social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...

is a collection of previously published articles by well-known contributors, edited by Professor Scheff. Articles by social scientists and psychiatrists illustrate various facets of the 'societal approach' to mental illness, which Scheff defines as the study of the community's reaction to mental illness. The study of societal reactions challenges medical concepts of mental illness and seems to ...

Introduction Nature and Formation of Groups Groupthink (Box 7.1) Type of Groups The Minimal Group Paradigm Experiments (Box 7.2) Influence of Group on Individual Behaviour Social Loafing Group Polarisation Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience The Autokinetic Effect (Box 7.3) Group Pressure and Conformity : The Asch Experiment (Box 7.4) Cooperation and Competition Sherif’s Summer Camp Experimen...

Over the past several years, the concept of automaticity of higher cognitive processes has permeated nearly all domains of psychological research. In this review, we highlight insights arising from studies in decision-making, moral judgments, close relationships, emotional processes, face perception and social judgment, motivation and goal pursuit, conformity and behavioral contagion, embodied ...

This paper presents a new approach to predictive analysis for social processes. A key element of the proposed methodology is proper characterization of the interplay between the intrinsic aspects of a social process (e.g., the persuasiveness of an argument) and the social dynamics which is its realization (e.g., the way the argument propagates through a segment of society). We show that this in...

As you walk down a busy street, you happily glance around, momentarily glimpsing dozens if not hundreds of other people. As decades of research have shown, a mere glimpse of these individuals allows you to to place each of them quickly and efficiently into a number of relevant social categories. Most important, it seems, are sex, race, age, and emotion (Calder, Young, Perrett, Etcoff, & Rowland...

Genocide is a series of long-term processes emerging from “states emergency” to convert targeted groups and secure the nation. This paper builds on Critical Studies literature historically contextualize China’s “fusion” policy, narrative emergency officially explaining extra-legal internment camps inter-generational separation in Xinjiang. Although policymakers traditionally frame “one-nation-o...