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Machiavellianism (psychology)

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Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning

Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...

2022

Interoception and Empathy Impact Perspective Taking

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

Adopting the perspective of another person is an important aspect of social cognition and has been shown to depend on multisensory signals from one's own body. Recent work suggests that interoceptive signals not only contribute to own-body perception and s ...

2021

Early life adoption shows rearing environment supersedes transgenerational effects of paternal stress on aggressive temperament in the offspring

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Guillaume Poirier, Sonakshi Gupta

Prenatal experience and transgenerational influences are increasingly recognized as critical for defining the socio-emotional system, through the development of social competences and of their underlying neural circuitries. Here, we used an established rat ...

2021

Machiavellian males with high emotional intelligence exhibit fewer depressive symptoms

Bruno Lemaitre

Research on the link between Machiavellianism and depression has yielded equivocal results. In this study, we examined the possible moderating role of ability emotional intelligence (a-EI) on the Machiavellianism-depression relationship. a-EI was approache ...

2020

Frontal cortical thickness correlates positively with impulsivity in early psychosis male patients

Alessandra Griffa, Kim Do

Aim Impulsive behaviours, which are frequent in young people suffering from psychosis have been linked to risky and violent behaviours and participate to the burden of psychotic illness. Given that morphological brain correlates of impulsivity in schizophr ...

WILEY2019

Connecting the obesity and the narcissism epidemics

Bruno Lemaitre

Obesity and metabolic syndromes are major threats to health in both developed and developing countries. This opinion article is a holistic attempt to understand the obesity epidemic, by connecting it to the widespread narcissism in society. The narcissism ...

Elsevier2016

The Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition 2014

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

The Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition aims to define the state-of-the-art in the field and to provide tools for future standard evaluations in personality recognition tasks. In the WCPR14 we released two different datasets: one of Youtube V ...

2014

A Survey of Personality Computing

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect, any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human ...

2014

Asymmetric facial expressions: revealing richer emotions for embodied conversational agents

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn

In this paper, we propose a method to achieve effective facial emotional expressivity for embodied conversational agents by considering two types of asymmetry when exploiting the Valence-Arousal-Dominance representation of emotions. Indeed, the asymmetry o ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

The influence of sex and empathy on putting oneself in the shoes of others

Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr

We tested whether putting oneself in the shoes of others is easier for women, possibly as a function of individuals' empathy levels, and whether any sex difference might be modulated by the sex of presented figures. Participants (N=100, 50 women) imagined ...

2010

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