Purpose – The purpose of this work is to analyse the relationships between the personality traits of linked users in online social networks. First the authors tried to discover relation patterns between personality dimensions in conversations. They also wanted to verify some hypotheses: whether users’ personality is stable throughout different conversation threads and whether the similarity-att...

Part of the reason for the lack of literature addressing the antecedents of game play (rather than the outcome) was that it was perceived as being a technologically deterministic approach. Social scientists wish to believe that human behavior is something that can be cognitively. This paradigm has led most of the research on media effects, which examine socio-psychological factors that are uniq...

The article determines the main trends in development of theory and practice social work education system conditions modern Russia. specific characteristics transition from patronage to individual are revealed, problem areas Russian context further profession, theory, multilevel model identified. examines approaches problems that taking shape within paradigm appear be characteristic new stage i...

Previous studies of social phobia have reported an increased vigilance to social threat cues but also an avoidance of socially relevant stimuli such as eye gaze. The primary aim of this study was to examine attentional mechanisms relevant for perceiving social cues by means of abnormalities in scanning of facial features in patients with social phobia. In two novel experimental paradigms, patie...