background: the aim of this study was to assess community knowledge and behavioral impact of the social mobili­zation and communication strategy applied in a dengue high-risk area in sri lanka. methods: a group of adults visiting selected primary care facilities in colombo district were interviewed to collect socio-demographicdata, attributes of knowledge regarding dengue and the responsive beh...

Humanlike robots are designed to communicate using human verbal and nonverbal language and engage in conversations with people where social gaze cues play an important role. While research in human-robot interaction has shown that people understand these cues and interpret them as valid signals for human communication, whether social gaze cues can serve as an effective communicative mechanism t...

Despite ongoing prevention efforts, young gay and bisexual males continue to engage in sexual behaviors that place them at disproportionately high risk for HIV infection. Parental monitoring and parent-child communication have been found to be associated with low-risk sexual behavior among heterosexual youth, but the role of family interactions for gay and bisexual male youth remains largely un...

Three experiments examine how the type of language used to describe in-group and out-group behaviors contributes to the transmission and persistence of social stereotypes. Two experiments tested the hypothesis that people encode and communicate desirable in-group and undesirable out-group behaviors more abstractly than undesirable in-group and desirable out-group behaviors. Experiment 1 provide...

this study has examined the organizational antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in najafabad public organizations. to this end, proportional questionnaires were distributed among 280 employees of organizations as a sample. to test the hypothesis, the data were fitted to structural equation models based on chi-square, normed chi-square, incrementa...

This chapter addresses the topic of how embodied neural agents coordinate together to exhibit interesting social behaviors. Embodied neural agents are defined in this Introduction. Sections 2 through 5 describe simulations of collective phenomena emerging from the interactions among embodied neural agents living in the same environment. Section 2 discusses spatial aggregation and proto-social b...

Autistic regression consists of paucity of social and emotional reciprocity, disorders of language and communication, and stereotyped behaviors that are noted after a period of normal or near-normal development for one or two years. We report a case who presented autistic regression symptoms but was improved with comprehensive multi-modal treatment approach in motor, language, and social domain...

Bacteria of the genus Aeromonas display multicellular behaviors herein referred to as "social life". Since the 1990s, interest has grown in cell-to-cell communication through quorum sensing signals and biofilm formation. As they are interconnected, these two self-organizing systems deserve to be considered together for a fresh perspective on the natural history and lifestyles of aeromonads. In ...

The decade following World War II saw the rapid rise of research on the effects of mass communication. Most of this research focused on the persuasive influence of mediated messages – first in print form, and later through radio and television broadcasts. Many, in fact, feared the assumed power of the media to shape and control the ideas, attitudes, and behaviors of societal members (Berelson, ...