Social rejection can increase aggression, especially among people high in rejection sensitivity. Rejection impairs self-control, and deficits in self-control often result in aggression. A dose of glucose can counteract the effect of situational factors that undermine self-control. But no research has integrated these literatures to understand why rejection increases aggression, and how to reduc...

Social media has become ubiquitous and important for content sharing. A typical example of how users contribute content to a social media platform is through comment threads in online articles. Unfortunately, there is an increasing prevalence of malicious activity in these threads by spammers through comment messages. The existing approaches tackling comment spam are comment-level in that they ...

Social networks are becoming pervasive in todays world. Millions of people worldwide are involved in different form of online networking, with Facebook being one of the most popular sites. Online networks allow individuals to connect with friends and family, and share their private information. One of the reasons for the popularity of virtual communities is the perception of benefits received f...

Social networks have become an essential meeting point for millions of individuals willing to publish and consume huge quantities of heterogeneous information. Some studies have shown that the data published in these platforms may contain sensitive personal data and that external entities can gather and exploit this knowledge for their own benefit. Even though some methods to preserve the priva...

Social Network depicts the relationship like friendship, common interests etc. among various individuals. Social Network Analysis deals with analysis of these social relationships. Link prediction algorithms are used to predict these social relationships. Given a social network graph in which a node represents a user and an edge represents the relationship between the users, link prediction alg...

Lonely individuals may decode social cues well but have difficulty putting such skills to use precisely when they need them--in social situations. In four studies, we examined whether lonely people choke under social pressure by asking participants to complete social sensitivity tasks framed as diagnostic of social skills or nonsocial skills. Across studies, lonely participants performed worse ...