Published in Culture, medicine and psychiatry
This article reflects on the narrative data that can emerge through the use of standardized mental health scales, drawing from two studies related to emotional distress among immigrant populations in Texas. In both studies, standardized scales complemented in-depth interviews. The initial goal in using scales was to collect quantifiable data, yet t...
The definition of the term "organoleptic quality" in sensory evaluation of food products does not seem to be consensual. Descriptive or liking methods are generally used to differentiate between wines. Nevertheless, quality evaluation of a product such as wine is defined as an integrated impression, like acceptability, pleasure, aesthetic or emotio...
Published in Klio
This paper explores Xenophon’s depiction of Cyrus the Great as a ruler in the Cyropaedia. Xenophon’s Cyrus is often regarded by the scholarship as an ideal, benevolent leader sincerely concerned with virtue, friendship, and honour-related dynamics. However, it is clear that Cyrus equally resorts to malicious and divisive means, employing psychologi...
Peer reviewed: True / In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One important aspect that receives less attention is why exactly misinformation is a problem. To adequately address this question, we must first look to its speculated cause(s) and effect(s). We examine different disciplines (computer science, eco...
[ES] "En mi interior" es un álbum ilustrado cuyas imágenes plasman un viaje metafórico a través de un mundo mágico, donde cada paisaje o escenario que se encuentra la protagonista es la representación de una emoción/estado de ánimo. En este, imágen y texto se acompañan durante todo el transcurso de la obra para hacer reflexionar al lector llevándol...
Research and theory in nonverbal communication have made great advances toward understanding the patterns and functions of nonverbal behavior in social settings. Progress has been hindered, we argue, by presumptions about nonverbal behavior that follow from both received wisdom and faulty evidence. In this article, we document four persistent misco...
In this paper, we analyze the narrative strategies employed by horse racing gamblers in the context of their interactions within interviews. The empirical base consisted of 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with long-term regular gamblers from Warsaw, Poland. First, we state our position in the context of interviews with people aware they may...
The emotions’ manifestation in the onyms is not a frequent phenomenon. Although, due to the chrematonymy’s general richness, the main aim of this article is to verify how the emotions manifest themselves in the Italian non-profit organisations’ names. The analysis of more than 100 000 chrematonyms has given the opportunity to decide on which levels...
Processing facial expressions of emotion draws on a distributed brain network. In particular, judging ambiguous facial emotions involves coordination between multiple brain areas. Here, we applied multimodal functional connectivity analysis to achieve network-level understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual ambiguity in facial exp...
[EN] The performed project revolves around the analysis, design, and implementation of a system oriented to help people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Using the voice as input, it should recognize the emotions transmitted and play or generate music in response. We know that interpreting emotions can be difficult for people with these types of...
