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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Homophily"”.
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A Test of the Homophily Principle Using On-Line Personal Advertisements
… and attitudes as well as the concept of homophily. In an effort to bridge the gap between previous dating conclusions and a modern means for meeting people, this research is an attempt to determine if previously established conclusions about homophily transcend to mate selection conducted …
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Sociodemographic Homophily Within Friendship and Sequential Peer Victimization: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
… on peer victimization remains understudied. Homophily refers to the tendency that people to befriend similar others (Lazarsfeld & Merton,1964). The current thesis investigated how homophily–magnitude (i.e., similarity level) and direction (i.e., which party of the dyad has a high score in …
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The Duality of Identities and Groups: The Effects of Status Homophily on Social Interactions and Relations
<p>Gender and racial stereotypes are a pervasive aspect of social life arising from the consolidation of resources, statuses, and social roles and identities at the population level. They are widely shared group-level associations that influence how we perceive ourselves and others. Understanding …
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Fraternity and sorority member perceptions of homophily, supportive communication, and group behavior as a function of control expectancies
… of Control Scale (Levenson, 1973), the Perceived Homophily Measure (McCroskey et al., 1975), the Quality of Relationship Inventory (Pierce et al., 1991), dimensions of the Group Behavior Inventory (Friedlander, 1966) and the Leader-Member Exchange Measure (Graen & Cashman, 1975). Results of a …
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The power of peers: mobile youth culture, homophily and informal learning among a group of South African youth
Popular notions of "net generations" and "digital natives" have already been subject to sustained academic critique. This dissertation builds on such critiques by documenting the local practices and distinctive mobile literacies of a group of young people in South Africa. These young people (ages …
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Breaking the Muscular Mold: The Application of Homophily, Credibility, and Physical Attractiveness within Attitude and Perceived Behavioral Control towards Weight Lifting
… assessments of attractiveness, credibility, and homophily and indirectly influences participants' attitudes and perceived control over theory own weight lifting behavior. Though the hypothesized model was not a good fit, an exploratory respecification of the proposed model shows physical …
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An examination of the relationship between characteristics of Expanded Food and Nutrition Program paraprofessionals and their effectiveness as change agents
… (N=116) were obtained from EFNEP Family Records. Homophily, the measure of correspondence, was calculated by comparing each paraprofessional with their sample of three homemakers. Three personality factors (concrete thinking, impulsivity, and self-discipline) along with homophily were correlated …
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From Opinion Dynamics to Collective Action: How Identity-Based Tolerance Leads to Political Extremism
… in political extremism to mechanisms of opinion “homophily” (i.e., like-minded individuals interact more while dissimilar ones might distance) and “assimilation (i.e., interactions homogenize opinions),” which collectively suggest a social world dominated by extreme views. Yet, this view …
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Shared Organizational Culture and Leader Communication: A Study of Correlation
… perception of the communication competence and homophily of his/her leader and the member's degree of shared culture, as espoused by the leader. Five hypotheses were advanced as well as five research questions regarding the relationship and predictive power of the communication variables …
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Enhancing Identity Theory Measurement: A Case Study in Ways to Advance the Subfield
… methodologies. The second piece investigates homophily–the tendency to associate with similar others. Focusing on minority identities in higher education, this study explores homophily across various demographics, such as race, gender, and academic rank, thus providing insights into the …
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Distributed Dynamic Hierarchical Task Assignment for Human-Robot Teams
… conducted between humans and robots to create a homophily situation. Homophily means when a person feels biased towards another person because of having similarities in social ways. We conducted this study to determine whether humans can form a homophilic relationship with robots and whether …
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Mechanisms driving social structure in Octodon degus
… proximity, female social cohesion, and female homophily based on masculinization (anogenital distance) in shaping social associations. Nighttime spatial proximity was negatively associated with association strength, indicating that individuals that were closer at night exhibited stronger …
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Modeling dynamic community acceptance of mining using agent-based modeling
… base case social network, is more sensitive to homophily and number of early adopters than average degree (number of friends). Also, the dynamics of information diffusion are sensitive to differences in clustering in the social networks. Though the research examined the effect of three networks …
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A modular adversarial approach to social recommendation
… Social regularization grounded in ideas of homophily and influence appears to capture latent user preferences. However, there are two key challenges: first, the importance of a specific social link depends on the context and second, a fundamental result states that we cannot disentangle …
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Constructing brand loyalty via social networks
… amongst social network members is called ‘homophily’, where “similarity breeds connection” (McPherson, 2001, p.415). In order to determine the strength of brand loyalty amongst a social network, a qualitative study was performed on a sample of consumers from the ‘digital age’ generation …
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Stories of Seventh-day Adventist Teachers of Color and their Voluntary Job Mobility During their Early Years of Teaching
… students to succeed. The study was guided by homophily and transformative learning theories, employing a narrative format to reveal the experiences of these educators and the factors influencing their mobility.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Findings indicate that forming and growing homophily …
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Actor-based Models of Substance Use in Adolescent Social Networks: Unravelling complex drivers of behaviour
… analysis was performed on one of the networks. Homophily according to gender and ethnicity was found in the observed networks. Smokers tended to be friends with other smokers and those friendships appeared to be driven by social selection processes. The same processes did not appear to drive …
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Gendered and classed stereotyping : the effects of viewing Teen Mom
… and affinity (i.e. identification, homophily, and parasocial interaction) with media models are utilized to explain the processes through which viewers are affected by viewing the gendered and classed representations on the show. The findings from this study suggest that participants …
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