Slim Masmoudi

Naif Arab University for Security Sciences · Crime Prevention

Introduction The modulating effect of emotion on creativity is one of the most current topics in cognitive research. Emotion, and particularly positive emotion, is supposed to be conducive of creativity and to enhance the processes of creative thinking. Objective This work aimed to study the modulating effect of emotional valence of the task mater...

Picasso said, "If you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the good in doing it?" How many times have you thought of doing something and you did something else? How many times have you planned, for example, to go to a Web site and you have seen a Web site quite different? How many times were you talk­ing about shopping on Sunday and inste...

This paper describes and analyzes two different sub-systems of knowledge structures - namely “domain-oriented” and “solving-oriented” knowledge structures - in the results of a case study based on interviews and experimental sessions. This case study consisted in the analysis of the activities of an expert programmer in his debugging of a complex c...

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a psychological phenomenon in all its complexity, invol...

Depuis longtemps cette question taraude les psychologues de la cognition. Partant de ce questionnement, Du percept à la décision cherche à rendre compte des progrès réalisés ces dernières années pour mieux comprendre nos activités cognitives quotidiennes, à la lumière des connaissances nouvelles et actualisées sur l’implication de la modulation émo...

Restoring social bonds, Repairing dysfunctional connections with family and community, and Reframing thinking and feeling in youth at risk of radicalization are the three pivotal action lines in the 3R model. Together, they seemed to be efficient ways to prevent violent extremism in youth. Radicalization is a multidimensional process based on cogni...

Violent extremism (VE) threatens global security. Efforts to counter VE have focused on identifying factors that pull and push toward extremism. However, identifying individual and community qualities that buffer against VE remains insufficient and needs improvement. This review aimed to identify links between resilience and VE. A systematic review...

The World Intellectual Property Organization issued the 2021 Innovation Index Report based on numerous partnerships with actors in the innovation ecosystem, which gave greater momentum to the index and high reliability in the report’s results. The index focused more on human capital in scientific research, market and business development, knowledge...

Introduction: Emotions, whether positive or negative emotions, are considered fundamental psychological states in humans. They have a central place in the modulation of cognitive activities from percept to decision. The emotional valence of words influences their understanding and their use in communication. Objective: First, this work aims to eval...

Globalization and new forms of crime have increased the spread of violence and threats toward individuals and societies. It has become imperative to follow the recent trends in crime prevention, as they are proactive, participatory, stimulating the role of the individual and the community, and using technology. For this reason, the paper aims to sh...

This study translates the Building Resilience to Violent Extremism (BRAVE) measure to assess individual and community resilience levels to resist, counter, and buffer violent extremism. The Arabic BRAVE measure translated and validated the original Grossman (2020) five factors scale. The Arabic BRAVE measure provided scores across the same five fac...

Artificial intelligence is used in different fields. This paper describes a new opportunity to connect artificial intelligence to cognitive social psychology. We touch two important psychology paradigms: emotional and cognitive dissonance. Our hypotheses are proved using the new video based emotions analysis system (VEMOS) by testing labeled videos...

Key Takeaways: It is necessary to give utmost importance to communication strategies and plans to confront the epidemic of misinformation (infodemia) and unify them among countries to ensure safe information and enhance people’s confidence and response. Media misinformation and the use of Infox about the pandemic had a significant negative impact o...

This study was conducted to assess the psychological distress in the general population of Tunisia during the pandemic of COVID-19 and examines how awareness of the disease, emotional experience, and motivation shaped the behavior toward this outbreak. The study covers 1492 Tunisian participants. Gender effects and age limits were studied in relati...

The Micro-facial expression is the most effective way to display human emotional state. But it needs an expert coder to be decoded. Recently, new computer vision technologies have emerged to automatically extract facial expressions from human faces. In this study, a video-based emotion analysis system is implemented to detect human faces and recogn...

The empowerment of youth and women is a fundamental element in the attainment of security in the world in general and in the Arab world in particular. The empowerment of youth and thus enabling it to play an effective role in the twenty-first century society constitutes a guarantee for maintaining the balance and the development of society at many...

The empowerment of youth and women is a fundamental element in the attainment of security in the world in general and in the Arab world in particular. The empowerment of youth and thus enabling it to play an effective role in the twenty-first-century society constitutes a guarantee for maintaining the balance and the development of society at many...

Accepted paper for publication in Revue Tunisienne de Sciences Sociales Introduction : Les émotions, qu’elles soient positives ou négatives, sont considérées comme des états psychologiques fondamentaux chez l’être humain. Elles occupent une place centrale dans la modulation de l’activité cognitive allant du percept à la décision. La valence émotio...

The first aim of this volume is to be the first distinguished Arabic reference for the cognitive sciences of intelligence, creativity, and giftedness. The second aim of the book is to be also one of the distinguished international scientific references of cognitive science for intelligence, creativity, and giftedness. It also aspires to impart the...

Français: L’effet de la langue sur la charge émotionnelle du lexique est un thème de recherche parmi les plus novateurs dans le champ de la recherche en psychologie cognitive et en psycholinguistique. Les adjectifs en langue française et en langue arabe sont supposés susciter une valence émotionnelle significativement différente chez des tunisiens...

Cem15 is the third edition of the series of conferences on the CEM integration which aims to strengthen the CEM cognitive revolution. This edition is subtitled “Broadening the base – Blending the mind”. Therefore, Cem15 brought together researchers from diverse horizons in cognitive sciences and affective sciences in the aim to re-examine all the p...

Abstract Contemporary researchers concluded that it has become necessary for the giftedness identifying approach to be a multidimensional and a multimethod approach to allow making out most of the different areas of giftedness in individual. Accordingly, other criteria are proposed for gifted student's identification and selection such as innovatio...

Recent scientific breakthroughs in the integration of cognition, emotion, and motivation (CEM) into the study of a wide range of human activities at multiple levels, from neural activity to functional behavior, have noteworthy implications for cog­nitive science, neuroscience, affective science, and psychological sciences in general. They have also...

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a psychological phenomenon in all its complexity, invol...

Fr: Une traduction de "Understanding Motivation and Emotion" de Johnmarshall Reeve, Psychologie de la motivation et des émotions est un manuel motivant à lire et passionnant à comprendre qui instaure un pont solide entre le champ de la recherche scientifique et la vie de tous les jours. En présentant au lecteur de nombreuses applications pratiques...

Traduire Understanding Motivation and Emotion était pour moi un voyage passionnant à la fois dans l' esprit de Johnmarshall Reeve (théoricien, scientifique de l' éducation, agitateur des nouvelles et anciennes idées sur ce qui est le coeur même, le moteur de notre activité, la motivation) et dans les esprits, classiques, contemporains, divers, tant...

Quelque part dans la cognition de chacun, au coeur même des structures conceptuelles, il y a une pensée créative. La plupart des études contemporaines sur la créativité s’accordent sur son caractère inhérent à la cognition humaine, s’éloignant ainsi de plus en plus d’une considération élitiste de son fonctionnement (créateurs, artistes, etc.). En f...

Pendant longtemps, le paradigme cognitiviste STR [Stimulus-Traitement-Réponse] a régné sur les modèles de la cognition. Bien qu’il ait servi de schéma directeur utile dans l’étude des divers aspects de la cognition humaine, il devient de plus en plus obsolète et incapable d’expliquer la richesse et la complexité des représentations mentales, les as...

Le processus de prise de décision nécessite des compétences et des ressources cognitives et affectives pour accomplir la tâche de décision qui n’est pas toujours sans difficultés, surtout lorsqu’il s’agit de sujets qui viennent juste de franchir le seuil de l’adolescence, et qui sont appelés à affronter une épreuve d’orientation scolaire. Prendre u...

Un certain nombre d’évaluations de la base physique de l’émotion ont laissé entendre que sa manifestation psychologique dépend de la mémoire de travail. J’explore ce lien en examinant l’impact sur la mémoire de travail de deux importantes sources de perturbation émotionnelle potentielle, à savoir l’anxiété et la dépression. Il est suggéré que l’anx...

Depuis longtemps cette question taraude les psychologues de la cognition. Partant de ce questionnement, Du percept à la décision cherche à rendre compte des progrès réalisés ces dernières années pour mieux comprendre nos activités cognitives quotidiennes, à la lumière des connaissances nouvelles et actualisées sur l'implication de la modulation émo...

The theme of this first edition was “integrating … to better explain performance”. It was organized in October 2007 in Hammamet – Tunisia. It participated to the initiation of the cognitive revolution advocating the integration of cognition, defined until then as the functions and processes of information processing, and emotion and motivation defi...