Speed as a crucial phenomenon of modernism affects individual and collective life of human being and changes the traits of the places people live in. Increasing speed is the demand of the modern era, though on the other side in recent years there is a contrary incline towards slowing down different aspects of life. In view of this, the dualities in between social features of Speed up and slow d...

Background and Aim: This study examined the role of social desirability, self-esteem, and some demographic variables in predicting students’ attitudes toward people with physical-motor disabilities. Procedure: The participants in this cross-sectional study were 300 students at Kurdistan University selected using convenience sampling. The students completed the items in the Google forms of the ...

Prevention and intervention work done within community settings often face unique analytic challenges for rigorous evaluations. Since community prevention work (often geographically isolated) cannot be controlled in the same way other prevention programs and these communities have an increased level of interpersonal interactions, rigorous evaluations are needed. Even when the ‘gold standard’ ra...

Six studies explored the hypothesis that third parties are averse to resolving preference disputes with winner-take-all solutions when disputing factions belong to different social categories (e.g. gender, nationality, fi rms, etc.) versus the same social category. Studies 1–3 showed that third parties’ aversion to winner-take-all solutions, even when they are based on the unbiased toss of a co...

In nature, many forms of organization have been observed in animal societies in response to an environmental constraint. Many mammal species adapt to the constraint by developing a complex and flexible system of social behaviors. This requires the implication of a kind of cognition named the social cognition that allows to everyone to construct mental representations of other members of the soc...

the History, Method and Motives of Social Pathology. By John A. Ryle, M.D. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d. This small book of 122 pages, marks the beginning of a new era in social medicine. It is the result of lectures given in America by the author. Professor Ryle stresses the need for study of social pathology, statistics, research, the measurement of health, and has a ...

Social media enable users to express their emotion promptly, helping health policy makers to gauge public sentiment of disease outbreak. In this research, we developed an approach to social-media-based public health informatics and built a proof-of-concept system named eMood that helps to collect, analyze, and visualize Ebola outbreak discussions on Twitter. Our approach uses a comprehensive le...

We explored the relationship between interactants’ social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of virtual humans. We specifically addressed whether the contingent non-verbal feedback of virtual humans affects the association between interactants’ social anxiety and their verbal self-disclosure. This subject was investigated across three experimental conditions where participants interacted wi...