A study conducted on a national sample of 1433 individuals from China to examine effects of interpersonal relations on suicide ideation revealed suicide ideation rates were significantly lower than those in US samples. Chinese women scored higher than men in both countries. A model using the Chinese data examined Emile Durkheim's social integration theory for suicide prediction. Author's Abstra...

This article presents the SSPNet-Mobile Corpus, a collection of 60 mobile phone calls between unacquainted individuals (120 subjects). The corpus is designed to support research on non-verbal behavior and it has been manually annotated into conversational topics and behavioral events (laughter, fillers, back-channel, etc.). Furthermore, the corpus includes, for each subject, psychometric questi...

It is proposed that the reciprocation of interpersonal attraction is a multifaceted process involving affective, cognitive, and behavioral elements, and that reciprocation can be interpreted using interdependence theory. Two studies investigated whether expressed attraction implies benevolent intentions and whether such intentions are differentially critical to reciprocated affective and behavi...

Based on Guo and Holyoak’s (2002a, 2002b) work, we propose a stochastic comparison-grouping theory of multialternative decision making to explain three contextinduced violations of rational choice. The attraction effect and the similarity effect are explained by stochastic comparison grouping, according to which similar alternatives are compared more frequently than dissimilar alternatives are....

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies, influences social cognition and social behavior. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the behavioral immune system and how it works, along with a review of empirical research documenting its consequences for a wide ...

This research investigated two competing explanations of the similarity effect: Byrne’s (1971) reinforcement model and the information processing perspective. A meta-analysis of 240 laboratory-based similarity studies explored moderators important to the similarity effect, including set size, proportion of similarity, centrality of attitudes, and information salience. Results indicated effects ...