within each country. The globalization vs. localization phenomenon clearly appears in the results of this comparative research work, evident in similar expressions in the replies to many of the enquiries that the researchers have been asking for a long time, but from a perspective that integrates different theories traditionally though of as contradictory. The type of themes, values, what they like, what scares children, where we detect violence, what they would like the content to be, how they wish to participate etc, are just a few of the answers that the children provide us with their letters, drawings and emails. An extremely rigorous cuanti-cualitative method allows us to believe that we have respected what is really happening in the children's world in this time of media and images and that the message they transmit is sufficiently clear and strong as to serve us adults as a guide in the search for quality television. Esta investigación de campo pretende conocer la forma en que los niños del mundo se relacionan con la televisión y básicamente qué esperan de ella, es decir cómo querrían que fuera en el futuro. Una de las características que hacen a esta investigación diferente es que no hubo mediación adulta sino que los niños le contestan directamente a la televisión, lo que hace de las respuestas verdaderas historias de vida llenas de emotividad e imaginación. Los sucesivos análisis del material recolectado (más de 15.000 cartas y dibujos de todos los países), nos permiten distinguir diferentes niveles de interpretación: por un lado los elementos que son comunes a todos los niños sin importar las diferencias culturales, geográficas, o económicas de los diferentes contextos y por el otro la caracterización específica de las demandas que le hacen a la televisión y que tienen relación con las regiones, países y zonas geográficas dentro de cada país. El mentado fenómeno de la globalización Vs. la localización aparece con meridiana claridad en los resultados de este trabajo de investigación comparativo, respondiendo desde las mismas expresiones de los niños a muchos de los interrogantes que los investigadores nos venimos haciendo desde hace mucho tiempo, pero desde una mirada y con una perspectiva que integra diferentes teorías que tradicionalmente se han considerado contradictorias. El tipo de temáticas, los valores, aquello que no les gusta, lo que les produce temor, dónde detectan la violencia, cómo querrían que fueran los contenidos, como desean participar etc, son solo algunas de las respuestas que los niños nos dan desde sus cartas, dibujos y correos electrónicos. Una metodología cuanti-cualitativa de extrema rigurosidad nos permite pensar que se ha respetado lo que realmente sucede en el mundo de los niños en esta época mediatizada por la imagen y que el mensaje que nos transmiten es suficientemente claro y fuerte como para que nos sirva a los adultos como guía en la búsqueda de una televisión de calidad.

scholarly journals Gambaran Depresi pada ODHA Perempuan yang Tinggal di Jakarta

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-117
Author(s):  
Madyastha Aji Bhirawa
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
Disclosure Status ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

Indonesia is the one of the countries in the world with the epidemic transmission of HIV, which continues to grow. The transmission of HIV and AIDS is again related to risky of behavior and population key. In fact many couples who are contracting a partner who had behavior risk. In Indonesia the number of women who are infected increases. This indicates the susceptibility of women to HIV infection and AIDS. This descriptive study aims to discuss the depression in ODHA women who live in Jakarta. The method used is qualitative with the interviews. The respondents involved in this research were two adult female ODHA which are beginning with the age of the 21- 40 years and suffer from depression in accordance with depression in BDI-II. Data analysis revelaed the different levels of depression that women were affected from their experienced problems, the disclosure status of HIV, the stigma and discrimination, and social support. In addition, the issues of this women who affected with HIV were parenting and caring family members and they were the person who support their families. From the two respondents this study discovered that both have negative thinking to themselves, experience, and future.Depression  

scholarly journals Specific immunological areactivity formation during gestation period in pregnant sows

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Alexander Agarkov ◽  
Anatoly Dmitriev ◽  
Andrey Kvochko ◽  
Elena Grudeva ◽  
Nikolay Agarkov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intrauterine Infection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Functional Reserves ◽  
Increased Sensitivity ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Chronic Carrier ◽  
Fetal Antigens ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Increased Susceptibility

Changes in immunological reactivity to viral and bacterial antigens may cause increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. Different levels of this condition in newborn and adult animal organisms should be based on the fact that the fetus and newborn after birth first comes into contact with the antigen, while the adult body already has partial sensitization. Chronic carrier of pathogens in animals and their influence on the spread of the infectious process is an urgent problem of modern veterinary medicine. The possibility of vaccination in newborns is limited by the presence of maternal antibodies that have an immunosuppressive effect. A high level of functional reserves of the pregnant body is important in the prevention of intrauterine infection. On the one hand, infection in the prenatal period of development affects the processes of growth and development of the fetus, on the other hand, during this period, the mother's body is isoimmunized by fetal antigens, accompanied by increased sensitivity of the body with the predominant manifestation of cellular phenomena in the absence of enhanced antibody synthesis.

scholarly journals Financial Frictions and Firm Informality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (211) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Franjo ◽  
Nathalie Pouokam ◽  
Francesco Turino
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Occupational Choice ◽  
Financial Frictions ◽  
Financial Deepening ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Progressive Income Taxation ◽  
Different Levels

In this paper we build a model of occupational choice with informal production and progressive income taxation. We calibrate the model to the Brazilian economy to evaluate the impact of removing financial frictions on informality. We find that financial deepening leads to a drop in the size of the informal sector (from 37 percent to 22 percent of official GDP), to an increase in measured TFP (by 4 percent), to an increase in official GDP (by 27 percent), to a decrease in tax evasion (by 17 percent) and to an increase in fiscal revenues (by 15 percent). When assessing the response of this policy at different levels of financial development, we find a non-linear relationship between the credit-to-GDP ratio on the one hand, and either the size of the informal economy, or GDP per capita on the other hand. We test these features with cross-country data and find evidence in favor of both types of non-linearity. We also investigate changes in the income tax progressitivity as an alternative policy and find it to be more effective in countries with a medium to high level of financial markets development.

scholarly journals THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTENT OF FUGACITY AS A PLAYFULNESS / LUDIC COMPETENCE COMPONENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-104
Author(s):  
Iia Gordiienko-Mytrofanova ◽  
◽  
Serhii Sauta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Video Content ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Intellectual Level

The article purpose: to describe in specific terms and enrich the psychological structure of fugitive as a component of playfulness / ludic competence on the basis of theoretical, methodological and empirical research. The study results has allowed us to make the following conclusions: 1) based on the analysed using of the “fugue” word in the scientific discourses in different fields, we have assumed that “fugue” was used by the Japanese colleagues for one of the of playfulness scales as a paronym of “fugitive”; 2) by generalization of dictionary definitions, we have determined the need to replace the term “fugue” as a component of playfulness with “fugitive”; 3) the distinguished and described levels of playfulness in examined literature, video content and cases allowed us to rethink the content of fugitive and to articulate such a component as the ability to “acquire” a new identity through simulation of feigned states; 4) an “acquired” new identity determines the genre specification of “Holy Fool” ludic position: on the one hand, the variability of its cognitive, affective, behavioural manifestations (in general) and verbal and non-verbal characteristics (in particular), and on the other hand, the stereotyped behaviour imitating the “symptoms” of feigned states; 5) the criteria for the development of fugitive can be: a high level of playfulness, tolerance for uncertainty, openness to new experience, resistance to shame, creativity, the ability for self-observation, an aggressive style of humour. We define fugitive, a component of playfulness, as an ability to “acquire” a new identity through simulation of feigned states, for example, another intellectual level - genius / stupidity / insanity; another stage of moral development; altered states of consciousness - alcoholic (or narcotic) intoxication / trance / ecstasy; a state with a reduced / absent response to the world around us - sleep / fainting / death. At the same time, feigned behaviour reflected by a player him/herself and observed by Other is aimed at enhancing the sense of identity.

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