This research explores the antecedents and consequences of self-reported blood donation behaviour for females. A model is provided whereby firstly, the antecedents of blood donation behaviour are hypothesised to be involvement in the blood donation social issue and attitude towards the act of blood donation as a social issue. Secondly, it is hypothesised that the outcomes of blood donation beha...

This paper focuses on predicting drop-outs and school failures when student data has been enriched with data derived from students social behaviour. These data describe social dependencies gathered from e-mail and discussion board conversations, among other sources. We describe an extraction of new features from both student data and behaviour data represented by a social graph which we constru...

Generally, non-human primates are social species. Literature indicates that suboptimal housing conditions and social deprivation may lead to the development of abnormal behaviour, which is considered a sign of impaired welfare (Shyne, 2006; Novak et. al, 2002; Novak, 2003; Dellinger-Ness and Handler, 2006). Most non-human primates that are rescued by AAP, a rescue centre for exotic animals, hav...

Criminal behaviour exists in many variations, each with its own cause. A large group of offenders only shows criminal behaviour during adolescence. This kind of behaviour is largely influenced by the interaction with others, through social learning. This paper contributes a dynamical agent-based approach to simulate social learning of adolescence-limited criminal behaviour, illustrated for a sm...

Acute alcohol consumption is associated with socially inappropriate behaviour. Such behaviour could in part reflect the potential of alcohol to interfere with social cognition. In this experiment we tested the hypothesis that acute alcohol consumption by regular heavy social drinking young adults would compromise an aspect of social cognition, namely theory of mind (understanding intentions, em...

Social Customer Relationship Management systems represent a new area in the field of CRM which together with rapid development of Social Networks and Social Media has acquired strategic importance for many companies. As a response to ongoing challenges related to growing customer expectations, in this paper we present intelligent tools for customer behaviour prediction in Social CRM systems. Th...

Until recently social change processes were usually studied at a macro level, focusing on social, political and economic phenomena such as changes in social institutions, political power, or economic disparities. However, such changes are not independent of individual behaviour (or vice versa). Therefore, the interrelations between social change and individual action need to be studied in more ...

Many philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists defend the claim that rational choice theory can provide the basis for a unified and comprehensive theory of social behaviour. Rational choice models are theoretically generalized to explain the behaviour studied by nearly all social science disciplines, from political science to psychology and sociology. Specific applications include go...