The aim of the present study was to investigate whether face age and social status information associated with faces have different effects on gaze following behaviour as an index of joint attention. Participants were instructed to perform goaldirected saccades towards a peripheral stationary target, while a task-irrelevant face with averted gaze was presented. Faces of three different age grou...

The relation between individual’s personality and environmental context is a key issue in psychology, recently also in character simulations. This paper contributes to both domains by proposing a socio-cognitive, contextual personality model a new voice in a century old problem of personality, but also an approach to simulating groups of more humanlike agents. After analyzing the influence of p...

Transitivity in trust is very often considered as a quite simple property, trivially inferable from the classical transitivity defined in mathematics, logic, or grammar. In fact the complexity of the trust notion suggests evaluating the relationships with the transitivity in a more adequate way. In this paper, starting from a socio-cognitive model of trust, we analyze the different aspects and ...

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of highand low-skilled natives. Employing an instrumental variable strategy and utiliz...

This study looks at how potential for resilient low-carbon solutions can be understood and enhanced in the diverse environmental, economic and socio-political contexts in which actual scenarios of energy needs and diverse development pathways take shape. It discusses socio-technical transition approaches to assist implementation of a biogas digester system. This will replace fuelwood use in the...

The insular cortex (IC) is considered a rich hub for context-sensitive emotions/social cognition. Patients with focal IC stroke provide unique opportunities to study socio-emotional processes. Nevertheless, Couto et al. (2013b) have recently reported controversial results regarding IC involvement in emotion and social cognition. Similarly, patients with similar lesions show high functional vari...

Many studies on adaptation to the impacts of climate change have been undertaken globally since passing United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. This is because UNFCCC recognizes that one main challenges sustainable development. However, many focused negative and strategies thereto. Despite fact known both positive impacts, benefiting from them not given sufficie...

Electronic workflow facilitates transactions between systems and enterprises. In this paper we employ socio-cognitive theory and technologies in the context of an agent-based workflow engine to facilitate partner selection and build trust among electronic workflow participants. These elements form useful and effective additions to the workflow context, by capturing business policy aspects. We p...

This paper describes research in progress that is investigating situational trust in e-commerce transactions. Beginning with a typology of conceptions of trust, the concept of situational trust is singled out as being particularly interesting. We then propose a socio-technical approach to the study of trust in e-commerce, and describe a two stage study using multiple methods to explore the form...

Employing media richness theory, a model is developed to open the black box surrounding the impact of computer-mediated communication systems on decision quality. The effects on decision quality of two important communication system factors, cue multiplicity and feedback immediacy, are examined in light of three important mediating constructs: social perceptions, message clarity, and ability to...