this article deals with the social and family values in one of the most famous simulation games (the sims) in the recent years. it is tried to answer some questions, whether, the sims is a representative of social values of american society, and in particular, of the american family. what is the cement of the american society from the game point of view? what does the sims family suggest as a m...

The attribute framing bias is a well-established phenomenon, in which an object or an event is evaluated more favorably when presented in a positive frame such as “the half full glass” than when presented in the complementary negative framing. Given that previous research showed that visual aids can attenuate this bias, the current research explores the factors underlying the attenuating effect...

In the ECOOP’97 conference, the author of the present paper investigated a conservative extension, called Ob+1<:, of the first-order Object Calculus Ob1<: of Abadi and Cardelli, supporting method extension in presence of object subsumption. In this paper, we extend that work with explicit variance annotations and selftypes. The resulting calculus, called Ob+s<:, is a proper extension of Ob+1<:....

the purpose of this study was to explore the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attribution styles have in social anxiety of high school students. 430 iranian students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from high schools of isfahan city. participants completed measures of childhood attachment to each parent (hazen and shaver, 1986), the family adaptabilit...

In this study the structure of power in family and its effect on individual's social participation have been observed in the sample of overars old people of Shiraz with survey method. The frame work that used in this survey is a combined frame work. Thin theory used is Parsons social action theory and social participation is a social reaction. Individual's personality will be formed during aliz...