background and aim: social networking sites (snss), known in terms of cyberspace, are a very popular and accepted aspect of technology. internet is more useful for hearing-impaired children and adolescents than the other users because of the type of communication and its possibility of hiding their disabilities. this study aimed to determine the relationship between using cyberspace and the mot...

Abstract Loneliness is commonly conceived of as a topic under the purview psychology. Empirical research on loneliness utilizes definition psychology essentially subjective, i.e. first-personal mental property an individual can have. As property, subjects have, it were, privileged access to their state being lonely. Rehearsing some well-known arguments from later Wittgenstein, I argue that – co...

Abstract Feeling lonely, being a lonely person, and living through times can all be construed in terms of the emotional experiences individuals. However, we also speak places. Sometimes, place strikes us as even when do not feel ourselves. On other occasions, finding involves feeling isolated, lost. In this paper, I reflect on phenomenological structure loneliness by addressing what it is to ex...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of physical embodiment in human–agent interaction. Experiment 1 (N 1⁄4 32) shows positive effects of physical embodiment on the feeling of an agent’s social presence, the evaluation of the agent, the assessment of public evaluation of the agent, and the evaluation of the interaction with the agent. A path analysis reveals that the feelin...

We introduce an evolutionary game in which envy and charity can be considered as a consequence of Darwinian competition, i.e. individuals aim at increasing their own proportion rather than their absolute contribution to the next generation, and other-regarding-preference is a "method" for that. If the damage is additive and its cost is low, an envious strategy defeats a neutral strategy (ration...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is a universal phenomenon that influences one's health and health perception. GPs are confronted with lonely people quite often. Yet, what GPs think of this phenomenon and how they deal with emotions lonely patients evoke is not known. OBJECTIVE We aimed to explore GPs' experiences with lonely patients. We wanted to gain insight in GPs' feelings regarding consultations w...

DEFINITION OF LONELINESS Described in the scientific literature more than 30 years ago, the feeling of being lonely is characterized as feeling socially isolated or on the social perimeter [3]. It is noteworthy that feeling lonely does not necessarily mean being physically alone. Loneliness corresponds to a discrepancy between the relationships one wants and the relationships one has, so one ca...