Generalized Trust Rather than Perception of Relational Mobility Correlates with Nominating Close Friends in a Social Network ¹

Relational mobility explains between- and within-culture differences in self-disclosure to close friends.

In the current research, we tested a novel explanation for previously demonstrated findings that East Asians disclose less personal information to other people than do Westerners. We propose that both between- and within-culture differences in self-disclosure to close friends may be explained by the construct of relational mobility, the general degree to which individuals in a society have oppo...

RUNNING HEAD: Relational mobility, culture, and self-disclosure Relational mobility explains between- and within-culture differences in self-disclosure to close friends

The current research proposes a novel explanation for previously demonstrated findings that East Asians disclose less personal information to others than do Westerners. We propose that both betweenand within-culture differences in self-disclosure toward close friends may be explained by the construct of “relational mobility” – the general degree to which individuals in the society have the oppo...

Neural Correlates of Boredom in Music Perception

Introduction: Music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. An important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. Methods: We used EEG recording in nine sub...

Identifying Influential Friends in Social Network Gaming

'Nasty neighbours' rather than 'dear enemies' in a social carnivore.

Territorial animals typically respond less aggressively to neighbours than to strangers. This 'dear enemy effect' has been explained by differing familiarity or by different threat levels posed by neighbours and strangers. In most species, both the familiarity and the threat-level hypotheses predict a stronger response to strangers than to neighbours. In contrast, the threat-level hypothesis pr...