Creativity might be viewed as any process which results in a novel and useful product. People use computers for creative tasks; they flesh out ideas for text, graphics, engineering solutions, etc. Computer programming is an especially creative activity, but few tools for programming aid creativity. Most computers are used in solitude; however, people depend on social supports for creativity. A ...

People possess an innate need to belong that drives social interactions. Aberrations in the need to belong, such as social anhedonia and social anxiety, provide a point of entry for examining this need. The current study used experience-sampling methodology to explore deviations in the need to belong in the daily lives of 245 undergraduates. Eight times daily for a week, personal digital assist...

Socially withdrawn children frequently refrain from social activities in the presence of peers. The lack of social interaction in childhood may result from a variety of causes, including social fear and anxiety or a preference for solitude. From early childhood through to adolescence, socially withdrawn children are concurrently and predictively at risk for a wide range of negative adjustment o...

In the restaurants of some countries, the maître d’ will seat your party at a table already occupied by strangers if the table has sufficient empty chairs. In other cultures, new diners expect to be seated at empty tables even when occupied tables are surrounded by surplus seats. Elementary particles, and composites made of them, fall analogously into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons...

This qualitative study was conducted in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, focusing on infant death from the mothers' perspective. Sixteen mothers whose infants had died were interviewed. Mothers' narratives were analyzed by classifying such categories as perceptions of health-illness-death, the physician-patient relationship, and quality of care. Discontinuity between prenatal and childbirt...

The daily predispositions that are cracked for women in single parenthood variable geometry. After the rupture of conjugality or death spouse, abandonment absence a partner, they begin long stage parenthood. This is what creates matrimonial solitude often punctuated by violence, contempt, revolt eyes entourage, but also marked different kinds solidarity. study analyzes problems encountered stat...