The era of community-based participatory research (CBPR) began years ago. It may have even started with the American Revolution, when angry colonists rallied under a banner of " taxation without representation " and demanded that their unwelcome despot change his ways. Much more recently, in the early 1990s, disability activists brought the slogan " nothing about us without us " to common usage...

Studies in cognitive and social psychology have revealed that the distance from X to Y may be estimated as shorter or longer than the same distance from Y to X. Results showed that this judgment depended on particular properties of compared objects and a reference point in social comparisons (Holyoak and Mah, 1982; Codol, 1987; Kamińska-Feldman, 1991, 2012; Arcuri and Serino, 1992; Hurtig et al...

This chapter introduces Iranian groups, the religious elite (mojtaheds), traditional merchants (bazaar) and Iranian “crowd” (lutis and tollabs) who were mobilized during social movement activity in Iran. These groups often formed overlapping relations with one another in Iranian society, but each had different interests that had to be negotiated during social movement activity. Some groups, suc...

This paper will present a movement-informed perspective to social attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). BACKGROUND Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention that is used with participants with ASD in various settings. Regular clinical outcome monitoring in an outpatient setting in the Netherlands had shown positive effects on social attunement capacities in you...

pedestrian areas are a type of urban public space, nowadays because of the serious consequencesof car-dependency and ignoring pedestrian needs, a consensus on the importance of walking and the necessity forplanning for pedestrians movement has been formed among urban designers, planners and people. the concernsabout human health and movement in city create a new trend in contemporary urbanism, ...