Essential to development advance in any society, having social support that social capital is one of those and include components:  "social trust", "social cohesion", "social participation", "social consciousness", and "religiosity".                                                       The aim of this research is on relationship between social capital and urban development variable. Statistica...

Discriminative facility refers to an individual's sensitivity to subtle cues about the psychological meaning of a situation. This research aimed at examining (a) the conceptual distinctiveness of discriminative facility, (b) the situation-appropriate aspect of this construct, and (c) the relationship between discriminative facility and interpersonal experiences. Discriminative facility was asse...

The experiment of this paper studied the role social orientation would play in double-dilemma situations. In a double-dilemma situation, social dilemmas exist both between and within groups; a cooperation choice at the within-groups level is considered a defection choice at the between-groups level, and vice versa. Using such a situation, whether "others" in other-orientedness are limited to th...

To be able to take efficient measures in crisis management, it is essential for emergency services to get as much details about an actual situation on-site as possible. Currently content from social media plays an important role since those platforms are used to spread crisis-relevant data within the population. Our contribution presents a concept which supports the situation assessment practic...

Using a dialectic method of philosophic inquiry, the actual ethical, legal, and social situation associated with genetic testing of beryllium-exposed workers in Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities for markers of chronic beryllium disease is described. The cultural evolution of a caste system in a similar situation, and its social and biological implications, among uranium miners in ...

It is very difficult for overseas students to learn Japanese polite expressions because these expressions change in a complicated manner according to context, for instance, hyponymy, social distance, and the formality of the conversational situation. Moreover, the notion of social distance in Japan often differs from that in the learner's country. This difference may result in misunderstanding ...

Empirical studies show that academia is socially exclusive. I argue that this social exclusion works, at least partly, through the systematic methodological disqualification of contributions from members of underrepresented social groups. As methodological quality criteria are underdetermined their interpretation and weighting can be biased with relation to gender, race, social background, etc....

We aimed at analyzing important predictive factors for experienced negative emotional and social effects of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) two years after diagnosis in patients aged 18-65 years. The first group included 41 participants, who had psychosocial problems (PSP) already at diagnosis, and who received an intervention by a medical social worker to improve coping capacity and social situation...

The paper discusses empathy and autism and points towards empathic resonance and biographic reconstruction as mechanisms which are grounding sociality in real-world interactions. I argue that instead of modelling sociality, e.g. by representing and manipulating computational concepts of oneself and others, sociality can be experienced by the very act of being physically involved in a social sit...