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One key aspect of threat in terrorists' language is incitement to violence. Contributing to a fuller understanding of how terrorists use language to encourage people to join their cause, this article examines the role of evaluative language in incitement strategies used by a far-rightist to align with and alienate particular social groups. The Affiliation framework (Knight 2010a; Zappavigna 2011; Etaywe & Zappavigna 2021; Etaywe 2022a), as grounded in systemic functional linguistics, is used to understand how values and social bonds are leveraged in the process of incitement, as explored in a manifesto published online by Brenton Tarrant, preceding his 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand. The findings reveal two main affiliation strategies used for incitement: communion (forging solidarity and alignments) and alienation. These strategies function to construct opposing social groups in discourse, with the condemned groups positioned as a threat, hostility legitimated as morally reasonable, and violence as warranted. (Far-right extremism, incitement, hate crimes, affiliation, morality of terrorism, forensic linguistics, conspiracy theory discourse) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heeding the rising popularity of virtual influencers on social media, many established brands are beginning to collaborate with them. Although virtual influencers are perceived as novel and exciting, their effectiveness in different areas of consumer behavior has not been examined. While previous research has compared several attributes of virtual and human influencers, our research is specifically motivated to answer: how can marketers increase the effectiveness of virtual influencers in promoting prosocial causes? Across four experiments employing different prosocial contexts, we compared the effectiveness of virtual and human influencers in increasing consumers' prosocial intentions and behaviors. Findings suggest that although human influencers are more persuasive in promoting prosocial behaviors, this effect only occurs when a virtual influencer is perceived as a standalone influencer (i.e., not affiliated with a brand). Overall, our results imply that marketers can substantially increase the effectiveness of virtual influencers by making the cues of brand affiliation salient in influencers' posts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facial hair is a sexually dimorphic trait with potential evolutionary and sociocultural functions. Bearded men are perceived as dominant, aggressive, and masculine, but also as having better parenting skills. Men may intentionally manage the amount and shape of their facial hair as a part of their self-promotion strategy; however, facial hair management entails costs in terms of time, effort, and money. We explored psychological factors associated with facial hair enhancement motivation among men. A total of 414 men (aged 18–40 years) reported the current amount of their facial hair along with their facial hair enhancement motivations, gender role stress, intrasexual competitiveness, and fundamental social motives. Willingness to care for facial hair was associated with the amount of facial hair men claimed to have and correlated with the fundamental social motives of affiliation and social status, intrasexual competition, and gender role stress. Therefore, facial hair enhancement may be regarded as a self-presentation strategy aimed at acquiring a beneficial position in social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of sport events is closely related to volunteer dedication. Sport event organisations must recognise volunteers’ needs and motivate and retain loyal volunteers. However, the approach to motivate sport event volunteers and the role of consistent values, beliefs, and affiliation needs in guiding volunteers’ performance in event duties remain unexplored. This study explored the role of organisational environmental factors in influencing volunteers’ engagement, sense of pride, and intent to continue volunteering. A theoretical model was constructed to verify their inner relations by incorporating person – environment fit, social exchange, and social identity theories. Data were collected from 452 volunteers who participated in two marathon races in China and analysed using structural equation modelling with SmartPLS 4.0. The findings show that perceived organisational support has a positive impact on individual – organisation value congruence and volunteer engagement, thus jointly boosting volunteers’ sense of pride and intent. These findings expand theoretical understanding on the psychological mechanisms of volunteer sport events and optimising volunteer management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the intersection of human psychology and advanced technology, focusing on how intelligent and emotive technology influences human behavior and emotional intelligence, and in the process, might impact our ability to show and feel empathy. Based in Alfred Adler's theory of human motivation, we examine how feelings of inferiority -- vulnerability, powerlessness, perfectibility, and the need for affiliation -- drive our increasing dependence on technology. The human tendency to treat inanimate objects as animate is heightened by the sophisticated communication capabilities of Generative AI (Gen AI), altering our interpersonal dynamics and communication signals. We analyze how this shift impacts empathy, self-centeredness, and impatience, suggesting a need for conscious awareness of technology's limitations to preserve genuine human connections. By conducting a "technology dependency audit," we encourage individuals to reflect on the extent to which their lives are mediated by technology. Ultimately, the paper argues for reclaiming our emotional and practical autonomy from technology to maintain authentic human relationships and emotional well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the research is to investigate the place of tribal structure in the perception of the people living there in Van province and its effect on political preferences. Since associations affiliated with tribes have been opened in Van in recent years and their relations with the political institution have intensified as a result of the tribal members who used to reside in the villages now residing in the center of Van, it has become important to conduct a study based on field research in the relevant field. After reading the literature related to the research, the research is sahped through the questions "What is the approach to the tribal structure in Van today and what is its effect on voting preferences?". The research is a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and using grounded theory design. The data of the research was collected through interviews with people living in Van province and its districts and political party officials in the center of Van. The data of the research were analyzed in the context of the principles of grounded theory. As a result of the study, it was determined that the tribal structure is a visible phenomenon in Van, but its effect on political preferences is low. Some of the people interviewed for the research said that tribal affiliation is necessary in Van; Some of them stated that there is no need for such a affiliation today. Thus, a situation of coexistence of conflicting statements emerged in the findings obtained during the interviews. Based on this, the concept of dialectics of belonging was reached in the context of Anselm Strauss and Barney Glaser's approaches to grounded theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crowdfunding has emerged as a mechanism to raise funds for entrepreneurial ideas. On crowdfunding platforms, backers (i.e., individuals who fund ideas) jointly fund the same idea, leading to affiliations, or overlaps, within the community. The authors find that while an increase in the total number of backers may positively affect funding behavior, the resulting affiliations affect funding negatively. They reason that when affiliated others fund a new idea, individuals may feel less of a need to fund, a process known as "vicarious moral licensing." Drawing on data collected from 2,021 ideas on a prominent crowdfunding platform, the authors show that prior affiliation among backers negatively affects an idea's funding amount and eventual funding success. Creator engagement (i.e., idea description and updates) and backer engagement (i.e., Facebook shares) moderate this negative effect. The effect of affiliation is robust across several instrumental variables, model specifications, measures of affiliation, and multiple crowdfunding outcomes. Results from three experiments, a survey, and interviews with backers support the negative effect of affiliation and show that it can be explained by vicarious moral licensing. The authors develop actionable insights for creators to mitigate the negative effects of affiliation with the language used in idea descriptions and updates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frontline service employees (FSEs)' customer-oriented boundary spanning behaviors (COBSBs) are prosocial behaviors adapted to the job requirements and work environment of customer service personnel. It is a significant strategic imperative for achieving excellent performance in the tourism organizations. Building on social exchange theory, this study uncovered that inclusive leadership motivates FSEs' COBSBs. Using hierarchical multiple regression analysis with time-lagged data, we find that inclusive leadership promotes FSEs' COBSBs by enhancing their felt obligations. Moreover, the need for affiliation enhances the direct effect that inclusive leadership has on felt obligations and its indirect effect on FSEs' COBSBs via felt obligations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the link between the Big Five personality traits and self-efficacy for teamwork, positioning manifest needs as intervening variables. The primary purpose of the analyses is to further develop some of the key variables contributing to team performance. Design/methodology/approach: Relationships were tested with conditional process analysis. The sample includes 315 students from a large university. Likert measures were used to operationalize survey items, which are based on existing scales in the literature. Findings: Each of the Big Five dimensions are related to teamwork self-efficacy (TSE), with manifest needs having significant mediating effects. For example, conscientiousness displayed a positive relationship to TSE, with both the need for affiliation and the need for power acting as significant intervening variables. Such relationships for each personality dimension are discussed fully in the paper. Practical implications: High functioning teams need members who share a level of self-efficacy for engaging in teamwork. Leaders who must form their teams may find it useful to consider TSE, and the individual attributes that contribute to this important construct. The authors' examination of the roles of both personality and manifest needs should offer some essential tools for this objective. Originality/value: This paper contributes to our understanding of the relationship between personality and TSE by investigating manifest needs as process variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online Innovation Community (OIC) serves as a virtual space for users to exchange products and services, and share knowledge and information. Previous studies have indicated that community climate is an important factor affecting users' value co-creation behavior, however, the influencing process has not been clearly revealed from the perspective of motivation. In this study, we explored the relationship between online innovation community climate (supportive climate and controlling climate), user motivation and value co-creation behavior (user's participation behavior and user's citizenship behavior) based on the SOR model. The study sample included 29,835 pieces of information from 3,315 users in 14 product sections of the OnePlus Community which were analyzed with Mplus8.1. The findings revealed that: (1) The supportive climate had a positive impact on user's citizenship behavior(β = 0.042), while the controlling climate exerted a significant positive impact on user's citizenship behavior (β = 0.078) and user's participation behavior(β = 0.099); (2) The need for achievement played a suppressing effect between community climate and user's participation behavior, the need for power played a suppressing effect between supportive climate and user's value co-creation behavior, and the need for affiliation played a mediating role between supportive climate and user's citizenship behavior (β = 0.010) and user's participation behavior(β = 0.006); (3) Community trust positively moderated the relationship between the need for achievement and user's participation behavior(β = 0.058) as well as between the need for power and user's participation behavior(β = 0.043). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although implicit motives are well established, coding for implicit motives has been a time-consuming and difficult manual process. This study (i) evaluates automated motive coding schemes for Need for Achievement, Need for Affiliation, and Need for Power, (ii) assesses the relationship between these three motives and crisis initiation, and (iii) assesses the explanatory power of other psychological variables for crisis behavior. The results establish the convergent validity of the Need for Achievement and Need for Power coding schemes with hand coding and support findings of a significant relationship between Need for Power and crisis behavior. A unit increase in Need for Power doubles the probability that a leader will initiate a crisis. Even stronger models were obtained by including other previously studied psychological variables. The scope of the dataset (154 leaders across a diverse set of 93 countries) lends weight to the findings and provides many opportunities for additional research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children's home-packed lunches to school reflect family's culinary cultures, social locations, and unique food norms. At Canadian elementary schools, children of Asian heritage sometimes experience "lunchbox shaming" – feeling embarrassed for bringing foods that are seen deviant from dominant food norms. This study explored the recollections of school lunchtime by 25 young adults (aged 17–25 years) from three largest Asian ethnocultural groups (Chinese, Indian, and Filipino) in Toronto, Canada. Two parents of the participants also joined follow-up interviews to provide their insights. Our analysis focused on four layers of meanings at micro-level (personal experiences and emotions), meso-level (family food practices, school food environment), macro-level (socio-historical discourses), and interactional-level (researchers' positionalities). Many participants recalled painful experiences being teased by classmates of their "stinky" lunch, throwing away homemade lunches, or asking parents to pack "normal" lunches to fit in. Conversely, a few shared positive memories of their lunches being praised and felt proud of their culinary heritage. Many reportedly felt a need to balance affiliation to both their home and school food cultures while growing up in Canada. We conclude by discussing the implications of the study findings for the ongoing debate on Canada's national school food program and food literacy education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This current era of digitalization has changed the psychology of consumers significantly for the past one decade. Consumers have started using the digital media for various purposes including personal and official reasons. People get some kind of motivation by using the digital media usage. McClelland’s need theory mentions the motivational factors are related to need for achievement, need for affiliation and need for power. Moreover the online purchase behaviour in India has increased very hugely in the past one decade. This increase in the online purchase may be due to the increased digital media usage of the consumers. This study focuses on the consumer motivation towards the digital media usage and online purchase behaviour. This study was carried out in the 11 municipal corporations of Tamilnadu state of India. The findings of the study show that consumer’s motivation towards digital media usage has a significant positive effect on online purchase behaviour. Based on the findings, implications for the marketers have been suggested in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on my journey conducting online ethnography through Iraqi, Saudi, Kuwaiti and Yemeni feminist Twitters as an Iraqi researcher residing in the United Kingdom. It examines the intersection of online ethnography and feminist activism, emphasising the essential role of long-term immersion in social media spaces as an activist prior to undertaking this type of research. I gained crucial insights into the complexity, fluidity and emotional dynamics of online spaces and relationships through years of visible presence and engagement with other activists before conducting my ethnography. While some level of intimacy and affiliation with feminist activists existed, the absence of offline encounters posed challenges to forging friendships; however, this difficulty served as a catalyst for developing an ethical method to navigate relationships with participants and address the limitations of a friendship-based approach. In this article, I propose an alternative approach centred around a fellowship affiliation, approaching other activists as 'fellows' in the two Arabic senses of zamāla and rifqa (peer- and comrade-driven) relationships. This shift in the researcher–participant relationship moves away from the intense and demanding nature of the ṣadāqah (friendship) relationship. In doing so, it offers a politically powerful stance and a much-needed critical space for constructive debate while maintaining mutual respect and a shared commitment to the cause. The fellowship-based method necessitates activist transparency and critical allyship dedicated to collaboration and unconventional methods of knowledge co-production, promising solidarity and transcending differences and disagreements. Nonetheless, achieving this can, at times, be challenging. While acknowledging the limitations of the approach, the article recognises that moments of silence or distance can also arise from a sense of activist responsibility and commitment to protecting others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research investigates how emotional displays shape reactions to ingroup and outgroup members when people are reminded of death. We hypothesized that under mortality salience, emotions that signal social distance promote worldview defense (i.e., increased ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation), whereas emotions that signal affiliation promote affiliation need (i.e., reduced ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation). In three studies, participants viewed emotional displays of ingroup and/or outgroup members after a mortality salience or control manipulation. Results revealed that under mortality salience, anger increased ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation (Study 1), enhanced perceived overlap with the ingroup (Study 3), and increased positive facial behavior to ingroup displays—measured via the Facial Action Coding System (Studies 1 and 2) and electromyography of the zygomaticus major muscle (Study 3). In contrast, happiness decreased ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation (Study 2), and increased positive facial behavior towards outgroup members (Study 3). The findings suggest that, in times of threat, emotional displays can determine whether people move away from unfamiliar others or try to form as many friendly relations as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This econometric analysis investigates the nexus between household factors and domestic violence. By considering diverse variables encompassing mood, depression, health consciousness, social media engagement, household chores, density, and religious affiliation, the study aims to comprehend the underlying dynamics influencing domestic violence. Methods: Employing econometric techniques, this study examined a range of household-related variables for their potential associations with levels of violence within households. Data on mood, depression, health consciousness, social media usage, household chores, density, and religious affiliation were collected and subjected to rigorous statistical analysis. Results: The findings of this study unveil notable relationships between the aforementioned variables and levels of violence within households. Positive mood emerges as a mitigating factor, displaying a negative correlation with violence. Conversely, depression positively correlates with violence, indicating an elevated propensity for conflict. Increased health consciousness is linked with diminished violence, while engagement with social media demonstrates a moderating influence. Reduction in the time allocated to household chores corresponds with lower violence levels. Household density, however, exhibits a positive association with violence. The effects of religious affiliation on violence manifest diversely, contingent upon household position and gender. Discussion: The outcomes of this research offer critical insights for policymakers and practitioners working on formulating strategies for preventing and intervening in instances of domestic violence. The findings emphasize the importance of considering various household factors when designing effective interventions. Strategies to bolster positive mood, alleviate depression, encourage health consciousness, and regulate social media use could potentially contribute to reducing domestic violence. Additionally, the nuanced role of religious affiliation underscores the need for tailored approaches based on household dynamics, positioning, and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing theories exploring how companies interact with the law stop short of unveiling whether and why companies can differentially pursue, interact with, and benefit from a particular legal environment. We theorize that companies can use social structures—shared educational and professional affiliations—between lawyers and judges to strategically pursue specific legal jurisdictions, influence judges' discretion, and ultimately reap different legal outcomes from the same legal environment. Using data on such affiliations between lawyers and federal judges, we examine companies' choice of U.S. federal district courts and their legal outcomes in patent infringement litigation from 1990 to 2013. Our results reveal that companies strategically pursue courts in which their lawyers have past educational or professional affiliations with the courts' judges. If a desired judge is assigned to the case, a company leverages its lawyers' social structures to tailor any legal communication to match that judge's style. While such behavior results in a higher likelihood of winning a lawsuit, it also creates an inherent risk. In stacking their legal teams with lawyers who have connections to judges, companies often shortchange the human capital—lawyers' skillsets—required to win a case, which adversely affects legal outcomes if the desired judge is not assigned to the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The quantity of social relationships and social interactions is positively related to well‐being, but the underlying role of personality dispositions in these associations is unclear. The present study investigated whether social motives for affiliation and intimacy moderate associations of personal networks with well‐being. Method: We analyzed data from N = 389 individuals living alone (aged 35–60 years) who provided self‐reports of social motives and well‐being, and who completed an ego‐centered social network task. A subsample of N = 331 individuals participated in a social network diary with daily questions about social interactions within their personal networks. Results: Overall, we found little support for moderations. Individuals higher in affiliation felt less lonely than individuals lower in affiliation when having more frequent in‐person contact. Multilevel analyses of the diary data revealed that highly affiliative individuals reported being more satisfied than individuals lower in affiliation when having more daily social interactions than usual. No moderations were found in the context of intimacy. Discussion: Findings suggest that, especially in the context of daily social encounters, affiliation might moderate associations of social interaction quantity with well‐being. Implications for future research on personality–relationship dynamics in personal networks and daily social interactions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: As individuals enter adolescence, their preference for solitude (PFS) increases with age, which may be a result of balancing the need for social affiliation and the need for autonomy and independence. These needs are shaped by the social-cultural contexts, and thus the growth rate of PFS may differ across social-cultural contexts. This study examined to what extent the developmental trajectory of PFS differed between urban and rural Chinese adolescents. Methods: Adolescents in urban (n = 326,168 boys, Mage =12.00 years, SD = 0.61) and rural (n = 449, 198 boys, Mage =11.82 years, SD = 0.58) regions in China reported their PFS and shyness each year from Grade 6 to Grade 8. Longitudinal measurement invariance of PFS was established between the urban and rural samples. Location and gender differences in the intercept and the slope of PFS were examined using a latent growth model, while controlling for shyness at each time point. Results: The analyses revealed that adolescents in both urban and rural regions showed an increasing trajectory of PFS. Although urban and rural adolescents did not differ in the initial level of PFS at Grade 6, urban adolescents' PFS increased faster than that of the rural adolescents. The urban-rural difference in the slope of PFS remained significant after controlling for the associations between the intercept and the slope of PFS and shyness at each time point. In addition, in the rural region, boys showed a faster increase of PFS than girls, yet gender differences in the initial level of PFS and the developmental trajectory in the urban region were nonsignificant. Discussion: The findings reveal a normative increasing trend of PFS during early adolescence and faster increase for urban than rural adolescents. To promote adolescents' psychological well-being, parents, teachers and practitioners need to help adolescents establish a good balance between social interaction and solitude. When deciding what is a good balance, it is important to consider the social-cultural context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to examine the women micro-entrepreneurs' network with key stakeholders in Maharashtra region of India. Sometimes networking events may not result in fruitful outcomes because of lack of quality advice and information shared by the stakeholders. Researchers have therefore shown interest in understanding the role of network formation among women micro-entrepreneurs. Therefore, the study explores the information and advice network regarding the frequency and usefulness of contact and its effect on entrepreneurial satisfaction. The paper also examines the personality characteristics and their direct and indirect effects on networks and the satisfaction of entrepreneurs. The data were collected during the period January-March 2022. Survey method was used to collect 219 responses. The survey was conducted among women entrepreneurs having micro and small entrepreneurial ventures. The results showed that family, friends, media and social media are important stakeholders for women entrepreneurs for both information and advice, and locus of control and need for affiliation have a direct effect. However, resilience indirectly affected satisfaction, implying that resilience is imperative in the absence of strong networks. The study's findings show the direction for developing skills to improve one's network with close ties, and to build stronger connections using digital communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pain is rarely suffered alone. In contemporary online contexts, publicly shared pain can command the collective attention of hundreds, even millions of people. We sought to explore the possibility that collectively attending to others' pain promotes affiliation among those with whom it is attended online and identify the mechanisms that mediate these effects. Across two experimental studies, utilizing independent group designs, physically dispersed undergraduate students attended to real‐world videos depicting either physical, social, or no‐pain online. In Study 1 (N = 74, 66.22% female, Mage = 25.31 years, SDage = 6.81 years), we found evidence for the phenomenon of pain collectively attended to online, with online videos depicting physical and social pain eliciting stronger perceptions of collective attention than the non‐painful online video. In Study 2 (Time 1: N = 185, 75.14% female, Mage = 22.62 years, SDage = 7.44 years; Time 2: N = 91, 72.53% female, Mage = 23.32, SDage = 8.19), we subsequently found collectively attending to others' physical and social pain online indirectly promoted cohesion, interpersonal closeness, and desire to affiliate among participants through perceived emotional synchrony. This pattern of indirect effects was found immediately after collective attention to painful online content (Time 1) and at 1‐week follow‐up (Time 2). Although preliminary, our findings increase practical understanding of how shared pain can be harnessed to bond physically dispersed individuals together online, the implications of which we discuss in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the concept of indirect reciprocity and its potential to foster large-scale cooperation. The authors present a theoretical model in which agents interact across two stages, choosing actions based on cooperation with their own group or with other groups. The authors conclude that indirect reciprocity alone is insufficient for stabilizing large-scale human cooperation. However, new research suggests that when interactions across group boundaries become possible, indirect reciprocity can promote large-scale cooperation. The article also addresses the questions of whether people actually implement conditional reputation strategies when interacting with out-group members and to what degree belonging to a group restricts interaction frequency with out-group members. The research shows that people do provide aid to both in-group and out-group members and that intergroup cooperation can be mutually reinforced. The article emphasizes that belonging to a group does not prevent interactions with out-group members and that the likelihood of such interactions increases with larger group sizes and growing social mobility. Overall, the findings suggest that indirect reciprocity can foster large-scale cooperation and individuals use it to shift others' behavior from in-group to intergroup cooperation. [Extracted from the article]

This Research aims is to analyze and describe the form of Psychogenic needs of affection the needs of affection of the main character in "Warm Bodies" novel by Isaac Marion. In this research, researcher uses the Needs of Affection theory of Henry Murray. In the research design, researcher uses descriptive qualitative research, the primarily data is the Novel Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion which was published in 2011. The researcher uses Nonparticipatory observation as method of collecting the data. The researcher uses categorization data as the method of analyzing data. The researcher found the data all form the main character of the novel needs of affection based on experienced by main characters which are involved R and Julie. There are form of Psychogenic needs of affection such as need of affiliation found 3 data, need of rejection found 2 data, need of succorance found 2 data, need of nurturance 2 data and need of play found 1 data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Those working in higher education have a vested interest in understanding how outdoor recreation activities facilitate happiness in students, especially with student well-being at an all-time low. The following study compares indoor versus outdoor recreation activities within the context of the DRAMMA model of leisure engagement and subjective well-being, which includes the psychological mechanisms of meaning, mastery, detachmentrecovery, autonomy, and affiliation. In addition, the role of leisure satisfaction is considered as part of the model. Findings indicated a significant difference in the subjective well-being score between outdoor and indoor recreation participants and a higher score in leisure satisfaction for outdoor than indoor recreation participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exploring callous-unemotional (CU) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits during adolescence is crucial due to its role in the emergence of personality pathologies. Recent research highlights threat sensitivity and social affiliation as fundamental factors in the etiology of broader interpersonal dysfunctions in personality disorders. Further studies are needed to explore the contributions of these factors to CU and BPD traits, while considering specific parental risk factors within distinct cultural contexts. This study examines the effects of threat sensitivity, social affiliation, and left-behind experience (LBE) on CU and BPD traits in 563 Chinese adolescents. We found that the interaction between threat sensitivity and social affiliation significantly predicts CU traits in adolescents without LBE, where reduced social affiliation amplifies the association between low threat sensitivity and CU traits. Conversely, LBE and a strong need for social affiliation intensify the association between increased threat sensitivity and BPD traits. These findings highlight the specific contributions of dispositional factors to CU and BPD traits, offering insights into their divergent pathways. By elucidating the nuanced interplay of dispositional and parental risk factors, this study enhances our understanding of the predictors of adolescent personality disorders and emphasizes the need for targeted interventions tailored to these dynamics. • Interplay of dispositions predicts callous-unemotional (CU) and borderline traits. • Left-behind experience (LBE) moderates these interaction effects. • Low affiliation enhances fearlessness's effect on non-LBE adolescent CU traits. • LBE and high affiliation amplifies threat sensitivity's effect on borderline traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a correction notice for an article titled "Longitudinal dynamic single-cell mass cytometry analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in COVID-19 patients within 6 months after viral RNA clearance." The correction involves updating the first affiliation of the authors to the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, in Hangzhou, China. The original article has been corrected, and the publisher remains neutral regarding jurisdictional claims and institutional affiliations. [Extracted from the article]

This correction notice is for an article titled "TgVax452, an epitope-based candidate vaccine targeting Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite-specific SAG1-related sequence (SRS) proteins: immunoinformatics, structural simulations and experimental evidence-based approaches" published in BMC Infectious Diseases. The correction addresses a misunderstanding in proof corrections and provides the correct affiliations for the authors. The original article has been corrected. Springer Nature, the publisher, remains neutral regarding jurisdictional claims and institutional affiliations. The authors of the article are Hamidreza Majidiani, Mohammad M. Pourseif, Bahareh Kordi, Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi, and Alireza Najafi. [Extracted from the article]

This article investigates the value of business format franchising and how it is changing in response to a large increase in consumer information provided by online reputation mechanisms. Theory has suggested that much of the value of chain affiliation to firms comes from the ability of chain partners to use the same name, imagery, logo, and marketing to create a common brand reputation and signal specific qualities in settings with asymmetric information between buyers and sellers. As more information becomes available, consumers should rely less on branding for quality signals, and firms' ability to extend reputations across heterogeneous outlets should decrease. To examine this empirically, the author combines a large panel of hotel revenues with millions of online reviews from multiple platforms. Chain-affiliated hotels earn substantially higher revenues than equivalent independent hotels, but this premium has declined by over 50% from 2000 to 2015. This can be largely attributed to an increase in online reputation mechanisms, and this effect is largest for low-quality and small-market firms. Measures of the information content of online reviews show that as information has increased, independent hotel revenue has grown substantially more than chain hotel revenue. This result should be viewed as descriptive, with attempts to come to near causality including the use of machine learning to derive latent dimensions of firm quality from the text of online reviews. Finally, the correlation between firm revenue and chain-wide reputation is decreasing, whereas the correlation with individual hotel reputation is increasing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research indicates that identity development is impacted by implicit motives. Because research in non-Western cultures is scarce, a sample from Zambia is examined; moreover, because previous research has exclusively focused on communal motives (n Affiliation), agentic motives (n Power) are taken into account additionally. We hypothesized that implicit motives relate to identity development only when adolescents report positive parenting experiences. Adolescents (N = 407) provided information on implicit motives, perceived parenting quality, and identity in interpersonal and ideological domains. Results indicate that adolescents with positive parenting experiences make more motive-congruent identity commitments and reconsider them less (at least in the interpersonal domain). Findings open up new questions about the universality of the influence of implicit motives on identity development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The view that allegiance to characters is a matter of general moral assessment, as developed by Carroll (1984) and Smith (1995) , has the resources to respond to counter-examples proposed in the literature, including appeals to anti-heroes, rough heroes and other 'reprehensible characters' that garner our allegiance. It can even admit non-moral factors as subterranean influences on moral assessment. Nevertheless, the view requires that the characters we most favour are those with the highest moral standing, and this does not seem to be true of the character arc story (Kelly, 2020). Rather, the mixture of good and bad impulses in the protagonist is set off by the unalloyed moral example of the moral centre, a supporting character whose fate may barely interest us. We conclude that narrative theory is better served by allowing the moral hierarchy of a story to differ from the rank order of its allegiances, and hence that audience affiliation is not simply a matter of moral assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several theories propose that narcissism is rooted in affective contingencies. Given narcissists' focus on power, these contingencies should be strong in the power domain but not in the affiliation domain. We systematically investigated narcissists' contingencies and explored whether these contingencies might link narcissism to social behavior. In a multimethod longitudinal study, we assessed unidimensional narcissism levels as well as two main narcissistic strategies: Admiration and rivalry. We measured 209 participants' affective contingencies (i.e., affective responses to satisfying and frustrating experiences of power and affiliation) via self-reports (n = 207) and facial electromyography (fEMG, n = 201). In a 1-year follow-up, we observed participants' power- and affiliation-related behaviors in the laboratory (valid n = 123). Results indicated that narcissism was linked to increased affective reactivity to power, and this pattern was present for both admiration and rivalry. Narcissism was unrelated to affective reactivity to affiliation, with an important exception: Individuals with higher levels of narcissistic rivalry exhibited decreased reactivity toward satisfactions and increased reactivity toward frustrations of affiliation. Results were more robust for self-reported than for fEMG-indexed reactivity. Although overall narcissism and narcissistic admiration were related to power-related behaviors 1 year later, affective contingencies did not generally account for these links. These findings inform why narcissists have a relatively strong power motive and why some narcissists high in rivalry have a relatively weak affiliation motive. More broadly, these findings provide insight into the affective contingencies underlying personality traits and call for research on the contexts in which these contingencies guide behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Laughter conveys important information that supports social communication and bonding. Research suggests that unique acoustic properties distinguish laughter that promotes affiliation from laughter that conveys dominance, but little is known about potential individual differences in laughter interpretation or contagion based on these specified social functions of laughter. Psychopathy is associated with both affiliative deficits (e.g., lack of empathy and impaired social bonding) and behaviors that assert social dominance (e.g., manipulativeness). Thus, relationships between psychopathic traits and impaired laughter interpretation or contagion could give insight into etiological pathways to psychopathy. Method: In two studies conducted with four independent samples (total N = 770), participants categorized laughter clips that varied in the degree of affiliation or dominance conveyed. Results: Participants overall drew rich and accurate social inferences from dominant and affiliative laughter and modulated their interest in joining in with laughter based on the type and degree of affiliation and dominance conveyed. However, individuals higher in psychopathic traits failed to distinguish between laughter types and did not modulate their level of engagement based on laughter features. Conclusions: The results suggest a potential mechanism that underlies the broader social difficulties associated with psychopathic traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is concerned with the relationship between the job motivational and preference profile of individuals and their engagement in safety behaviours. Studies have investigated personality traits but not motive and value correlates of risk-related behaviour. More than 25,000 Americans completed a questionnaire on safety-related competencies in the workplace that measured six different, but related, safety-related traits. They also completed a motivational measure of preferences and values used extensively in personnel assessment and selection. The six safety dimensions yielded two factors labelled observant and resilient that, along with the total score, were the criterion variables. Step-wise regressions indicated that those with high needs for affiliation, hedonism and recognition tended to be less safety conscious. The two different factors also showed a different pattern of demographic and motivational correlates. Problems of method invariance are discussed, as well the role of job motivation individual differences in safety-related traits and competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Marketplaces have been central to civilization, as they foster trade and social life. Marketplaces are built environment (BE) interventions which, when looked at through a historical lens, reflect inequalities and subsequent deployment by people of color (POC). While the resurgence of farmers' markets is a positive stride towards food justice over the past three decades, studies show that the disparities of class inequality and geographic constraints are key limitations to access for vulnerable populations. The fundamental question of this paper is, how can farmers' markets use data to strategize and plan in ways that better serve their communities and give them more control? Design/methodology/approach: This paper brings together applied methods in marketplace research and spatial analytical processes geographic information systems (GISs) to inform the research questions through an intersectional model of analysis. Data analysis merges local data collected from the market organization using the Farm 2 Facts toolkit and publicly available data to conduct geospatial analysis of the markets and their surrounding context. Two case studies are explored in Cotati, CA, and Brownsville, TX. Findings: Despite the similarities and nuances of the two case studies, the data show that both markets serve a narrow pool of customers extended a couple of miles from the market. (1) The markets are not serving communities with the most need. (2) Farmers' markets need to increase affiliation with POC. (3) Farmers' market locations can impact control over one's environment. Originality/value: The research builds of Nussbaum's capabilities model and explores three capabilities that are in line with what markets (1) bodily health, (2) affiliation and perhaps most significantly (3) control over one's own environment. Farmers' market location can impact control over one's environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the extent to which current leaders from each of the three sectors (public, private, and nonprofit) have had meaningful cross-sector experience either through full-time employment or through service on boards/commissions or other forms of affiliation. Almost half of all leaders profiled had at least one multisector affiliation and about 15% had four or more. It also explores the costs and benefits of such experiences to them and their organization. Almost every leader interviewed described a logical, but serendipitous path that created a unique, unforeseeable, and often very rewarding set of opportunities and experiences. Their profiles also suggest the emergence of a new career path in which leaders garner developmentally rich, career-accelerating experiences, often in parallel, by virtue of part-time cross-sector affiliations in addition to traditional employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The principles of "interpersonal complementarity" posit that one person's behavior tends to evoke reactions from others that are similar with regard to affiliation, but dissimilar with regard to status (Carson, 1969). Empirical support for these assumptions has been mixed, especially with regard to the status dimension. The present study investigated influences of level of observation (behaviors vs. traits), personality, and instructional set on complementarity. Previously unacquainted participants (N = 182) were randomly assigned to dyads who engaged in videotaped discussions with either a cooperative or a competitive framing. Their behaviors were rated every 10 s in terms of affiliation and status. We used a multilevel modeling approach that enables powerful omnibus tests of core tenets of interpersonal theory, including previously overlooked influences of person and situation, as well as time-lags. Interpersonal complementarity was found for both affiliation and status. It was highest for simultaneous behaviors, (i.e., occurring within the same 10-s interval), but for status we also found lagged effects being anticomplementary. Complementarity was also moderately predicted by some personality traits. The situational context predicted the mean levels of interpersonal behaviors but not complementarity. Concerning consequences of complementarity, the participants' individual complementarity coefficients predicted their being liked by the interaction partner, observer judgments of their social competence, and their overall discussion performance. We clearly recommend this type of comprehensive multilevel modeling for future research into these and related issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This article explores the platform multiverse of alt-rights, whereby groups and individuals, ideas, and discourses move across and between social platforms to avoid detection, suspension, and moderation. Analysis: This study examines disconnection practice among alt-rights as part of an affiliative assemblage that extends across multiple platforms and works to orient the disconnected toward reconnection. Conclusion and implications: Tracing this alt-right multiverse and the spatial and temporal intensities of disconnection practice exposes the discourses, habits, and interactions of alt-rights across new social platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to develop an integrative research framework for analyzing the relationships between organizational culture, power, and structure. Organization is observed as a configuration of mutually consistent components, so the main research question emerges: How organizational components impact each other? In this paper, the answer to this question is given through the analysis of the interrelationships between organizational culture, power and structure by applying the metaphor of the hologram. We started from the position that an organization must be understood as a state arising from the processes at both individual and organizational levels. The organization members’ needs for affiliation, power and achievement generate psychosocial, political and functional actions at the individual level, as well as the same processes at the organizational level. These processes generate organizational culture, power and structure as elements of the organization. However, the key idea is that culture, power and structure are derived from the wholeness of organizational processes and therefore contain each other as a kind of hologram. As a result, culture legitimizes power and structure, power instrumentalizes culture and structure, while structure institutionalizes culture and power. The paper shows practical implications of an integrative research framework both through defining further directions for research into relationships between culture, power and structure, as well as through showing to the management of organizations why it is necessary to understand and take into account the mutual consistency between culture, power, and structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What shapes public support for military missions? Existing scholarship points to, on the one hand, individuals' affiliations and predispositions (such as political partisanship and gender), and, on the other hand, factors that shape a rational cost–benefit analysis (notably, mission objectives, the prospects for victory, and the magnitude and distribution of costs). We argue that public opinion is also shaped by beliefs about why soldiers voluntarily enlist. Using novel survey data and an experiment, deployed to a nationally representative sample of Americans, we test how four conceptions of soldiering affect support for a prospective military operation. We find, in observational data, that believing that a soldier is a good citizen or patriot bolsters support for the mission, while believing that a soldier has enlisted because he wants the material benefits of service or has "no other options" undermines support. These results support our causal argument: Americans' attitudes toward military missions are shaped by their perception of whether the soldier has consented to deployment rather than by feelings of social obligation. This article has implications for debates on the determinants of public support for military missions and the relationship between military service and citizenship in democracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to determine the level of motivation in the case of both professional and amateur female soccer players in Romania. We have designed and administered a motivation questionnare ("Assessing motivation for soccer practice") to a sample of 75 female subjects, comprising 25 professional and 50 amateur soccer players in the Romanian league. The results obtained for the general score of the questionnaire show no relevant differences between the experimental group and the control group (p > 0,05). However, the analysis of the scores for each motivational dimension shows that the experimental group obtained higher values for the dimensions „Self esteem" and „Necessity of movement" (p < 0,01). No relevant differences between the two groups were visible for the dimensions "Affiliation need" and "Combativeness; aggressivity". The control group scored better than the experimental group for the dimension "Competition interest". The analysis of the results indicates that, no matter which group they belong to, the players present a high level of motivation for soccer practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Do media frame attacks with Muslim perpetrators as "terrorism" and attacks with White perpetrators as the result of "mental illness"? Despite public speculation and limited academic work with relatively small subsets of cases, there have been no systematic analyses of potential biases in how media frame terrorism. We addressed this gap by examining the text of print news coverage of all terrorist attacks in the United States between 2006 and 2015. Controlling for fatalities, affiliation with a group, and existing mental illness, the odds that an article references terrorism are approximately five times greater for a Muslim versus a non-Muslim perpetrator. In contrast, the odds that an article references mental illness do not significantly differ between White and non-White perpetrators. Results partially confirm public speculation and are robust against numerous alternative explanations. Differences in media framing can influence public (mis)perceptions of violence and threats, and ultimately harm counterterrorism policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we address the larger notion of cooperation in interaction and its underlying dimensions as defined in Conversation Analysis: alignment and affiliation. Focusing on three cases from three different languages (Danish, Estonian and Finnish) we investigate a specific practice, that of anticipatory completions, in a particular context, that of storytelling, and show that the practice of completing another speaker's turn in an anticipatory manner is not de facto definable as either an aligning or non-aligning action, nor can it be said to be either affiliating or non-affiliating. Through our analyses, we aim to distinguish and illustrate the manifold layers of and perspectives to alignment and affiliation and argue for their relevance for studies of interactional phenomena. We conclude that the notion of cooperation and its implementation through affiliating and/or aligning actions is a multi-layered and complex issue, the intricacies of which are best understood and captured through detailed sequential analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores idea of a Black Spain in the European intelligentsia of the 1500s, when peer powers aimed to reshape the geopolitical order piloted by the Iberian empire by pushing the limits of their influence and by undermining Spanish predominance and its continental affiliations its Europeanism. It mentions link between the racialization of Iberia understanding to be the systematic application of a "cultural, and genetic profile" to a group in order to marginalize, and the success of Protestant propaganda; and also mentions how racial categories lack substantive reference almost from their inception.