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Social media and self-control: The vices and virtues of attention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Self-control, the capacity to resist temptations and pursue longer-term goals over immediate gratifications, is crucial in determining the overall shape of our lives, and thereby in our ability to shape our identities.
Bermúdez, Juan Pablo
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Social interactions dominate speed control in driving natural flocks toward criticality

open access: yes, 2013
Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same direction and at the same speed, but that even the fluctuations around the mean velocity are ...
Bialek, William   +7 more
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Pratiques et discours de l’altérité négative dans le cadre de la crise Argentine

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2002
In Argentina, the increase in poverty which accompanied the neo-liberal cycle has renewed social tensions affecting political representation. The crisis of December 2001 installed social protest, but it also re-launched another strong, more primitive ...
Edgardo Manero
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Assisted Living Institutions as the Basis of Order and a Form of Behaviour Control From the Perspective of Erving Goffman’s Systems Theory

open access: yesStudia Humanistyczne AGH, 2021
Assisted living institutions such as nursing homes were established to answer a vital social need. Such services are needed by the elderly, disabled, and chronically ill.
Teresa Jadwiga Zbyrad
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Interpretation of ambiguous situations: evidence for a dissociation between social and physical threat in Williams syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There is increasing evidence that Williams syndrome (WS) is associated with elevated anxiety that is non-social in nature, including generalised anxiety and fears.
A Ewart   +51 more
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Goal-Directed Intervention on the Social Interaction of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study sought to address social interaction needs of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities through an eight week intervention focusing on social skills at Spaulding Youth Center (SYC), a residential facility in Northeast United States.
Gatlin, Natalie
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A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof   +4 more
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Socialization resources in children and adolescents from Russian speaking migrants in Germany [PDF]

open access: yesПсихологическая наука и образование (2007. Online), 2013
We discuss the problems of Russian-speaking families with children who live in Germany, on the language of communication and identification based on nationality, self-esteem of children and assessment of their qualities by parents, the key events before ...
R.V. Chirkina, S.E. Aruin
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Civil control in local government: theory and practice

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2014
This article discovering in systematic way analysis of the theoretical and practical aspects of civil control in local government, the problems of monitoring the activities of agencies and local government officials, also author proposed areas of ...
О. А. Смоляр
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