Tourism development provides a unique context for studying guanxi in acquaintance society rural areas China. Taking the case of Moon village from perspective guanxi, this study conducted qualitative to analyze structural characteristics semi-acquaintance tourism context. A buffer circle develops when strangers immerse themselves into an acquaintance-based through social interaction, where affec...

With increasing popularity of knowledge based systems carrying out distributed decision-making, respecification of known knowledge classification is inevitable. This contribution highlights an important role of mutual awareness among collaborating agents in a distributed decision support system. Basic properties and use of social knowledge will be introduced and an acquaintance model as a forma...

Today, intercultural first acquaintance meetings are becoming more and more frequent. The aim of this study is to describe, analyze and compare Swedish, Chinese and Swedish-Chinese first acquaintance interactions. Our focus lies on a classification of the topics in monoand intercultural first-time encounters. The analysis is based on 12 arranged face-to-face first acquaintance interactions betw...

Theory and research examining length of acquaintance and consensus among personality judgments have predominantly examined each dimension of personality separately. In L. J. Cronbach's (1955) terminology, this trait-centered approach combines consensus on elevation, differential elevation, and differential accuracy in personality judgments. The current article extends D. A. Kenny's (1991, 1994)...

This paper is aimed at acquaintance-based methodology for reducing communication traffic in multiagent systems. We present a tri-base acquaintance model as a computational model of agents’ mutual awareness focused at reduction of the communication traffic in the system’s critical time. The model contains three separate knowledge structures for representing agents' permanent, semi-permanent and ...

The first aim of this study was to examine which uncertainty reduction strategies members of social network sites used to gain information about a person who they had recently met online. The second aim was to investigate whether and how these uncertainty reduction strategies resulted in social attraction. Drawing on a survey of 704 members of a social network site, we found that respondents ha...

In the current research, we investigated the effects of exposure to sexist humor on male selfreported rape proclivity and perceptions of rape. We also considered the role of type of rape. Male students were exposed to either sexist or non-sexist jokes and either a stranger rape or an acquaintance rape scenario. We found the highest levels of self-reported rape proclivity and victim blame in the...

Sexual aggression is a persistent and prevalent issue in the United States, which often results in a number of psychological, emotional, and physical consequences for victims. The current study examined whether the length of relationship between the victim and perpetrator, level of victim resistance, and observers' gender role attitudes play a role in observers' perceptions of an alleged sexual...