We introduce a model to study the effects of social influences in opinion dynamics. In particular, we analyze the voter model, from a socio psychological perspective, by considering the role of conformity. Conformity is a central issue in social psychology as it represents one of people’s behaviors that emerge as result of their interactions. We introduce a voter model where agents, linked in a...

The role of conformity to dominant U.S. masculine norms as an antecedent to help-seeking attitudes in men has been established using convenience samples made up largely of college-age and European American males. However, the role of conformity to masculine norms on help-seeking attitudes for noncollege-age men or for men from diverse backgrounds is not well understood. To fill this gap in the ...

Conformity is thought to be an important force in cultural evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cooperation in large groups, potentiate group selection and thus explain uniquely human behaviors. However, the effects of such conformity on cultural and biological evolution will depend much on the way individuals are influenced by the frequency of alternative behavioral options witn...

An N-version system can be subdivided into stages for the purpose of forward error recovery through voting after each stage. In the simplest case at each stage the whole system waits for the slowest version to finish before a vote is taken. A better solution is to use a scheme we call Expedient Voting in which the voting takes place as soon as an adequate number of components have finished in a...

The observed correlation between star-formation in central galaxies and in their neighbours (a phenomenon dubbed “galactic conformity”) is in need of a convincing physical explanation. To gain further insight, we use a volume-limited sample of galaxies with redshifts less than 0.03 drawn from the SDSS Data Release 7 to investigate the scale dependence of the effect and how it changes as a funct...

We explored repurposing discarded materials to construct simple, field expedient, solar heating devices capable of heating drinking water to water pasteurization temperatures. Results of different test configurations quickly constructed from junk material indicate important design parameters to include maximizing exposed container surface area and using transparent glass and dark absorbent mate...

research on citation behaviors shows that authors tend to cite the articles of the journals to which they have sent their own articles to be published (target journal). experts in this field have clarified this phenomenon in different ways. the present study follows different explanatory presentations with regard to citing conformity factor. the research has been done in two parts: 1. survey me...

The expedient synthesis of a novel chiral (1S,2S)-N-[(2-isothiocyanato)cyclohexyl] trifluoromethanesulfonamide and its use as a derivatizing auxiliary for the straightforward determination of optical purity of chiral amines are reported.