We examine individuals’ distributional orderings in a number of contexts. This is done by using a questionnaire-experiment that is presented to respondents in any one of seven “flavours” or interpretations of the basic distributional problem. The flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional comparison is explicitly addres...

Today, it is common that people are users of more than one social network and their friends may also be registered on multiple websites. A facility to aggregate our online friends into a single integrated environment would enable us to keep up-to-date with our virtual contacts more easily, as well as to provide improved facility to search for users across different websites. In this paper, we p...

spiritual identity is conceptualized as defining and identification of oneself based on spirituality and spiritual experiences. this study, in a framework of a causal model, investigated the mediating role of spiritual identity between family communication orientations and loneliness aspects. participants, four hundred undergraduate shiraz university students (268 girls and 132 boys) were parti...

purpose: this study aimed to assess the relationship between religious orientation (internal / external) of library users and their tendency to safekeeping and protect the information resources and heeding library rules. method: the research method was survey and the data gathered using the alport questionnaire of religious orientation and a questionnaire for assessing the tendency of the users...

Twitter is a widely used online social media. One important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. In this paper, we investigate whether the daily number of tweets that mention Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) stocks is correlated with S&P 500 stock indicators (stock price and traded volume) at three different levels, from the stock market to industry sector and individual company stoc...

A large body of research documents cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. Westerners tend to be more analytic and East Asians tend to be more holistic. These findings have often been explained as being due to corresponding differences in social orientation. Westerners are more independent and Easterners are more interdependent. However, comparisons of the cognitive tendencies...

Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) countries often exhibit different psychological processing to people from less-WEIRD countries. The former exhibit more individualistic and less collectivistic social orientation, and more analytic and less holistic cognition, than non-Westerners. Yet the mechanisms responsible for mai...

the aim of this study was to design the strategic orientations model of market, brand and entrepreneurship in the food industry in iran.  the organizational decisions are not formed  in a vacuum but in the economic and cultural environmental context of each country, they are much influenced by many different factors. this study is of applied type and was conducted in two stages. first after an ...