popular music has various functions in social intreactions. this study tries to answer the questions, “what are the roles of popular music in creating and developing social capital?” and through what mechanisms it leads to the generation of social capital?” the research method used in this study was qualitative including grounded theory strategy. the research data were collected through in-dept...

G(V,E) social graph, V is the set of nodes, E is the set of edges P transition matrix of the random walk process n number of honest nodes in G λ initial state vector of the random walk process π stationary distribution of G l random walk length Ql accumulated probability distribution of the nodes being traversed by a random walk with length l t threshold frequency used in the sybil identificati...

The present investigation explores the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of social influence on preferences. We socially tagged symbols as valued or not – by exposing participants to the preferences of their peers – and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (m...

In the leading article in this issue of the Journal, Kaufman and Cooper (1) attempt to elucidate why social epidemiology has allegedly failed to provide explanations for the associations between social factors and disease. Their main argument is that the assumptions of counterfactual models routinely used in observational studies are not adequate for testing social factors. The authors illustra...

Previous studies of social phobia have reported an increased vigilance to social threat cues but also an avoidance of socially relevant stimuli such as eye gaze. The primary aim of this study was to examine attentional mechanisms relevant for perceiving social cues by means of abnormalities in scanning of facial features in patients with social phobia. In two novel experimental paradigms, patie...