Showing with whom I belong: The desire to belong publicly on social media

: To Whom Does Mental Health Belong ?

It is interesting to reflect at this time on the issue of Medical Insurance with the demise of UMP so much in the press recently. I am not going to focus on the pros and cons of insurance as such, or on the world-wide insurance industry with its lack of concern for social equity and the genuinely disadvantaged, alongside the obscene payouts to those managers at the top of the scale whether they...

The desire to belong: Social identification as a predictor of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder.

OBJECTIVE Perception of personal identity cannot be separated from the perception of the social context and one's social identity. Full involvement in group psychotherapy may require not only the awareness of personal impairment, but also social identification. The aim of the current study was to examine the association between social identification and symptom improvement in group-based psycho...

The Need to Belong

Matthias Greiff Affective Social Ties without the Need to Belong ?

Frans van Winden presents a quick introduction to the dynamic ‘dual process’ model of social ties, which was developed by van Winden and colleagues in various publications during the last 20 years. Drawing on evidence from economics and psychology, van Winden argues that preferences are determined by different mixtures of emotional/subcortical and cognitive/neocortical brain activity, with the ...

Sufficient matrices belong to L

In this paper, we establish a significant matrix class inclusion that seems to have been overlooked in the literature of the linear complementarity problem. We show that P∗, the class of sufficient matrices, is a subclass of L. In the course of demonstrating this inclusion, we introduce other new matrix classes that forge interesting new connections between known matrix classes.