Online Harassment is the process of sending messages for example in Social Networks to cause psychological harm to a victim. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based approach to detect such messages. Since user generated texts contain noisy language we perform a normalization step first to transform the words into their canonical forms. Additionally, we introduce a person identification module...

Four studies examined children’s (ages 3–10, Total N = 235) naı̈ve theories of social groups, in particular, their expectations about how group memberships constrain social interactions. After introduction to novel groups of people, preschoolers (ages 3–5) reliably expected agents from one group to harm members of the other group (rather than members of their own) but expected agents to help mem...

BACKGROUND Little is known of the importance of social support in the associations between psychological distress and somatic health problems and socio-economic factors among older adults living at home. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the associations of social support, somatic health problems and socio-economic factors with psychological distress. We also examined chan...

Introduction: Carers of individuals with social care needs (including frail elderly people, those at risk of falls and those requiring night sitting), are subject to high levels of carer burden, social isolation and poor psychological outcomes. Carers’ worries and concerns include leaving the individual alone; risks of harm to the care-recipient; or household emergencies in their absence. At pr...