The study of cybercommunity is inevitably linked to the development of the internet amid other cultural phenomena, and cybercommunity as a cultural practice has clearly reached a point of critical mass.The concept of online community has become increasingly diluted as it evolves into a pastiche of elements that ostensibly ‘signify’ community.This study grapples with the concept of community in ...

We investigated the psychological and social consequences associated with individuals’ motivation to search for information about whether they have been indirectly harmed by members of their group. Consistent with a motivated social cognition perspective, group members who were either chronically (Study 1a) or temporally (Study 1b) high in the motivation to acquire relationship-threatening info...

We investigated the moderating influence of individual differences in women’s sociosexuality on romantic preferences within three specific relationship contexts. Female participants were presented with four prospective mates, varying in their ambition and attractiveness, and were asked to rate interest in these targets as short-term sexual partners, as casual dating partners, and as long-term r...

Mental disorders and criminal behavior are considered to fall under the rubric of deviance. This perspective of deviant behavior forms the framework for comparing community-based programs for emotionally disturbed persons and for offenders with institutionally based program~ The interactionist model lends itself to the development of community-based modalities in lieu of institutionalization; i...

The structural theory of metaphor (STM) uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to generate and interpret metaphors. STM is presented in detail in The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds (Steinhart, 2001). STM is based on Kittay’s semantic field theory of metaphor (1987) and ultimately on Black’s interactionist theory (1962, 1979). STM uses an intensional calculus to sp...

The research discussed in this paper focuses on the emergence of a multimedia language for human and technology to communicate over highly subjective concepts (such as impressions, feelings, and emotions). Nowadays technology is not just a tool for realizing tasks, it also serves as a medium for people to communicate. For that reason, the issue of endowing computers with the ability to understa...

Tensions between economy and environmental issues due to hyper and mass production leads to reflection about a new model of innovation. To shift from intensive innovation to sustainable innovation, we propose an approach which involves the design of a sustainable product’s diffusion system. Our hypothesis is that both the product and the business model should be redesigned in tandem, combining ...

In this paper, we review two standard analyses of scientific theories in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic structures respectively. We show that by focusing exclusively on either linguistic or extralinguistic representational media, both of the standard views fail to capture correctly the complex nature of scientific theories. We argue primarily against strong versions of the two approache...

Biologists and philosophers have offered differing concepts of biological race. That is, they have offered different candidates for what a biological correlate of race might be; for example, races might be subspecies, clades, lineages, ecotypes, or genetic clusters. One thing that is striking about each of these proposals is that they all depend on a concept of population. Indeed, some authors ...

This paper reviews disorders of memory. After a brief survey of the clinical varieties of the amnesic syndrome, transient and persistent, selected theoretical issues will be considered by posing a series of questions. (i) What is impaired and what is spared in anterograde amnesia? (ii) Do temporal lobe, diencephalic and frontal lobe amnesias differ? (iii) How independently semantic is semantic ...