the aim of this study is to investigate the role of security in social deviations among women of babol city. descriptive survey research method was used and the unit of analysis is 15-29 year old women that 284 women are selected on the basis of cochran formula and using multi-stage random cluster sampling. the results show that there is a weak significant relationship between the independent v...

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of security in social deviations among women of Babol city. Descriptive survey research method was used and the unit of analysis is 15-29 year old women that 284 women are selected on the basis of Cochran formula and using multi-stage random cluster sampling. The results show that there is a weak significant relationship between the independent v...

We examine the quality of social choice mechanisms using a utilitarian view, in which all of the agents have costs for each of the possible alternatives. While these underlying costs determine what the optimal alternative is, they may be unknown to the social choice mechanism; instead the mechanism must decide on a good alternative based only on the ordinal preferences of the agents which are i...

I consider the saving and investment decisions of American and Italian consumers in a lifecycle model with temptation preferences. Comparing the choices with and without Social Security protection, I show that savings are postponed, less wealth is accumulated, and the portfolio share held in equities at retirement is larger with Social Security. Social Security distorts the decisions of agents ...

We consider a social choice setting with agents that are partitioned into disjoint groups, and have metric preferences over set of alternatives. Our goal is to choose single alternative aiming optimize various objectives functions the distances between alternatives in space, under constraint this must be made distributed way: The within each group first aggregated representative for group, then...

In-situ hearing aid distortion is defined as distortion measured in the ear canal with stimulus inputs and hearing aid settings that are similar to those the hearing aid wearer will experience in daily life. This preliminary study examined possible relationships between in-situ distortion and benefit for appropriately fitted contemporary hearing aids. Simulated in-situ distortion was determined...

BACKGROUND Treatments for childhood social anxiety have traditionally employed social skills training, based on the assumption that effected children have social skills deficits. Recent conceptualisations of social anxiety in adults have questioned this assumption, and have suggested that socially anxious individuals merely believe that they have skill deficits. A recent study using children pr...

Feminist criticisms of the neglect, distortion, and exclusion of women in psychological research reflect three epistemological positions: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint epistemologies, and postmodern feminism. On the basis of these criticisms, some argue that there is a need for a uniquely feminist method. This article critically examines these claims and calls for a new vision of the...