Consumer researchers describe Heider’s (1958) balance theory without showing how the theory relates to recent theoretical developments in consumer behavior. Empirical examination of the theory is also lacking in consumer-psychology literature. This article updates Heider’s balance theory in consumer behavior by developing the theory’s links to theories of perceptual, attitudinal, and behavior a...

The argument presented in this paper is that one fruitful approach to the study of social network evolution takes the form of examining event sequences as generating mechanisms. Evidence for this comes from two empirical studies of structural balance theory and one simulation study of balance theoretic processes. Four views of causality—system, statistical (predictive), mechanism and algorithmi...

The central problems in social sciences concern the social and psychological mechanisms and conditions required for the emergence and stability of human groups. The present article is dedicated to the problem of stability of human groups. We model human groups using local interacting systems of automaton with relations and reactions and using the structural balance theory. The ‘structural balan...

In this letter we clarify the role of heat flux in the hydrodynamic balance equations in 2D quantum wells, facilitating the formulation of an Onsager relation within the framework of this theory. We find that the Onsager relation is satisfied within the framework of the 2D hydrodynamic balance equation transport theory at sufficiently high density. The condition of high density is consonant wit...

nowadays, right to environment, during constitutions, court decisions and administrative procedures, in internal public law have been identified and secured. the recognition of this right in public law is dependent on normative evolutions. with the promotion of the tight to environment in constitutional norms, we can speak about the real impact of the constitutionalization in contemporary publi...