Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been rather meager, however, in part because social networks researchers have lacked bibliometric data (e.g., pairwise citation counts from online databases) and citation analysts have lacked sociometric data...

OBJECTIVE To test whether physical activity and sedentary behaviors are associated with perceived and structural neighborhood conditions. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from wave I (1994-1995) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States. SETTING In-home interviews of adolescents and their parents. PARTICIPANTS Thirteen thousand six hundred sixty-eight a...

Self- and other-ratings on the Big Five and a comprehensive inventory of trait affect were obtained from 74 married couples, 136 dating couples, and 279 friendship dyads. With the exception of Surprise, all scales showed significant self-other agreement in all 3 samples, thereby establishing their convergent validity. Consistent with the trait visibility effect, however, the Big Five consistent...

Coincidental re-introductions to established acquaintances suggest that one draws one’s acquaintances from a hypothetical, homogeneous “small world”, not to be confused with an acquaintance chain or an acquaintance volume. The world’s size can be estimated from the coincidences, given an estimate of the acquaintance volume. A typical Freeman–Thompson phonebook test score and a dozen coincidenta...

The role of networks has been growing attention in recent decades explaining political behaviour. Political nexus aspects also get on the agenda studying various resources status attainment. Despite general realization these relevant network implications, some conceptual and measurement issues are still debatable. In this paper, we introduce a new tool for measuring acquaintanceship networks, P...

This article explores the embodied and linguistic practices by which visitors staff members of cafés display recognition mutual familiarity with each other. Based on video data collected in two Italian cafés, we use conversation analysis to examine sequential positions where displays are salient, i.e., initial moments encounter placement order. We demonstrate that individuals rely reciprocal vi...