Social dilemmas arise when people follow their own best interests, yet the consequence of their separate choices is sub-optimal for all of them. Monetary payoffs, however, do not necessarily define best interests. “Best” is constructed and can depend strongly on social context. Two studies successfully manipulated and measured group affiliation. Increased saliency of the group and of social goa...

Conflict features in the lives of many animal species and induces social stress mediated by glucocorticoid hormones [1]. Postconflict affiliation, between former opponents (reconciliation) or between former opponents and a bystander (third-party affiliation), has been suggested as a behavioral mechanism for reducing such stress [2], but has been studied almost exclusively in primates [3]. As wi...

BACKGROUND In the 19th century, eminent French sociologist Emile Durkheim found suicide rates to be higher in the Protestant compared with the Catholic cantons of Switzerland. We examined religious affiliation and suicide in modern Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. METHODS The 2000 census records of 1,722,456 (46.0%) Catholics, 1,565,452 (41.8%) Protestants and 454,397 (12.2%) ind...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name prescription medications to lower-cost therapeutic equivalents, and whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when information is added about an affiliation the quoted individual shares with the recipient. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 5498 union m...

The term "own-race bias" refers to the phenomenon that humans are typically better at recognizing faces from their own than a different race. The perceptual expertise account assumes that our face perception system has adapted to the faces we are typically exposed to, equipping it poorly for the processing of other-race faces. Sociocognitive theories assume that other-race faces are initially c...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the effects of group work intervention on female survivors' senses of guiltlessness, affiliation and hopefulness. METHOD Secondary comparative analyses of a large quasi-experiment-based clinical data base were accomplished (Richter, Snider, & Gorey): group work intervention (N = 78) and a waiting-list condition (N = 80). RESULTS Group work was found to have ben...

Article Type: Editorial Title: Statistical Significance, Effect Size and Confidence Intervals Year: 2022; Volume: 2; Issue: 4; Page No: 3–4 Author: Karuthan Chinna https://doi.org/10.55349/ijmsnr.20222434 Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Business Management, UCSI University, Malaysia. Email ID: [email protected] Phone

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a major academic tertiary medical center, and Faulkner Hospital (Faulkner), a nearby community teaching hospital, both in the Boston, Massachusetts area, have established a close affiliation relationship under a common corporate parent that achieves a variety of synergistic benefits. Formed under the pressures of limited capacity at BWH and excess capacity at...