A threatening facial expression is a potent social sign of hostility or dominance. During the past 20 years, photographs of threatening faces have been increasingly included as stimuli in studies with socially anxious participants, based on the hypothesis that a threatening face is especially salient to people with fears of social interaction or negative evaluation. The purpose of this literatu...

This paper examines the equilibrium growth effect of money/inflation within a standard one-sector AK model of endogenous growth with the most generalized cash-in-advance constraint and wealth-enhanced preferences for social status. We show that the sign for the correlation between money and output growth depends crucially on (i) the liquidityconstrained ratio of consumption to investment expend...

There is mounting evidence to suggest that social anxiety is associated with the suppression of emotional expression. The current study examined self-reported emotional suppression and beliefs about expressing emotions among undergraduate students (n=95). Socially anxious undergraduates reported greater use of emotional suppression compared to their non-socially anxious peers. They also reporte...

Background: Addressing health-related social needs is essential for improving health and reducing longstanding disparities. However, barriers to screening – including clinician patient time burden of multiple limit identification. To address this concern promote the uptake by clinicians, it important that tools effectively efficiently identify needs’ presence absence among patients.

Wemodel a close-knit community of friends and enemies as a fully connected network with positive and negative signs on its edges. Theories from social psychology suggest that certain sign patterns are more stable than others. This notion of social “balance” allows us to define an energy landscape for such networks. Its structure is complex: numerical experiments reveal a landscape dimpled with ...

Virtual system methodology (VSM) tries to extend system inquiring processes beyond the scope of soft systems methodology, and thus make it applicable to the whirling dynamics of social complexity. At the core of VSM is the process of virtual semiosis, the use of various signs and sign structures while making sense of the emergent behavior of a complex dynamic system as a whole. VSM applies virt...