We consider the effect communications by mobile phone have on the process of building relations of individuals, and discuss the impact such communications have on interpersonal relationships among individuals in a network society. Our research results indicate that a network society is significantly affected when mobile communication becomes widespread within that society. In the field of manag...

Social surroundings greatly affect how we perceive ourselves. Examining the network of social relations may help us reveal important information about our psyche. We build on this idea and propose a model that is consistent with social psychological theories and connects individuals’ emotional states with their social relations. The model consists of a social network of agents. Using a centrali...

In this paper we introduce a method to monitor interpersonal relations through a game with a social dilemma. In the game players can interact with each other through negotiations and by exchanges of resources. To enable the monitoring of interpersonal relations this environment confronts players with specially selected instances of the game, where strategies based on different social factors (l...

In this paper we present a model of facial behaviour encompassing interpersonal relations for an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Although previous solutions of this problem exist in ECA’s domain, in our approach a variety of facial expressions (i.e. expressed, masked, inhibited, and fake expressions) is used for the first time. Moreover, our rules of facial behaviour management are consist...

The vertical dimension of interpersonal relations (relating to dominance, power, and status) was examined in association with nonverbal behaviors that included facial behavior, gaze, interpersonal distance, body movement, touch, vocal behaviors, posed encoding skill, and others. Results were separately summarized for people's beliefs (perceptions) about the relation of verticality to nonverbal ...

OBJECTIVE Psychological distress may contribute to chronic activation of acute-phase inflammation. The current study investigated how financial stressors influence psychosocial functioning and inflammation. This study examined a) the direct relations between financial stress and inflammation; b) whether the relationships between financial stress and inflammation are mediated in part by negative...

The Heider balance is a sociological problem of a division of a community into hostile groups, where all interpersonal relations within the groups are friendly and all relations between the members of different groups are hostile. Here we trace how the research of the process of attaining the Heider balance has moved during last ten years from a psycho-social to a computational problem.

Human’s non-verbal behavior may convey different meanings. They can reflect one’s emotional states, communicative intentions but also his social relations with someone else, i.e. his interpersonal attitude. In order to determine the non-verbal behavior that a virtual agent should display to convey particular interpersonal attitudes, we have collected a corpus of virtual agent’s non-verbal behav...

Discourse structure relations can be used to establish collaborative discourses within a cultural digital library. Ranging from factual to more interpersonal levels they describe the intended relations between data and metadata objects, especially annotations. Pragmatics aspects are covered by communicative acts, which complement the discourse structure relations and provide means for metacommu...

This study advances the understanding of fear of failure (FF), a dispositional avoidance-oriented achievement motive, by employing interpersonal classification techniques to groups of individuals who fear failure in order to examine the pathoplastic relations between FF and interpersonal problems. Shame-based FF is thought to be related to the self-regulation strategies of appeasement and aggre...