That objective reference is necessary for formation of reliable beliefs about the external world is almost axiomatic. However, Condorcet (1785) suggested that purely subjective information--if shared and combined via social interaction--is enough for accurate understanding of the external world. We asked if social interaction and objective reference contribute differently to the formation and b...

the social security act is called as a new branch of law. one of the important sections on social security criminal act is the section 97 which in this article will be studied with the aim of explaining of the article as one of the rules of social security, pathology and extending of the law literature of social security. this study shows that, while the 97 section creates and states the new an...

Virtual reality is providing new tools to explore and quantify human social cognition. Here we review some recent studies using virtual characters to study imitation behaviour, with a focus on VR methods. We created virtual characters which demonstrate pointing actions and find that typical adults spontaneously copy action height. In a second study, we are able to create virtual characters whic...

Male sexuality is a complex phenomenon shaped by personal, cultural,and social factors. This article has argued that male sexual function is an important consideration in conditions such as prostate cancer. There are surely other conditions where it is understood even more poorly. Although theorists tend to explore male sexuality in relation to vague concepts such as power, phallocentrism, and ...

Is it possible to construct a computational model how ontology ‘works’? Most ontologies cover only a small part of reality – can we construct computational models which demonstrate how reality and knowledge about reality are linked? What would such a computational model contribute to the current discussion? Many practical ontologies are computational models – from database schema to the data de...

Since socialism as a logically consistent system will both produce and require human beings with different consciousness, behavior and capabilities than those produced and required by capitalism, one has a chicken-and-egg dilemma for a transition to socialism. Particularly important is the obfuscation of the social cooperative nature of human production (and hence existence) behind both the ide...

Persistent online virtual environments, whether game worlds like World of Warcraft or social worlds like Second Life, provide social scientists with the opportunity to collect longitudinal behavioral profiles from users. These environments allow behavioral measures of interesting variables at the individual and group level to be collected and analyzed. For example, studies have examined mutual ...