The rapid spread of COVID-19 has generated a demand for health-related safety equipment. development these emergency products raises several questions, in particular the possible lack concern health, satisfaction, and users addition to immediate against COVID-19. Considering issues, objectives this work are categorize, identify trends, propose strategic approaches alteration individual collecti...

At the start of March, 2020, during Coronavirus pandemic, Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) volunteers organized an emergency helpline. This consisted a limited series consultations by telephone or online, with four free sessions which would not lead to course psychotherapy. All operators carrying out this work gathered regularly in peer-supervision groups where they compared their and ful...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between collective efficacy and contextual performance among university athletes in Japan. We carried out 305 university athletes (201 males, 104 females) from 14 teams in various geographic areas in Japan. The average age of the participants was 19.91 years (SD = 1.01). The kinds of sports were soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, ...

Background: Skin self-examination (SSE) is the primary method for identifying atypical moles. Unfortunately, past research has shown that SSE has low sensitivity. The current study investigates whether collective effort can improve SSE. Collective effort problem solving, or crowdsourcing, uses the intelligence of a group to make decisions; for example, contestants on game shows use collective e...

We explore the meaning and significance of relational identity and relational identification, predicated on the role-relationship between two individuals. We argue that relational identity integrates personand role-based identities and thereby the individual, interpersonal, and collective levels of self; contrast relational identity and relational identification with social identity and social ...

different cultural assumptions of “selfhood” in east and west cultures provide the individuated self-concept in west and collective self-concept in east, which in turn influence how individuals judge their well-being and mental health. while discussing how culture influences formation of self-concept, this paper examines the relationship between cultural pattern of collectivism and self-esteem ...

The role of cognitive apprenticeship has been emphasized in facilitating individual performance in the classroom, but there is limited quantitative research directly linking cognitive behaviors to mentoring relationships and workplace performance. This study investigated the characteristics of mentoring behavior that influence group performance using archival data from 52 different organization...

Multiple mobile robots, or robot collectives have been proposed as solutions to various tasks in which distributed sensing and action are required. Here we consider applying a collective of robots to the paparazzi problem { the problem of providing sensor coverage of a target robot. We demonstrate how the computational task of the collective can be formulated as a global energy minimization tas...

The author refers to the social, economic, individual, and collective dimensions of the relationship between health and disease. He considers that individuals and populations are not equally exposed to protective and risk factors. He highlights the uneven development between nations and Brazilian regions, and communities, as well as discussing the relationship between development, wealth, healt...