DO NATIVE ADVERTISEMENTS ATTRACT MORE ATTENTION FROM FACEBOOK USERS?

Center of Attention: How Facebook Users Allocate Attention across Friends

An individual’s personal network — their set of social contacts — is a basic object of study in sociology. Studies of personal networks have focused on their size (the number of contacts) and their composition (in terms of categories such as kin and co-workers). Here we propose a new measure for the analysis of personal networks, based on the way in which an individual divides his or her attent...

Do the Emotionally More Intelligent Gain More from Metacognitive Writing Strategy Training?

Though privileges ascribed to various facets of language learning strategy training have long been espoused with regard to varied language skills and components, the role some individual variables such as emotional intelligence might play in this respect seems to have received very scant attention. The researchers in the current study embarked on a probe into the impact of metacognitive strateg...

Attention for emotional faces under restricted awareness revisited: do emotional faces automatically attract attention?

Theoretical models of attention for affective information have assigned a special status to the cognitive processing of emotional facial expressions. One specific claim in this regard is that emotional faces automatically attract visual attention. In three experiments, the authors investigated attentional cueing by angry, happy, and neutral facial expressions that were presented under condition...

Do Democracies Attract Portfolio Investment?

Social Networking Sites:How to Attract New Users

If the World Wide Web was once an enormous library, it is now a vast conversation. Transmitting information from one person to another has never been easier and since the birth of social networking websites the methods of communication have become more diverse than ever before. Though these days many social networking sites are there having millions of existing users, there are still many diffe...