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The supposed synonymity of obsessions and intrusive thoughts is critically examined. It is suggested that there may be distinct differences in the appraisal of classic intrusive thoughts which feature aggressive or sexualised content and the appraisal ...
Christian. Ryan (7645460)
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Discovering social circles in ego networks [PDF]
People's personal social networks are big and cluttered, and currently there is no good way to automatically organize them. Social networking sites allow users to manually categorize their friends into social circles (e.g., “circles” on Google+, and “lists” on Facebook and Twitter).
Julian J. McAuley, Jure Leskovec
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Ego-centered network analysis of ethnic-racial socialization in families
Ethnic-racial socialization refers to the implicit and explicit ways individuals learn about race and ethnicity from family, media, community, and peers (Hughes et al., 2016).
Hannah Smith (3310815) +2 more
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Ego Depletion and Positive Illusions: Does the Construction of Positivity Require Regulatory Resources? [PDF]
Individuals frequently exhibit positive illusions about their own abilities, their possibilities to control their environment, and future expectations. The authors propose that positive illusions require resources of selfcontrol, which is considered to ...
Tobias Greitemeyer (550360) +5 more
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Structural Properties of Ego Networks [PDF]
The structure of real-world social networks in large part determines the evolution of social phenomena, including opinion formation, diffusion of information and influence, and the spread of disease. Globally, network structure is characterized by features such as degree distribution, degree assortativity, and clustering coefficient.
Sidharth Gupta +2 more
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IPIM: An Effective Contribution-Driven Information Propagation Incentive Mechanism
The wide diffusion of information in social networks can be exploited to solve searching-for-a-target (SFT) problems including those of missing individuals.
Fei Chang +6 more
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Defining and measuring probabilistic ego networks [PDF]
AbstractAnalyzing ego networks to investigate local properties and behaviors of individuals is a fundamental task in social network research. In this paper we show that there is not a unique way of defining ego networks when the existence of edges is uncertain, since there are two different ways of defining the neighborhood of a node in such network ...
Amin Kaveh +2 more
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Ego Citation Networks Considered as Domination Networks
sponsorship: The authors thank anonymous reviewers for thoughtful observations. They further thank Leo Egghe (University Hasselt, Belgium) for helpful discussions. This work was supported by NSSFC via 71173154, National Social Sciences Foundation of China. Finally, we also thank Mats Benner, Joshua Eykens and Raf Guns for helpful information.
Liu, Yuxian, Rousseau, Ronald
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Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the ...
Christoph van Dülmen, Andreas Klärner
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Critical size of ego communication networks [PDF]
With the help of information and communication technologies, studies on the overall social networks have been extensively reported recently. However, investigations on the directed Ego Communication Networks (ECNs) remain insufficient, where an ECN stands for a sub network composed of a centralized individual and his/her direct contacts. In this paper,
Qing Wang 0038 +4 more
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