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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"social affiliation"”.
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The Effect of Acute Bright Light Exposure on Social Affiliation
… through which light could also influence social behavior, little is known at this point about the direct effects of bright light exposure on social interaction. Accordingly, the present study - utilizing a sample of young adults endorsing at least mild seasonal fluctuations in clinically …
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The Effects of Power and Religiously Motivated Ingroup Preference on Social Affiliation
<p>Human beings are fundamentally social animals motivated by a need to establish and maintain close social relationships. The creation of these relationships inevitably leads to the creation of groups, along with a desire for power as a method of determining how resources are to be allocated …
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The Validity and Comparison of Two Affiliation Tasks in Schizophrenia
Negative symptoms are related to worse psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia. The current study evaluates two behavioral affiliation tasks—the video-based Social Affiliation Interaction Task (SAIT) and the in-vivo Conversation Task (CT)—and explores whether behavioral ratings of social …
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An Investigation Into Factors That May Contribute to School Violence in Male High Schools in Kuwait
This study examined the relationship between social affiliation and school violence among male public high school students in Kuwait. Specifically, this study investigated the violent behavior characteristics of tribal and non-tribal male public high school students in Kuwait and the relationship …
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Multidimensional Acculturation Among South Asians: Factor Structure of the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA) and Relationship to Eating and Body-Image Disturbance
… (mainstream traditions acculturation; mainstream social affiliation acculturation; heritage traditions acculturation; heritage social affiliation acculturation) underlie the VIA in this sample. Next the associations between these four acculturation factors and eating and body-image pathology were …
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Preference and affiliation refines the neurotranscriptome pathway for mate preference
… male models or two female models) underwent a social behavioral assay (30 minutes in total) in which two social-choice behaviors (preference and social affiliation) were measured. To capture the genes underlying these decisions, the brains of each female were sequenced (Illumina RNA-seq) …
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The effectiveness of customer engagement in co-creation: the moderating role of customer personality traits
… to the co-creation process. Thus, drawing on social exchange theory and service-dominant logic, a conceptual framework for this study is built and seeks to explain how engaging customers in the co-creation process can affect new product success. The inquiry extends to examine the impact of …
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"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon
… communication education, as well as social affiliation and leisure theories. Finally, an Internet survey of 343 international TI members revealed the demographics of the "typical" TI member: a male or female college graduate between the ages of 36--50, who works in a wide range of …
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Majority Influence in Infancy
… useful insights into the role that context and social cues play in guiding infants' attention. By introducing an element of ambiguity (using boxes rather than novel toys) and adding cues to boost majority salience, Chapter 3 examined whether 12- and 19-month-old infants' attention to a novel …
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Predictors of moral behaviour in football
… thesis was to investigate predictors of prosocial and antisocial aspects of morality in football. In Study 1, moral identity, task, and ego orientations were included to predict prosocial and antisocial judgement and behaviour. Prosocial judgement was predicted by task orientation at low …
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Patterns of Affiliation and Co -Operation in Howler Monkeys: An Alternative Model to Explain Social Organization in Non -Human Primates
… questions concerning the evolution of primate sociality and factors that constrain the size, composition, cohesiveness, and interactions among individuals living in a social group. Although it has been suggested that feeding competition, aggression, and predator avoidance determine the size and …
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
… poor households increase their participation in social groups after receiving Bolsa Família. The strategy explores households registered in Cadastro Único, and performs a propensity score difference-in-difference framework to minimize selection bias. Becoming a recipient of Bolsa Família …
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Oxytocin and Social Sensitivity: Implications for Vulnerability to Stress and Depressive Symptoms
… that has been implicated in several prosocial behaviors, such as trust, empathy and social affiliation, and might contribute to mental health disorders marked by social disturbances. Indeed, Chapter 1 indicated that the accumulated evidence points to interactions between oxytocin, and …
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Relationships between motivation to use social network sites, relational interdependent self-construal, achievement goals, social goals, and academic performance among Malaysian adolescents
… between adolescents’ motivation to use social network sites (SNS), relational interdependent self-construal (RISC), social goals, achievement goals and academic performance in a Malaysian context. Motivation to learn in school is vital in energising and directing students’ learning …
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Livelihoods, capabilities and insurgent citizenship in and around a rainforest metropolis : from violent urbanism to a new rurality?
… the poor, who bear a disproportionate share of social pathologies including violence, poor health and inadequate access to healthcare and social rights. This uneven distribution of injustices has been theorized as “differentiated citizenship.” These injustices impinge on the wellbeing of the …