Social exclusion has many effects on individuals, including the increased need to belong and elevated sensitivity to social information. Using a self-reporting method, and an eye-tracking technique, this study explored people's need to belong and attentional bias towards the socio-emotional information (pictures of positive and negative facial expressions compared to those of emotionally-neutra...

Social exclusion remains a serious development issue in the developing world and in South Asia in particular, hindering the life chances of millions of people. Although authorities often pay lip service to increasing the social participation of excluded groups, talk is rarely backed up by action. A more inclusive, sustainable development pathway is needed to promote the empowerment and wellbein...

In 7 experiments, the authors manipulated social exclusion by telling people that they would end up alone later in life or that other participants had rejected them. Social exclusion caused a substantial reduction in prosocial behavior. Socially excluded people donated less money to a student fund, were unwilling to volunteer for further lab experiments, were less helpful after a mishap, and co...

Two results related to Mulholland inequality are presented. First, there are functions that are not geo-convex but solve Mulholland inequality; thus Mulholland’s condition is not necessary. Second, the set of functions that solve Mulholland inequality is not closed with respect to compositions. As a corollary, the dominance relation on the set of strict triangular norms is not transitive. The p...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Yangtze Center of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China Abstract The aim of this article is to study the attracting and quasi-invariant sets for a class of impulsive stochastic difference equations. By establishing a difference inequality, we obtain the attracting and quasi-invariant sets of systems under consideration. An example is give...

Précis This debate article highlights the challenges of health situation in Iran and some influencing or relevant factors such as health sector, welfare system and social protection, social exclusion and civil society from the viewpoint of an international partner. Some advanced experiences in Iranian health system and the manner of system for international cooperation have also been discussed.

Research has shown that social exclusion has devastating psychological, physiological, and behavioral consequences. However, little is known about possible ways to shield individuals from the detrimental effects of social exclusion. The present study, in which participants were excluded during a ball-tossing game, examined whether (reminders of) secure attachment relationships could attenuate n...