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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"Social information"”.
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Social information filtering for music recommendation
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994
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Diffusion, Infection and Social (Information) Network Database
… with the appearance and proliferation of online social network services, social (information) network analysis and mining techniques have become closely intertwined with the analysis of diffusive and infection phenomena. In this dissertation, we suggest various analysis and mining techniques to …
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Toward Geo-social Information Systems: Methods and Algorithms
The widespread adoption of GPS-enabled tagging of social media content via smartphones and social media services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) uncovers a new window into the spatio-temporal activities of hundreds of millions of people. These \footprints" open new possibilities for …
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SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN ADOLESCENTS WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
The present study examined social information processing in a sample of teenagers with various comorbid neurodevelopmental disabilities and typically developing controls. Crick and Dodge’s (1996) model of social information processing was used as the theoretical framework for the current study. …
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Social Information Processing and Working Memory Following Pediatric Stroke
There is a dearth of research examining social competence following pediatric arterial ischemic stroke (AIS). Previous studies suggest that working memory (WM) and social information processing (SIP), two related individual characteristics that are critical for this construct, are compromised …
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Social information processing in aggressive and withdrawn preschool children
… considerable attention has been given to a social information processing model as a means of understanding interaction patterns in children. Within the framework of that model, systematic biases have been found in the manner in which aggressive children process social information. The …
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Social Information Processing, Cortisol Secretion, and Aggression in Adolescents
While both social information processing and cortisol secretion in childhood aggression have generated a great deal of interest and research in the past few decades, these social-cognitive and physiological components of aggressive behavior have not been examined in the context of an integrative …
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Terrorism as a social information entity: A model for early intervention.
This dissertation studies different social aspects of terrorists and terrorist organizations in an effort to better deal with terrorism, especially in the long run. The researcher, who also worked as a Police Captain at Turkish National Police Anti-Terrorism Department, seeks solutions to today's …
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Leveraging social information systems : using blogs to inform technology strategy decisions
… new methods for processing Internet-based information to achieve growth. This is particularly applicable in complex systems where fact and perception of reality influence each other, and social information systems bridge the two. Social information systems are systems which allow …
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Manipulating social information to promote frugivory by birds on a Hawaiian island
Animals across a range of taxa use social information when foraging. Fruit-eating vertebrates are no exception and use social information to find fruit, which may ultimately affect plant populations via seed dispersal. In many systems, mutualistic relationships between fruiting plants and …
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Social Information Processing Deficits, Intimate Partner Violence, and Coercive Control in Dating Couples
The current study investigated how social information processing (SIP) deficits are related to intimate partner violence (IPV) and coercive control among heterosexual dating couples. I assessed four steps of Crick and Dodge’s (1994) six-step SIP model, namely: attitudes and attributions, goal …
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Costly Signaling and Social Valuation: A Multi-Method Examination of Social Information Processing
… and to spend more of their resources to signal social status. Marketers might look at these effects and see them as evidence of the old business adage, 'Sex Sells.' This adage is consistent with a reward sensitive perspective from psychology and neuroscience: attractive individuals of the …
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The Effect of Social Information on Reliance and Efficacy in AI-assisted Prediction
… do people perceive and use these systems under social influence? Through a pre-registered randomized human-subject experiment, I study the effect of two forms of social information-direct conversations and summarized peer decisions----on users' reliance and effectiveness in leveraging …
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Developmental and Gender Patterns in Social Information Processing: Social Problem-Solving and Social Goals
… first- through fifth-grade children's (N = 514) social information processing, as well as the role emotion plays in these patterns. Developmental patterns and goal selection have been relatively understudied in past social information processing literature. Videotaped ambiguous provocations were …
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The impact of social information processing on peer relations in pediatric traumatic brain injury
… traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display poor social adjustment compared to children without TBI. Little is known regarding the nature of social deficits in TBI, but models of social competence suggest links between social information-processing (SIP), peer acceptance, and friendship. However, …
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Interpreting Ambiguity in Sexual Dating Encounters: Social Information Processing Differences in Men and Women
… be the most prevalent type of rape. Dating and social interactions provide a context influenced by social factors (e.g., relationship with perpetrator, relationship expectation, peer influences) and personal factors (e.g., social perceptions, goals, learning history), many of which have been …
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The Power of Social Information in Distributed Consensus in Ant-Colonies: Model and Analysis
The decentralized cognition of animal groups is both a challenging biological problem and a potential basis for bio-inspired engineering design. The understanding of these systems and their application can benefit from modeling and analysis of the underlying algorithms. In Chapter 2, we define a …
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The Effects of Noise and Aggressive Cues on Preschoolers' Encoding and Interpretation of Social Information
… These studies examined preschool-age boys' social information processing in situations of arousal. It was hypothesized that, under conditions designed to increase arousal, boys would respond more aggressively than those in neutral conditions. Procedure: A total of 60 four year old boys …
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The Influence of Children's Affective Ties on the Goal Clarification Step of Social Information Processing
<p>Previous studies have shown that children’s social goals are influenced by<br />emotion and that emotions can be manipulated using relationships. The present study combines these previous findings by examining the effect of children’s relationships on social goals. Social goals were examined in …
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Attachment disorganization in infancy: a developmental precursor to maladaptive social information processing at age eight
… security and organization in infancy and social information processing at age eight. The sample included 77 children at high risk for maltreatment. Attachment quality was assessed using the Strange Situation, when children were on average 19.4 monthsold. Children’s social information …
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