Two studies are reported which examined the content of beliefs about self-attributes in social phobia, and the level of certainty with which these beliefs are held. The results of both studies indicated that individuals with social phobia held less positive beliefs about their personality characteristics in comparison to non-anxious individuals. In addition, social anxiety was associated with r...

This paper will provide an overview of research in the past 20 years into the relationship between dyslexia and various aspects of self-perception, including self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy and locus of control. Problems are identified relating to the measurement of some of the most widely used constructs, as is the need for more precise identification of key variables relating to them...

Within the context of a theory of self-other orientations it was proposed that the self-concept is a mediating agent between the organism and the social environment, and that self-esteem is that component of the self-system which is associated with the organism's consistency of social response. The consistency of the level of participation of patients in group therapy sessions was found to be a...

Because of the reason that the individuals’ thoughts have the complicated and uncertain characteristics in the field of social science, this study makes the most of the fuzzy sets, which solve uncertain and imprecise conditions, to transform the opinions belonging to human beings into the quantitative numbers. Advertising involvement is regarded as the object for this empirical study which comp...

In this paper we propose a new approach based on formal concept analysis (FCA) for community detection in social networks. We propose GroupNode modularity function which improves a partial detection method proposed by Falzon by taking into account the whole of actors in the social network. We name our approach GNOM-FCA for GroupNOde Modularity combined with Formal Concept Analysis approach. In ...

We propose three methods for obtaining solutions in fuzzy constraint networks and study their application to the problem of ordering fuzzy numbers. The techniques proposed may be classified as defuzzification functions which are applicable to any set of mutually dependent fuzzy numbers in which the dependence relationships are represented by means of metric constraints. We suggest the use of th...

This theoretical integration of social psychology's main cognitive and affective constructs was shaped by 3 influences: (a) recent widespread interest in automatic and implicit cognition, (b) development of the Implicit Association Test (IAT; A. G. Greenwald, D. E. McGhee, & J. L. K. Schwartz. 1998), and (c) social psychology's consistency theories of the 1950s, especially F. Heider's (1958) ba...

Social media is becoming an increasingly important source of information to complement traditional pharmacovigilance methods. In order to identify signals of potential adverse drug reactions, it is necessary to first identify medical concepts and drugs in the text. We evaluate different concept extraction techniques on medical forums and for the machine learning approaches we encode complex ann...

The global wave of democratization in the final decades of the twentieth century presented scholars with the challenge of conceptualizing a diverse array of post-authoritarian regimes. The national political regimes in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the former communist world that emerged in the democratic third wave (Huntington 1991) exhibited important attributes of democracy. Yet these reg...

This chapter aims to present and discuss the concept of ‘destination image’, as shown in the literature to date and also to identify the way in which the image has been formed. The process of image formation is a dynamic one, in which the influence factors have a different importance and they continuously change and complete each other. It intend to analyze the formation and communication of th...