Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

Loss of community identity in opinion dynamics models as a function of inter-group interaction strength

Recent technological changes have increased connectivity between individuals around the world leading to higher frequency interactions between members of communities that would be otherwise distant and disconnected. This paper examines a model of opinion dynamics in interacting communities and studies how increasing interaction frequency affects the ability for communities to retain distinct id...

Managing Group Risk Attitude

Group formation: The interaction of increasing returns and preferences’ diversity

1 This is written for the volume Group formation in economics: networks, clubs, and coalitions edited by Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders. This chapter is not intended to be a survey, and is quite naturally influenced by my own work. thank Francis Bloch and Myrna Wooders for helpful remarks.

Charged group surface accessibility determines micelleplexes formation and cellular interaction.

Micelleplexes are a class of nucleic acid carriers that have gained acceptance due to their size, stability, and ability to synergistically carry small molecules. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA gene regulator that is consists of 19-22 nucleotides. Altered expression of miRNAs plays an important role in many human diseases. Using a model 22-nucleotide miRNA sequence, we investigated...

Antecedents of the attitude towards inter-group reconciliation in a setting of armed conflict.

BACKGROUND The concept of Reconciliation as applied to inter-group conflict has come into use only recently. Throughout the history of Psychology, Reconciliation was mostly understood at the individual and inter-personal level. METHOD In the present study we shall analyse the roles played by trust, negotiating attitude, legitimacy and ethnocentric attitude over the attitude towards social rec...