Guided by research and theory on sibling similarities and differences, this study explored the nature and correlates of two processes of sibling influence-social learning and sibling differentiation-during adolescence. Participants included two adolescent-aged siblings (M = 16.29 years for older siblings and M = 12.59 years for younger siblings, respectively) from 166 two-parent African America...

This paper studies competition between social media sites in a game theoretic framework. We model three important institutional features of social media sites: (i) firms’ content is usually “user-generated”; (ii) consumers’ preferences are governed by local network effects, and (iii) consumers have strong tendencies to multi-home. In such a setting, ex-ante identical sites can acquire different...

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

The ability to recognize and label emotional experiences has been associated with well-being and adaptive functioning. This skill is particularly important in social situations, as emotions provide information about the state of relationships and help guide interpersonal decisions, such as whether to disclose personal information. Given the interpersonal difficulties linked to social anxiety di...

Caste polyphenism in social insects is regulated by social interactions among colony members. Trophallaxis is one of the most frequently observed interactions, but no studies have been conducted identifying the intrinsic factors involved in this behaviour and caste differentiation. Dopamine (DA) has multiple roles in the modulation of behaviours and physiology, and it produces species-specific ...

How to get a suitable theoretical framework for making comparisons between changes in the structures of local government and governance? Since political actors love to talk about “modernising” local government and political scientist talk about local government reforms as attempts of “modernisation”, one way of approaching the question could be to ask what “modernisation” means. Political actor...

Using the theory of social representations, this small-scale, qualitative study considers whether mental illness is differentiated by a lay population. Three focus groups (total n=17), using students were conducted and content analysed, along with a random sample of articles from two British newspapers, ‘The Mirror’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. A strong social representation of unified ‘mental il...