Most research on friendship has been grounded in Western cultural worlds, a bias that needs to be addressed. To end, we propose methodological roadmap translate linguistic/anthropological work into quantitative psychological cross-cultural investigations of friendship, and showcase its implementation Russia Canada. Adopting an intersubjective perspective culture, assessed models three inter-rel...

In this study, we present the M-PDCA governance model that is constructed and deployed within the scope of Engineering Performance Enhancement (EPE) Project conducted at FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. Having experienced a rapid growth in the number of concurrent projects and business volume, the major aim of the firm in undertaking the EPE project was to avoid schedule and cost overruns. In this ...

This position paper explores the dual nature of friendship relations as an enabler but also as a pitfall for privacy in social networks. The privacy-deteriorating consequences of unilateral friendship disclosure are quantified for an existing medium-sized social network site. A lightweight implementation of hidden friendship using existing standards is proposed and assessed for practicable and ...

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) offered public housing residents the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. Several years later, boys in the experimental group fared no better on measures of risk behavior than their control group counterparts, whereas girls in the experimental group engaged in lower-risk behavior than control group girls. The authors explore these differences by analyzin...

Friendship is not institutionalized in American society; hence, perceptions of it vary. Rather than studying sources of this variation, most scholars ignore the complexity, bemoan the difficulty it causes in analysis, or eliminate it. We examined the frequency of use of previously studied and emergent characteristics of friendship as definitional criteria and the age, gender, and cultural patte...

Poor physiological self-regulation has been proposed as a potential biological vulnerability for adolescent suicidality. This study tested this hypothesis by examining the effect of parasympathetic stress responses on future suicide ideation. In addition, drawing from multilevel developmental psychopathology theories, the interplay between parasympathetic regulation and friendship support, conc...