With the advent of web 2.0, social networking sites (SNSs) have mushroomed. Gaining competitive advantage by retaining users in the SNS is an important issue for operators. By conceptualizing stickiness as the state of individuals’ prolong stay on the SNS, the aim of this study is to explore the process of formatting SNS stickiness in the context of Facebook from the perspectives of media richn...

We examined whether 164 heterosexual, married couples' reports of the sanctification of their marriage and their spiritual intimacy predicted their observed behavior across the transition to parenthood, using highly conservative statistical strategies to control for time-invariant factors and time-varying factors (marital love, collaborative communication skills) that could explain away these l...

Article history: Received 12 February 2016 Received in revised form 26 February 2016 Accepted 27 February 2016 Available online 9 March 2016 Machiavellianism is characterised by distrust, manipulation, and a willingness to exploit others. Previous research indicates that Machiavellianism is associated with a preference for short-term sexual relationships and low levels of relationship commitmen...

This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring lived experiences of self-identified gay in eastern Indian city Kolkata. It draws interview narratives thirteen between ages 19 26, living Kolkata, unpack two inter-locking ways which these sexual minority co-construct intimacy within urban space: (a) as verbal non-verbal disclosure (b) embodied in...

INTRODUCTION The two types of stigmatization are social stigma, which includes discrimination, underestimation and distance in various social circumstances and personal stigma, which includes private relation i.e. a contact in person with stigmatized subject. Majority of recent publications has shown gender asymmetry in stigmatization (mostly indicating male predominance in stigmatizing process...

Even though research on dating infidelity has been conducted for years, it still contends with limitations, including over reliance on heterosexual college student samples and a lack of longitudinal research on patterns and longterm effects of infidelity. Still, the limited research reveals that college students use very broad criteria for defining dating infidelity. Effectively, almost any for...