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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"sociability"”.
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Mood and sociability in Cornelia de Lange syndrome
… be atypical in the syndrome, including mood and sociability however there is a lack of quantitative research to support these findings. Methods: Three empirical studies were conducted. The first study employed a questionnaire design to follow up mood, interest and pleasure over a two-year period …
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Older adults' perceptions towards socially assistive robots: connecting trust and perceived sociability
The student, Danniel Rhee, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-20 at 15:13.
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Pleasant Affect and Sociability: Towards a Comprehensive Model of Extraverted Feelings and Behaviors
The extraversion/pleasant affect relation is one of the strongest and most consistent relations in the study of personality and subjective well-being. The strength of this relation has led some to suggest that pleasant affect forms the core of the extraversion dimension. Individual differences in …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
… the relationship that emerged between sociability and material culture at the fin de siècle. Its focus on the mechanisms of sociability and on materiality situates decadent interactions within the physical world. Rather than treating the decadents as isolated individualists who rejected …
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Coffeehouse Sociability: Samuel Pepys and the Creation of Networks in Late Seventeenth Century England
The aim of this work is to address how coffeehouse culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England facilitated the creation of networks. The emergence of the coffeehouse in London created a new social atmosphere for men to interact with one another. Unlike the taverns Englishmen frequented, …
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Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex activity and sociability by local interneurons expressing corticotropi-releasing hormone
<p>The cerebral cortex is composed primarily of two neuronal cell types: excitatory pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneurons. Their neurochemical diversity and complex organization into interconnected laminar and columnar circuits imbues the cortex with countless computational and functional …
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Religious coexistence and sociability in England after the Toleration Act, c.1689-c.1750
… not only that developing modes and norms of sociability were essential to determining the nature of religious coexistence, but also that the changing religious landscape was absolutely integral to the evolution of multiple different social registers in eighteenth-century England. It therefore …
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The role of sound and sociability in the success of invasive lionfish (Pterois spp.)
… as “lionfish”) in relation to sound as well as sociability. These two species are widely invasive in the Western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, where they pose a threat to native fauna through predation. In Chapter 2, I first used a citizen science approach to map …
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"Riots and Sociability : a case study of human interaction networks in Qatif Saudi Arabia"
… thesis aims to investigate the reorganization of sociability under civil duress at an aggregate, urban scale. The study employs a novel approach to communications analysis, applying the Synthetic Control Method to estimate the causal effect of riots on different characteristics of human …
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Person-Oriented Versus Task-Oriented Spin Instruction: Differential Impact on Participants' Mood and Sociability
Exercise has been shown to improve mood (Stöhle, 2009). Research has explored how exercise instructors can affect class participants' mood (Edmunds, Ntoumanis, & Duda, 2008). One style of instruction that is less understood relates to task-oriented vs. person-oriented instruction. The primary aim …
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An investigation of sociability: delineating a behavioural and social phenotype for Monosomy 1p36 Deletion Syndrome
… definitions for four concepts related to sociability (social cognition, social competence, social skills and social behaviour) a concept which itself is poorly defined. By reviewing the definitions available in the wider social and cognitive psychology literature and comparing these to …
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Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Politics of Adab: knowledge, journalism and policing public sociability in 19th century Egypt
This thesis challenges the conventional view of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s reform ideas in broad and binary terms as bridging a gap between ‘Islam and Europe’ or ‘tradition and modernity’. I offer instead an analysis of ʿAbduh’s reformist thought in his own words and local practical context in 19th century …
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Animal personality and the social context: the role of boldness and sociability variation in schooling fish
… fish vary consistently in their boldness and sociability, with only boldness being positively linked to food intake for fish at rest. This finding provides support for evolutionary theory that links personality variation to life-history strategies, and lays the basis for work related to the …
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Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980
… small town of Beverley, focussed particularly on sociability and identity. The thesis argues that sociological and historical concern with the decline of forms of ‘traditional working-class community’ amongst mobile populations in the 1950s and 1960s has obscured recognition of the continuing …
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Social play in competitive contexts. Exploring community, sociability and sociality through team-based competitive video games, relating activities and spaces
… and industry professional on the topic of sociability, sociality and community in competitive games. A series of interviews were conducted in gaming cafes, pre-pandemic, and then online with a variety of players and industry professionals, including professional players and streamers. This …
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Rousseau's solitary man
… in the Second Discourse, of the original a-sociability of human beings and the subsequent emergence of human society as the chance outcome of various contingent alterations to the original human condition. It takes up three major questions that arise in connection with this account: (1) What …
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