social neuroscience integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive act...

Social accountability of healthcare educational institutions is an emerging concept in professional education. World Health Organization defines social as obligation medical colleges to direct teaching and research activities towards community health concerns

The purpose of this paper is to explore a new deontic operator for representing what an agent ought to do; the operator is cast against the background of a modal treatment of action developed by Nuel Belnap and Michael Perloff, which itself relies on Arthur Prior's indeterministic tense logic. The analysis developed here of what an agent ought to do is based on a dominance ordering adapted from...

Did I tell you about the back pain patient who paused in our waiting room after being discharged just long enough to steal the coin change machine? He didn’t get away with it though, because he stopped in the parking lot for a smoke, where security found him. He ran, but got caught and roughed up by the police, and ended up back in the ED for worsening back pain. What a world we live in! I have...

We explore the view that coordinated behavior is driven by the social constraints (e.g. obligations and interdictions) that agents in organizations are subject to. In this framework, agents adopt those goals that are requested by their obligations, knowing that not ful lling obligations induces a price to pay or a loss of utility. Based on this idea we build an integrated agent coordination sys...

This article examines the influence of social networks and value congruence on turnover intention among public and nonprofit employees. We argue that employees exist in social networks inside and outside their organization, and these networks shape employee attitudes and behavior. To illustrate this theory, we use turnover intention. A strong and positive intraorganizational social network char...

Operating under the assumption that the current technological revolution will result in increased unemployment due to smart machines being used in roles traditionally occupied by humans, this article addresses how societal promotion of communitarian pursuits over affluence will lead to increased social justice. A greater reallocation of wealth can be expected when communitarianism thrives becau...

This study explores how dentists explain the concept of social responsibility and its relationship to issues affecting access to oral health care by vulnerable segments of the population. Analysis of open-ended interviews with thirty-four dentists, including dental educators, and administrators and officials of dental public health programs in Canada and the United States revealed that four mai...

Behavioral norms consist of two components: a cognitive component of obligation that is thememory repository of social standards, and an emotional component of sanctions that are the feelings and physiological states that result when actual behavior is consistent or not consistent with the obligation. This article analyzes the cognitive and emotional components of norms identiŽ ed in three stud...