Developed a true-false scale to measure Social Fear, which Meehl argues is a sign of schizotypy, using procedures to maximize reliability and minimize response set bias (N = 910). Interviews with selected Ss (N = 44) confirm that the scale measures social fear, and the scale was found to correlate with previously developed schizotypy scales (N = 252).

Over the past few months we are seeing a large and ever increasing number of Web sites encouraging users to log in with their Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail identity, or personalize their browsing experience through a set of plug-ins that interact with the users’ social profile. Research results suggest that more than two million Web sites have already adopted Facebook’s social plug-ins, and the n...

In developing countries, traditional social obligations often press rich individuals to share their income. In this paper, we posit a “model of social pressure” in which people can sign binding financial agreements among them. These agreements may help to escape social obligations. It turns out that an anonymous and efficient agreement corresponds to one of the most developed and puzzling finan...

Let’s start with the notion of a sign. A sign is something with a meaning and a form of expression, say, a word. Signs don’t have to be linguistic; they may be images, pieces of music, bodily ornamentations, or articles of clothing. In these latter cases, it may be difficult to articulate what is “meant” by the sign, but let us take meaning in a very broad sense, to include especially things li...

Sign Language is at the core of a progressive view of deafness as a culture and of deaf people as a cultural and linguistic minority. An in-depth study of Filipino Sign Language (FSL) is crucial in understanding the Deaf communities and the social issues surrounding them. Computer-aided recognition of sign language can help bridge the gap between signers and non-signers. In this paper, we propo...

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recently, abbasbandy and asady have been proposed a modificationof the distance based approach, namely ``sign distance method''.however, in this paper, it is shown that this method has some drawbacks, i.e.,the result is not consistent with human intuition for specialcases and this method cannot always logically infer rankingorder of the images of the fuzzy numbers. in this paper, wepresent a re...