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Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and competing cognitive components of these theories were tested with a focus on understanding the socially anxious (SA) individual’s mental representation of self, and its relation to the experience of anxiety in a social situation. Unacquainted pairs of non-socially anxious individuals (n = 61 pairs) and mixed pairs of highly SA and non-socially anxious (NSA) individuals (n = 101 pairs) participated in a “get acquainted” and a structured problem-solving task. All participants rated both their expectations for making specific impressions as well as the importance of making those impressions. All participants also rated how anxious they felt, how anxious they thought they appeared, and how anxious their partners appeared during the interaction. While all participants believed it was important to make a positive impression, SA individuals expected they would make an overall less positive impression than NSA participants. All individuals reported increased anxiety when ratings of impression importance were higher than expectation ratings (test of Schlenker and Leary’s [1982] model). While self-ratings of anxious appearance were similarly influenced by interoceptive information for both SA and NSA individuals (test of Clark and Wells’ [1995] model), for NSA individuals who had a high tendency to attend to publicly observable aspects of their body, the relation between arousal and self-reported appearance was particularly robust in comparison with that for SA individuals. SA individuals as a group were rated by partners as appearing more anxious than NSA participants. Overall, NSA participants’ ratings of a desire for future interaction with SA and NSA partners were comparable. Implications for theory, measurement concerns of key anxiety constructs, treatment implications and need for further investigation are discussed.

Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and competing cognitive components of these theories were tested with a focus on understanding the socially anxious (SA) individual’s mental representation of self, and its relation to the experience of anxiety in a social situation. Unacquainted pairs of non-socially anxious individuals (n = 61 pairs) and mixed pairs of highly SA and non-socially anxious (NSA) individuals (n = 101 pairs) participated in a “get acquainted” and a structured problem-solving task. All participants rated both their expectations for making specific impressions as well as the importance of making those impressions. All participants also rated how anxious they felt, how anxious they thought they appeared, and how anxious their partners appeared during the interaction. While all participants believed it was important to make a positive impression, SA individuals expected they would make an overall less positive impression than NSA participants. All individuals reported increased anxiety when ratings of impression importance were higher than expectation ratings (test of Schlenker and Leary’s [1982] model). While self-ratings of anxious appearance were similarly influenced by interoceptive information for both SA and NSA individuals (test of Clark and Wells’ [1995] model), for NSA individuals who had a high tendency to attend to publicly observable aspects of their body, the relation between arousal and self-reported appearance was particularly robust in comparison with that for SA individuals. SA individuals as a group were rated by partners as appearing more anxious than NSA participants. Overall, NSA participants’ ratings of a desire for future interaction with SA and NSA partners were comparable. Implications for theory, measurement concerns of key anxiety constructs, treatment implications and need for further investigation are discussed.

BARRETO, Dulcilene Rodrigues da Silva. A conceitualização de educação à luz da teoria dos modelos cognitivos idealizados: percorrendo veredas entre mente e linguagem dos alunos da educação básica. 2011. 142f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguistica) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernaculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2011. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-07-04T16:49:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_diss_DBARRETO.PDF: 24801017 bytes, checksum: 38335b2b2bc18d29fe8275fb6864bcd8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-03T16:34:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_diss_DBARRETO.PDF: 24801017 bytes, checksum: 38335b2b2bc18d29fe8275fb6864bcd8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-03T16:34:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_diss_DBARRETO.PDF: 24801017 bytes, checksum: 38335b2b2bc18d29fe8275fb6864bcd8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / This research aimed to analyze, through the structured principals of Idealized Cognitive Models Theory (LAKOFF, 1987), embodied, socio cognitive situated meanings attributed to the concept of EDUCATION by thirty-three final year high school students of a government school in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, who participated of the research as unpaid volunteers. In order to achieve the mentioned aim, it was analyzed the responses provided by the students in answering two tasks – a questionnaire and a writing task aimed at eliciting data which allowed to explore the category prototypical nature and its metaphoric and metonymic extensions. The methodological approach follows the principals proposed by lakofian Cognitive Semantics which posits that people concepts are not arbitrary but emerge from the nature of their bodies in dynamic interactions with the ecological and social cultural world. The qualitative data analysis was supported by Lakoff’s (1987) Idealized Cognitive Models Theory (ICMT) and Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980/[2002]) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). The texts produced by the participants made possible the analysis of the ORIGIN – TRAJECTORY – TARGET and CONTAINER image schemas in the structuring of the EDUCATION concept, the most salient proposition models (frame and scripts) to represent the school routine and the EDUCATION metaphors. The data gathered were organized in table and graphs in order to allow for comparisons between semantically close expressions and the distribution of the analyses about the EDUCATION concept structuring cognitive models. Such organization has also facilitated the metaphoric projections and their entailments. The most relevant metaphors were EDUCATION IS AN ACQUIRED, VALUABLE ASSET and EDUCATION IS A JOURNEY. The results obtained have also allowed to propose a radial category for the concept of EDUCATION as it emerges from embodied social culturally beliefs and values shared by the participants. / Esta pesquisa objetivou analisar, por meio dos princípios estruturadores dos Modelos Cognitivos Idealizados(LAKOFF, 1987), os significados sociocognitivamente situados atribuídos ao conceito de EDUCAÇÃO por trinta e três alunos concludentes do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública em Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil,que participaram da pesquisa como voluntários não remunerados. Para se atingir o objetivo proposto, foram analisadas as respostas fornecidas pelos alunos em duas tarefas - um questionário e uma atividade escrita destinadas a obter dados que permitiram explorar a natureza prototípica da categoria e suas extensões metafóricas e metonímicas. A abordagem metodológica segue os princípios propostos pela Semântica Cognitiva de Lakoff que postula que os conceitos das pessoas não são arbitrários, mas emergem da natureza de seus corpos em interações dinâmicas com o mundo ecológico e sociocultural.A análise de dados qualitativos apoiou-sena Teoria dos Modelos Cognitivos Idealizados (TMCI), de George Lakoff (1987) e na Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual (CMT), de Lakoff e Johnson (1980/[2002]). Os textos produzidos pelos participantes tornaram possível a análise os modelos de esquemas de imagem ORIGEM-PERCURSO-META E CONTEINER na estruturação do conceito EDUCAÇÃO, os modelos proposicionais frames e scripts que se sobressaíram para representar o cotidiano escolar e as metáforas sobre EDUCAÇÃO.Os dados colhidos foram organizados em tabelas e gráficos de modo a permitir o estabelecimento de comparações entre as expressões semanticamente afins coletadas nos questionários e a distribuição das análises sobre os modelos cognitivos estruturantes. Essa organização também facilitou as análises de projeções metafóricas e seus acarretamentos. As mais relevantes metáforas foram EDUCAÇÃO É BEM ADQUIRIDO, VALIOSO e EDUCAÇÃO É VIAGEM.Os resultados obtidos também permitiram propor uma categoria radial para o conceito de EDUCAÇÃO no modo como ele emerge das crenças social e culturalmente consagradas e dos valores compartilhados pelos participantes.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-01-07T12:38:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquitotal.pdf: 1192412 bytes, checksum: db42896ea0c6b878919821acb1c996f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-07T12:38:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquitotal.pdf: 1192412 bytes, checksum: db42896ea0c6b878919821acb1c996f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-31 / The present study aims to investigate the presence of operative moral notions systematically metaphorical conceptualization of terms recurring in sermons delivered by Priest Antonio Vieira. Specifically, we intend to delineate how morality is embedded to the metaphorical conceptualization of lexical items: 1- God, man, divine law, sin, scripture (gospel); 2 life, soul, salvation, blessing, grace, glory, evoked in Vieira's preaching. We propose also outline the conceptual frameworks evident from the correlation between morality and metaphorical concept of the above terms. Thus, we start from two assumptions: the first is that, in the religious discourse of Vieira, the metaphorical conceptualization of previous terms cited, underlie moral foundations that operate systematically. Our second hypothesis is that the items: life, soul, salvation, blessing, grace and glory, so-called "spiritual goods" in religious discourse, are designed metaphorically as material goods, subject to the guidance of an accounting morality governing their acquisitions or transfers. Such an approach closer, so the spiritual matters of financial transactions. To achieve the goals and confirmation of our hypotheses, this research was based on the theoretical background developed by Lakoff and employees, more specifically, in the theories of Conceptual Metaphor (2002 [1980]), the Idealized Cognitive Models (1987) and System hypothesis metaphorical detailed Morality in Lakoff (1995) and Lakoff and Johnson (1999). In this way, our research is affiliated to the field of Cognitive Semantics. Such theoretical assumptions served as essential foundations for conducting a qualitative analysis of the data extracted from the Priest Vieira's sermons. From these driven analysis devices it was possible verify that the strict father model, based on notions of moral order and moral strength, as absolute moral authority, it was revealed prototypical source to the meaning of the divine figure. So, in the speech of Priest Antonio Vieira, God was conceptualized metaphorically as father (parent or adoptive), judge, king and to lender. Although less prominent, in that speech, other moral line to the conception of God was identified, the moral of the nurturant father that prioritizes the care and protection, God was pastor, leaving morally guard and protect his flock (church) of unconditionally. Our second hypothesis was confirmed. We found that life, soul, salvation, blessing, grace and glory, spiritual items, discursively were raised in terms of valuable material possessions, taking thus the financial practices (transactions for the purchase or exchange of goods) as domain source. Before this situation, certify that the procedures for the negotiation of these items in the religious sphere are subjugated to the line of morality, more exactly, a retributive moral accounting, the basis of retributive justice established by the absolute moral authority of STRICT GOD-FATHER. / O presente estudo tem como objetivo investigar a presença de noções morais operantes sistematicamente à conceptualização metafórica de termos recorrentes em sermões proferidos por Padre Antônio Vieira. Especificamente, pretendemos delinear o modo como a moralidade está imbricada à conceptualização metafórica dos itens lexicais: 1- Deus, homem, lei divina, pecado, escritura sagrada (evangelho); 2- vida, alma, salvação, bênção, graça, glória, evocados na pregação de Vieira. Propomo-nos, também, esboçar os quadros conceptuais evidenciados a partir da correlação entre moralidade e conceito metafórico dos termos supracitados. Desse modo, partimos de duas hipóteses: a primeira é a de que, no discurso religioso de Vieira, à conceptualização metafórica dos termos suprarreferenciados, subjazem fundamentos morais que operam sistematicamente. Nossa segunda hipótese é a de que os itens: vida, alma, salvação, bênção, graça e glória, ditos “bens espirituais”, no discurso religioso em questão, são concebidos metaforicamente como bens materiais, estando sujeitos à orientação de uma moralidade contábil que rege suas aquisições ou transferências. Tal enfoque aproxima, portanto, as questões espirituais das transações financeiras. Para a consecução dos objetivos e confirmação de nossas hipóteses, a presente pesquisa pautou-se no panorama teórico desenvolvido por Lakoff e colaboradores, mais especificamente, nas teorias da Metáfora Conceptual (2002 [1980]), dos Modelos Cognitivos Idealizados (1987) e na hipótese do Sistema Metafórico da Moralidade detalhada em Lakoff (1995) e em Lakoff e Johnson (1999). Desse modo, nossa investigação está filiada ao campo da Semântica Cognitiva. Tais pressupostos teóricos serviram de fundamentos essenciais para a condução de uma análise qualitativa dos dados extraídos dos sermões de padre Vieira. A partir desses dispositivos de análise acionados, foi possível constatarmos que o modelo de pai severo, fundamentado nas noções da ordem moral e força moral, como autoridade moral absoluta, revelou-se fonte prototípica à significação da figura divina. Portanto, no discurso vieiriano, de maneira sobressaliente, Deus foi conceptualizado metaforicamente como pai (genitor ou adotivo), juiz, rei e até credor. Embora sendo menos proeminente, no referido discurso, outra via moral para a concepção de Deus foi identificada, pela moral do pai cuidadoso que prioriza o cuidado e proteção, Deus exerceu o papel de pastor, cabendo moralmente guardar e proteger seu rebanho (igreja) de forma incondicional. Nossa segunda hipótese também foi confirmada. Verificamos que vida, alma, salvação, bênção, graça e glória, itens do âmbito espiritual, foram evocados discursivamente em termos de bens materiais valiosos, tomando, assim, as práticas financeiras (transações para aquisição ou permuta de bens) como domínio-fonte. Ante esse quadro, atestamos que os trâmites para a negociação desses itens na esfera religiosa estão subjugados à linha da moralidade, mais exatamente, a uma contabilidade moral retributiva, base da justiça retributiva instaurada pela autoridade moral absoluta de DEUS-PAI SEVERO.

abstract: Reasoning about the activities of cyber threat actors is critical to defend against cyber attacks. However, this task is difficult for a variety of reasons. In simple terms, it is difficult to determine who the attacker is, what the desired goals are of the attacker, and how they will carry out their attacks. These three questions essentially entail understanding the attacker’s use of deception, the capabilities available, and the intent of launching the attack. These three issues are highly inter-related. If an adversary can hide their intent, they can better deceive a defender. If an adversary’s capabilities are not well understood, then determining what their goals are becomes difficult as the defender is uncertain if they have the necessary tools to accomplish them. However, the understanding of these aspects are also mutually supportive. If we have a clear picture of capabilities, intent can better be deciphered. If we understand intent and capabilities, a defender may be able to see through deception schemes. In this dissertation, I present three pieces of work to tackle these questions to obtain a better understanding of cyber threats. First, we introduce a new reasoning framework to address deception. We evaluate the framework by building a dataset from DEFCON capture-the-flag exercise to identify the person or group responsible for a cyber attack. We demonstrate that the framework not only handles cases of deception but also provides transparent decision making in identifying the threat actor. The second task uses a cognitive learning model to determine the intent – goals of the threat actor on the target system. The third task looks at understanding the capabilities of threat actors to target systems by identifying at-risk systems from hacker discussions on darkweb websites. To achieve this task we gather discussions from more than 300 darkweb websites relating to malicious hacking. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Computer Engineering 2018

Dans un contexte industriel en constante évolution, le designer industriel utilise la représentation comme un vecteur lui permettant de s’inspirer et d’opérer des choix stylistiques afin d’imaginer l’expérience induite par les concepts de produits qu’il développe. Ce travail doctoral présente l'étude comparative entre l'activité de design amont traditionnelle et l'activité de design amont immersive, permettant l'évaluation et la modélisation de l'activité de Kansei Design Virtuel. Mes travaux portent essentiellement sur l'application et l'expérimentation de théories fondamentales à travers la conception de deux outils consécutifs du processus de design:• Les Univers de Tendance sont des environnements inspirationnels spatiaux immersifs dédies à la compréhension d'une tendance stylistique et conçu pour substituer et augmenter le rôle des planches de tendances traditionnelles.• Le Dessin Tridimensionnel Immersif est un environnement générationnel permettant au designer de déposer, effacer, manipuler… un tracé dans l'espace et dédié aux premiers croquis d'idéation.Ces recherches ont pour but de développer des outils et un workflow digital immersif permettant d'une part, d'anticiper le Kansei (relation holistique designer/client-produit) afin d'optimiser les choix stylistiques stratégiques et d'autre part, de maximiser la fidélité de retranscription entre espace d'inspiration et espace de génération tout en augmentant la capacité du designer à produire des concepts esthétiques et innovants. / In an ever-changing context, the industrial design uses representation as a vector for inspiration and as a tool to operate stylistic choices which in turn enable the shaping of the experience induced by the designed product.This doctoral research presents the comparative study of traditional early design activity and immersive early design activity. This enables the evaluation and modeling of Virtual Kansei Design. My work essentially address the application and experimentation of fundamental theories through the design of two successive tools composing and innovative early design process.• The Immersive Moodboards are spatial immersive inspirational environments dedicated to the understanding of a stylistic trend, designed to substitute and enhance traditional moodboards.• The Immersive sketching is a generational environment enabling the design to position, erase, manipulate… a graphical mark in a three dimensional space planned for the creation of the first ideation sketches.This research aim to develop tools and a digital immersive workflow which first of all enables the design to anticipate Kansei (holistic relationship between the designer/user and the product) in order to optimize strategic style related choices and secondly enhances the fidelity between inspiration and generation while increasing the ability of the designer to produce innovating and aesthetic concepts.

Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem so genannten „Effekt zu großer Auswahl“. Der Effekt besagt, dass ein Überangebot von Auswahlalternativen negative Konsequenzen hat, in dem es beispielsweise die Motivation verringert, überhaupt eine Entscheidung zu treffen oder in dem es die subjektive Zufriedenheit mit der letztlich gewählten Alternative verringert. Die theoretischen Erklärung es Effektes sind jedoch bisher nur unzureichend präzisiert. Der Effekt steht im Widerspruch zu Axiomen der klassischen rationalen Entscheidungstheorie. Ein sicherer Nachweis des Effektes hätte daher Konsequenzen für die Theorienbildung in der Psychologie. Außerdem hätte der Effekt praktische Relevanz in angewandten Bereichen wie zum Beispiel im Konsumgütermarketing oder in der Politik. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird zunächst der Versuch unternommen, bereits publizierte Studien zu replizieren, in denen große Effektstärken gefunden wurden. In einer Serie von insgesamt drei Replikationen mit insgesamt 850 Versuchsteilnehmern ließ sich jedoch der Effekt zu großer Auswahl nicht replizieren. Der Effekt scheint demnach weniger generalisierbar als bisher angenommen und sein Auftreten hängt vermutlich von spezifischen Randbedingungen ab. Die Arbeit widmet sich im weiteren der Frage wann, wieso und unter welchen Randbedingungen ein Effekt zu großer Auswahl zu erwarten ist. Dabei eine Reihe potenzieller Randbedingungen theoretisch begründet und in sechs weiteren Experimententen mit insgesamt 595 Teilnehmern getestet. Im Ergebnis können die meisten der getesteten Randbedingungen als Erklärung für das Auftreten des Effektes ausgeschlossen werden. Eine sich daran anschließende Meta-Analyse zeigt jedoch, dass der Unterschied zwischen Studien die einen Effekt nachweisen und solchen, in denen kein Effekt auftritt, vermutlich nicht allein durch Zufallsprozesse erklärbar ist. Demnach ist eine Suche nach weiteren Randbedingungen in zukünftiger Forschung gerechtfertigt.teste diese in sechs weiteren Experimententen mit insgesamt 595 Teilnehmern. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen dieser Experimente können die meisten der getesteten Randbedingungen als Erklärung für das Auftreten des Effektes ausgeschlossen werden. Die Ergebnisse einer sich daran anschließenden Meta-Analyse veröffentlichter und unveröffentlichter Daten zeigt jedoch, dass der Unterschied zwischen Studien die einen Effekt nachweisen und solchen, in denen kein Effekt auftritt, vermutlich nicht allein durch Zufallsprozesse erklärbar ist. Demnach ist eine Suche nach weiteren Randbedingungen in zukünftiger Forschung gerechtfertigt. / This dissertation explores the so-called too-much-choice effect, according to which an overabundance of options eventually leads to negative consequences, such as a diminished motivation to choose any of them or a decreased satisfaction with the finally chosen alternative. While strong instances of this effect have been found in a small number of studies in the past, its theoretical underpinnings are still unspecific. Because the effect challenges basic axioms of rational choice theory and it also has important implications for applied fields such as marketing and public policy making, it is important to get a better understanding of the mechanisms that lead to the effect. As a starting point to test these mechanisms, an experimental paradigm is needed in which the effect reliably occurs. Therefore, I first strived to replicate previous experiments that reported large effect sizes. Yet in a series of three replications in the field and in the lab with a total of 850 participants, I did not find an effect of too much choice, suggesting that the effect is less robust than previously thought and that it depends on certain boundary conditions instead. To find out which specific conditions are necessary to reliably elicit it, I subsequently examined several boundary conditions in a series of six laboratory experiments. Based on the results of these experiments with a total of 595 participants, most of the tested boundary conditions could be ruled out as explanations of why and when the effect of too much choice occurs. The results of a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data including my own suggest that the effect of too much choice is smaller than previously thought and that the differences between the studies that found the effect and those that did not cannot be explained by mere chance. As a consequence, a further search for moderator variables in future research seems justified.

As the interactive entertainment industry matures, we need a better understanding of what makes software entertaining. A natural starting point is the application of traditional Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) tools to interactive entertainment software. Cognitive models are tools that HCI researchers have used to model users' thought processes and evaluate interface design. With this research we investigate the relationship between the complexity of an interaction and the entertainment experienced by the user. We designed a simple computer game, created a normative model for how a user plays this game, built several variations of this game such that normative models of these variants differed across two factors: pace and complexity. User studies were conducted on these variations, and we compared these factors to user performance and self-reported user enjoyment.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.