We investigated the possibility that a range of social stimuli capture the attention of 6-month-old infants when in competition with other non-face objects. Infants viewed a series of six-item arrays in which one target item was a face, body part, or animal as their eye movements were recorded. Stimulus arrays were also processed for relative salience of each item in terms of color, luminance, ...

Since internet is an important part of people life and its use increases rapidly, its excessive use leads to internet addiction and ultimately leads to disorders and problems in life. The present study aims to assess the relationship between personality traits and social acceptance level and internet addiction. For this purpose, 360 students of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman were selected ...

We present RIPOSTE, a distributed algorithm for disseminating information (ideas, news, opinions, or trends) in a social network. RIPOSTE ensures that information spreads widely if and only if a large fraction of users find it interesting, and this is done in a “privacy-conscious” manner, namely without revealing the opinion of any individual user. Whenever an information item is received by a ...

The short Expagg scale is a psychometric measure of social representations of expressive and instrumental aggression developed by Campbell, Muncer, McManus and Woodhouse (1999). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to compare the 16-item and 10-item versions of the scales on their goodness of fit to a proposed two-dimensional model. On a sample of 1,000 respondents, the 5-item version sh...

introduction social physique anxiety (spa) and obsessive-compulsive disorders (ocd) are highly correlated and have been considered to be important in understanding eating problems. howeverspa and ocd have not been directly studied with respect to eating problems. thus, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between spa and ocd and measures of eating problems.materials and methods...