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GROUP FORMATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIALITY [PDF]
Evolution, 2012 In spite of its intrinsic evolutionary instability, altruistic behavior in social groups is widespread in nature, spanning from organisms endowed with complex cognitive abilities to microbial populations. In this study, we show that if social individuals have an enhanced tendency to form groups and fitness increases with group cohesion, sociality can ...
Silvia De Monte +3 more
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Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2019 Efforts to reduce HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men include increasing awareness and uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Social capital may facilitate engagement in HIV prevention.
Meagan Zarwell +4 more
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Social group optimization (SGO): a new population evolutionary optimization technique
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2016 Social group optimization (SGO), a population-based optimization technique is proposed in this paper. It is inspired from the concept of social behavior of human toward solving a complex problem.
S. Satapathy, Anima Naik
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Village fairs (panigyria), dance and social groups in the village of Faraklita, Kefalonia, Greece [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2012 The aim of this project is to understand the small community of Faraklata, a village on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece, by studying the village fairs (community festivities in honour of individual saints) of Agia Paraskevi and Profiti Ilia and
Kosmatou Varvara
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Group living is widespread among animal species, and comes with a number of costs and benefits associated with foraging, predator avoidance and reproduction. It is largely unknown, however, whether individuals sacrifice exposure to their own preferred or
B. Cooper, Bart Adriaenssens, S. Killen
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Identité constituante, identité constituée
Terrains/Théories, 2015 This article deals with the factors of production and of reproduction of collective identity on the basis of a discussion of theoretical frames pertaining to philosophy, sociology, ethnology and social psychology.
Christian Lazzeri
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On the dynamics of rodent social groups
Behavioural Processes, 2008 A prevailing view is that animal social groups are largely determined by natal philopatry. However, other processes can influence the dynamics of social groups, including emigration of individuals that join pre-existing groups. Given that fitness consequences of living in a group may vary depending on how groups changes, the extent to which alternative
Ebensperger, Luis A., Hayes, Loren D.
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INFORMAL CLASS STRUCTURE IN 8th AND 9th GRADES
Педагогически форум, 2019 The students’ grade is a specific small formal social group. Social psychology studies small groups in various aspects. But this form - the student grade - remains somewhat aside from social scientists’ interest.
Yordanka Arabadzhiyska, Doncho Donev
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CONSIDERAȚII PRIVIND MIJLOACELE DE MANIPULARE PSIHOLOGICĂ UTILIZATE ÎN CADRUL CULTULUI ADNAN [PDF]
Intelligence și Cultura de Securitate, 2022 The present paper thoroughly analyzes the ever-evolving concept of psychological manipulation. Its objective is to assess the risk level of manipulation and its techniques using different actors and to establish a pattern of evolution.
Andrei-Cristian MORARU
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Genetic Diversity and Relatedness of Group-Living Small Mammals on the Mongolian Plateau
Diversity, 2022 Genetic diversity plays an important role in the evolution and adaptation of organisms. Losses of genetic diversity make organisms more vulnerable to climate changes and diseases, reducing the viability of small populations.
Guiming Wang +3 more
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