Social media and self-control: The vices and virtues of attention [PDF]
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
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
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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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The Effects of Perceived Parental Psychological Control on Social Anxiety of Young Adults in Twenties: Internalized Shame and Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness as Mediators [PDF]
Dae-hi Kim, Myung-Shig Kim
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