Forms Of Attraction Research Articles

Exploring the Associations Between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Interpersonal Attraction: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Lebanese Female University Students

Interpersonal functioning is impacted by various schemas; early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) can negatively impact interpersonal relationships in adults, yet no prior research has explored the link between EMSs and interpersonal attraction. To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study among Lebanese female university students using an online questionnaire. We also controlled for common mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and stress. Our study, implemented across ten university campuses and with a sample of 662 cisgender and heterosexual female students, revealed significant associations between EMSs and different forms of interpersonal attraction. Specifically, punitiveness was found to increase the likelihood of high task attraction, while enmeshment was associated with higher social attraction. In contrast, none of the early maladaptive schemas were significantly associated with physical attraction. Our findings emphasize the critical role of EMSs in shaping women’s interpersonal attraction and highlight the potential utility of schema therapy in promoting healthy human interactions. This study fills an important gap in the literature and sheds light on a previously unexplored aspect of human behavior that has implications for promoting women’s well-being in diverse settings.

Manusia Silver dan Seni Jalanan: Manifestasi Ruang Kebebasan Bagi Masyarakat di Perkotaan

Abstract The complexity of life and problems in urban areas have given birth to many phenomena of urban society, including the presence of silver men. However, as economic conditions deteriorate, especially due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have the initiative to adopt the “silver man style” as an opportunity to earn their personal money. Therefore, this research aims to examine how silver people express art as a form of their freedom space living in urban society. This research is a descriptive qualitative research method. The subjects of this research are silver men who are present in the area Dr.Mansur Street, Medan City. Primary data sources in this study were generated through observations and interviews with silver men. Meanwhile, secondary data was generated by digging up information about silver men in Medan City through book documentation, journals, and internet websites. The technique of data analysis is by conducting an interactive model of data analysis form Miles & Huberman. The results of this study show that urban public space is a place of freedom for silver men in Medan City to show their existence of expression of freedom to the general public. Forms of expression and existence of silver humas in Medan City include silver humans, very free to perform pantonymous forms of attraction and style like robots. Then, silver mens can easily collect money from the results of their labour by performing silver men attractions withput any social structure or environment that suppresses them to express and show their existence in the space of freedom or urban public space. Keyword: Silver men, Urban, Public space, Freedom of space, Street performance

Fundamental and applied aspects of geopolitical studies in USA and their influence on contemporary practice of international relations

Paper is devoted to methodology and content of geopolitical studies realizing in United States of America. In their complex are analyzing historical and political studies of theoretical and practical type oriented to analysis of forms and directions of expansion and governance of different territories by state power institutions. In quality of examples having from point of contemporary development of international relations evident actuality in paper are selected monographs and articles devoted to external policy of Russian Empire in period of second half of 19th and beginning of 20th century. In content of these historiographical sources were precisely presented basic and partially stereotype forms of attraction by American authors of tendencies of development of other countries with mobilizational type of transformation and traditional for studies of these authors strategies forecasting of political and in large meaning social evolution of these countries. In quality of fundamental aspects diversified in these scientific and partly journalistic works in paper are presented points about global backwardness, forced and in this occasion temporary overcoming of existing evolutionary problems and final impossibility of successful concurrence of Russia and other countries with catching type of development with United States of America, Great Britain and mostly industrially developing states of continental Europe. To applied aspects of geopolitical studies realizing in USA in paper were referred interpretations of concrete historical events projected and presented in them and also their choice and systematization. This definition of studying object is conditioned by methodological connection between scientific analysis of facts and from one part by development of international relations and from other part by realizing by many authors decision of task of explaining external political strategy of state on base of ideologically determined historiographical discourse caused from one part by development of international relations and from other part by specific features of expert social mind.

The Direct Reproductive Cost of Same-Sex Attraction: Evidence from Two Nationally Representative U.S. Samples.

Same-sex attraction is associated with a direct reproductive cost, i.e., a reduced number of biological children. The current study aimed to assess this cost for different forms of sexual attraction (i.e., only attracted to opposite sex, mostly attracted to opposite sex, equally attracted to both sexes, mostly attracted to same-sex, only attracted to same-sex), using two large nationally representative datasets (N = 15,208) from the USA. The results indicated that same-sex attraction was associated with substantial loss in direct reproductive output. More specifically, significant differences between the different types of same-sex attraction were found: Exclusive and mostly homosexual orientation identities were associated with the highest direct reproductive cost, while mostly attracted to opposite sex orientation and bisexuality identities were associated with lower direct reproductive costs. In addition, bisexual women did not differ significantly from exclusively heterosexual women in terms of their reproductive output. The implications of these findings for the evolutionary origins of same-sex attraction are further discussed.

Presence of Eroticism in Philippine Short Stories

This study explored the presence of eroticism in selected Philippine short stories. There were four stories covered such as “The Riddle” by F. Sionil Jose, “The Virgin” by Kerima Polotan Tuvera, “Magnificence” by Estrella D. Alfon, “Midsummer” by Manuel Arguilla, “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez and “How My Brother Leon Brought A Wife” by Manuel Arguilla. This literary study has to answer this lone question: What are the manifestations of eroticism, and how is eroticism presented in the different stories? Using qualitative design (focused on content-analysis) with two aid formal and psychoanalytic approaches of interpretation, the study yielded the following findings: The eight stories contained eroticism that revolved around physical attraction towards the opposite sex; love and sex; lust; husband-wife relationship; and physical admiration. Based on the study's findings, the researcher concludes that Eroticism, which manifests in the forms of physical attraction towards the opposite sex; love and sex; lust; and physical admiration, are present in the covered eight Philippine short stories in English. Based on the findings and conclusion of the study, the researchers have to advance the following recommendations: Literature teachers should expose students to various literary pieces of Philippine literature and expose further students to various literary approaches to analyze literary opuses appropriately. Themes on eroticism in Philippine short stories and other genres need to be handled carefully by teachers by allowing students to see the bad side and good side of such themes. Lessons need to be sought after the come up themes for self-reflection. Future researchers are inspired to replicate this study.

Рынки ICO и IPO: обзор состояния и перспектив

The purpose of this work is to study the investment capital markets by analysing the IPO and ICO procedures, identifying the main trends, leading sectors and comparing their volumes. The methodological basis was a retrospective analysis of the development of various forms of investment attraction (IPO and ICO). The main research methods were deduction, induction, synthesis and logical analysis. This article examined the main trends taking place in the IPO and ICO markets; key types of used blockchain platforms were identified; the leading countries and sectors in terms of the amount of funds raised are presented. The ICO market showed high growth rates in 2013–2018, but did not reach volumes comparable to the IPO market. Most of the projects that used the ICO (digital token issuance) procedures chose the Ethereum blockchain system as a platform, implemented projects in the fintech and IT industries, infrastructure development and decentralized applications (DApps). The leading states, residents, which have carried out the largest number of ICO procedures, are the USA, Singapore, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. In the IPO market, the largest volume of funds was attracted by projects from such sectors as finance, consumer services, oil and gas, industry and healthcare. The US remains the main platform chosen by companies for IPOs. The US is followed by the UK, China and Hong Kong

PROSPECTING THE CULTURE OF THE SÁMI PEOPLE THROUGH TOURISM: An Experience in the City of Tromsø, Norway

This report focuses on different forms of tourist attraction of the Sami indigenous people in the city Tromsø/Norway, such as identity marks and maintenance of traditions. The general objective is to analyse signs as symbolic elements of the Sami people, showing their potential for indigenous ethnic tourism. We conducted a survey of tourist attractions, and verified how this service is provided for tourists. This study uses as methodological and theorical perspective that is exploratory in nature, according to Husserl’s phenomenology (2001), with strategies of ethnography (MATTOS, 2011) and Peirce’s semiotics (2011). This research took place in Tromsø/Norway city, which is located 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle and is home to the Sami people. The techniques of interlocution with those involved resulted in field annotations, and the techniques of participant observation, open-ended interview, pictures and audio recordings with ten participants were also used. Besides the interviews, documents were studied, such as Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Sami legislation. It was observed, as a result of this research, that the city of Tromsø in Norway has evident tourist potential through the culture of the Sami people. The tourist attractions are varied, such as watching the Northern Lights, reindeer herding, and listening to stories of ancestry closely connected to nature, in a dialogic relationship between cultural tradition and science. It was also found that these tourist attractions are carried out responsibly, with sustainability in mind.

Not clearly defined, not reliably measured, and not replicable: Revisiting the definition and measurement of human mate poaching

Schmitt and Buss' (2001) seminal definition of poaching labelled it as “behavior intended to attract someone who is already in a romantic relationship.” Davies, Shackelford, and Hass' (2007) definition stated that to be considered a poach, the targeted individual's relationship must be exclusive and the pursuer must be aware of this at the time. Davies et al. found percentages reporting experience with poaching among their participants were lower than percentages found by Schmitt and Buss among their participants. To investigate whether these differences in percentages were due to differences between the two samples, the current study was the first to compare percentages reporting experience with poaching secured through the different definitions in a single sample. Findings indicated no differences in percentages secured through the different definitions. Discussion argues, however, that as Schmitt and Buss' definition may be perceived as denoting the form of attraction denoted by Davies et al.'s definition as well as two other forms of attraction, findings may be reliable only if researchers secure individual findings for each form of attraction denoted by Schmitt and Buss' definition. In addition, researchers should reach a consensus regarding which of the forms of attraction denoted by Schmitt and Buss' definition constitutes poaching.

Does sharp force trauma alter blow fly attraction to, colonization of, and decomposition of vertebrate remains?

AbstractForensic entomologists use insect evidence to estimate the minimum postmortem interval of human remains. However, how different forms of trauma influence insect attraction to, and colonization of, the body is poorly understood. Our objective was to identify the Calliphoridae community present in the Piedmont region (Georgia, USA), and determine whether postmortem sharp force trauma (none vs. slashed vs. stabbed) altered insect attraction, colonization, and the resulting decomposition rate of stillborn pigs (Suidae). We show that the limited blow fly community is dominated by Lucilia coeruleiviridis Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Third instars (L3) of L. coeruleiviridis were found on control pigs at 48 h, slashed pigs at 36 h, and stabbed pigs at 24 h. Decomposition rate, as determined by total body score, was greater in the first 12 h in stabbed pigs, compared to control and slashed pigs. Further experimentation is required to determine the effect of different forms of trauma on insect attraction, colonization, and resulting vertebrate decomposition rates.

Of Mechanisms and Myths: Conceptualising States’ “Soft Power” Strategies through Sports Mega-Events

ABSTRACTJoseph Nye’s concept of “soft power” has become an increasingly used term to help explain why states—including so-called “emerging states”—are paying greater attention to acquiring various forms of cultural and political attraction. However, within mainstream International Relations, Political Science, and Sport Studies literature, a continuous debate remains as to what actually constitutes soft power, how national leaders go about acquiring it, and how forms of attraction convert into power outcomes in both the short- and long-term. This analysis endeavours to overcome these issues by offering an “ideal type” model that details states’ soft power strategies, the mechanisms they use, and the tangible future outcomes they gain.

Conceptually-Pragmatic Aspect of the Neighbourhood Discourse Implementation (in the Materials of Riga Newspaper “Today” at th Beginning of 20th Century)

The article examines the conceptual-pragmatic aspect of the realization of the discourse of neighbourhood in the Riga’s city newspaper Segodnya (Today) from 1923 to 1925. The mainrepresentatives of the discourse are the utterances containing the word/concept “neighbour”. The analysis revealed that the word/concept “neighbour” in the communicative space of the newspaper demonstrates the dynamics of the meanings that can be explained by a variety of linguistic and extra-linguistic phenomena. The conceptual dominants of the discourse of the neighbourhood are defined by the following factors: the specifics of a particular event, the manner of introduction of the role behaviour of participants, the distribution of the communicative roles. The choice by a speaker of a particular pragmatic type of “wrapping” of an event in the process of organization of the utterances containing the unit of “neighbour” is subjected to the goals of the creation of the effect of greater reliability as well as strengthening the level of information significance for a potential addressee. The inclusion of the addressee into the eventful space of the discourse is one of the forms of attraction of attention from the side of the speaker towards the socially significant phenomena.

Computer Users Do Gender

The so-called “digital gender divide” has encouraged studies attempting to demonstrate the co-production of gender and information technology. Vivian Lagesen has criticized many of these attempts for failing to provide fully symmetrical accounts. Here we describe and analyze beliefs and practices concerning computers, gender, and technology evinced by managers in a network of public sites (Community Access Centers) created to provide community access to digital technology in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. From those results, we argue, among other conclusions, that distinguishing more carefully between the gendered uses of new technologies and the gendered forms of attraction associated with them produces a more fully realized and more perfectly symmetric understanding of how gender and communications technologies are co-produced. We show that the concepts of actor-network theory facilitate that analysis, and so interpret the study as supporting and extending Lagesen’s program.

Large-Scale Events as Catalysts for Creating Mutual Dependence Between Social Ventures and Resource Providers

We examine the resource mobilization efforts undertaken by a social venture to organize the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games and bring about a change in social attitudes towards the cause of learning and intellectual disabilities. In contrast to previously advanced views of social ventures as powerless actors, we find instead that they are able to leverage the visibility afforded by large-scale events to create positions of mutual dependence, which allow them to access broad support bases and assert themselves in relationships with external parties. Specifically, we find that resource mobilization involves six distinct tactics rooted in the softer forms of power, namely, attraction and inducement. The use of these soft-power tactics depends upon the social venture’s goal at different moments of the relationship with its partners and the level of support available from each external party. Our elaborated theory highlights both the role and limitations of soft power in mobilizing resources and managing relationships.

The stereoscopic attraction

While the commonly received wisdom in scholarship of early stereoscopy asserts that it fell victim to photography’s success and eventually ‘died’ in the late 1930s, this article calls for a less determinist reading of stereoscopy’s place in media culture. Such a change requires the recognition that stereoscopy is a technique applicable across media, not a continually dying and reborn medium. Arguing that the stereograph laid some of the groundwork for the ‘cinema of attractions’ before it suffered from cinema’s capacity to supply precisely such spectacular modes of visual engagement on a grander sale, this article suggests that there is much to be taken from understanding early stereoscopy as a prototypical attraction. In the current context, in which not just three-dimensional (3D) cinema but also 3D television and 3D gaming all offer new forms of stereoscopic attraction, the content of early spectacular stereocards offers a wealth of source material with which to understand a newly resurgent form.

Exhibitions and the role of fashion in the sustenance of the Kylie Brand mythology

Central to the logic of the aesthetic economy (Entwistle, 2002) is celebrity culture, the two go hand in hand and the boundaries between them are increasingly blurred in the spirit and name of commerce, capitalism and marketing. Celebrity demands a stage, or better, an exhibition space, a frame for further performance and sustainment of appeal, a space to induce inspiration among followers and fans alike. Celebrity by this reckoning is less about advertising and the transfer of meaning through such overly narrow and confined media processes (McCracken, 1989); rather celebrity affect, as we seek to demonstrate in this paper, works through specific stagings, one such being the celebrity fashion exhibition, where the appeal of celebrity is broadened and staged anew to cultivate new forms of attraction, intimacy and public participation.

Perceptual organization in the tilt illusion.

The tilt illusion is a paradigmatic example of contextual influences on perception. We analyze it in terms of a neural population model for the perceptual organization of visual orientation. In turn, this is based on a well-found treatment of natural scene statistics, known as the Gaussian Scale Mixture model. This model is closely related to divisive gain control in neural processing and has been extensively applied in the image processing and statistical learning communities; however, its implications for contextual effects in biological vision have not been studied. In our model, oriented neural units associated with surround tilt stimuli participate in divisively normalizing the activities of the units representing a center stimulus, thereby changing their tuning curves. We show that through standard population decoding, these changes lead to the forms of repulsion and attraction observed in the tilt illusion. The issues in our model readily generalize to other visual attributes and contextual phenomena, and should lead to more rigorous treatments of contextual effects based on natural scene statistics.

Models, Practices and Methods of Reading: Evolution in Time and Space

In recent years as public in general and specialist have been showing big interest to the matters of reading. According to discussion and launch of the “Support and Development of Reading National Program”, many Russian libraries are organizing the large-scale events like marathons, lecture cycles, bibliographic trainings etc. which should draw attention of different social groups to reading. The individual forms of attraction to reading are used much rare. To author’s mind the main reason of such an issue has to be the lack of information about forms and methods of attraction to reading.

When a “Poach” Is Not a Poach: Re-Defining Human Mate Poaching and Re-Estimating Its Frequency

For a romantic attraction to be considered a mate poach, the pursuer must be aware that, while attempting to attract the targeted individual, the target is already in a nominally exclusive relationship. We investigated a methodological alternative for investigating the frequency of mate poaching. We presented university students with a survey informed by a definition of poaching that, in contrast to that which informed previous surveys, explicitly stated that the poacher must be aware while pursuing the targeted individual that the target was already in an exclusive relationship. Relative to participants in previous research, the current participants reported fewer experiences with poaching. We concluded that the current survey reduced the likelihood of participants reporting experiences with non-poaching forms of romantic attraction as experiences with poaching, and thereby provided more accurate estimates of the frequency of poaching. We also investigated the frequency of a previously uninvestigated form and temporal context of poaching and used a more fine-grained measure of the frequency of poaching than used in previous research. Discussion addresses limitations of the current research and suggests future directions for addressing them.

Solvent-free model for self-assembling fluid bilayer membranes: Stabilization of the fluid phase based on broad attractive tail potentials

We present a simple and highly adaptable method for simulating coarse-grained lipid membranes without explicit solvent. Lipids are represented by one head bead and two tail beads, with the interaction between tails being of key importance in stabilizing the fluid phase. Two such tail-tail potentials were tested, with the important feature in both cases being a variable range of attraction. We examined phase diagrams of this range versus temperature for both functional forms of the tail-tail attraction and found that a certain threshold attractive width was required to stabilize the fluid phase. Within the fluid-phase region we find that material properties such as area per lipid, orientational order, diffusion constant, interleaflet flip-flop rate, and bilayer stiffness all depend strongly and monotonically on the attractive width. For three particular values of the potential width we investigate the transition between gel and fluid phases via heating or cooling and find that this transition is discontinuous with considerable hysteresis. We also investigated the stretching of a bilayer to eventually form a pore and found excellent agreement with recent analytic theory.

A Tale of Two Processes

The “long-branch attraction” (LBA) phenomenon in phylogeny reconstruction is well cited but its causes have been poorly characterized. In this article, we point out that different biological processes can lead to similar forms of long-branch attraction. That is, although sequences generated by different processes look similar “through the eyes of parsimony,” the ensemble of sequence site patterns (not just the parsimony sites) can distinguish between these processes. In 1978, Felsenstein described an evolutionary scenario under which unequal amounts of change in nonadjacent lineages would mislead tree-building methods based on parsimony (or on uncorrected distances). Other authors have since shown that when substitution models are misspecified, maximum likelihood and distancebased methods can be similarly misled (e.g., Hillis et al., 1994; Lockhart et al., 1996; Bruno and Halpern, 1999; Swofford et al., 2001; Sullivan and Swofford, 2001; Ho and Jermiin, 2004). LBA problems may also arise because of sparse and/or unbalanced taxon sampling (Hendy and Penny, 1989; Holland et al. 2003; Lockhart and Penny, 2005) and/or because of lineage-specific differences in rates or processes of evolution (e.g., Hasagawa and Hashimoto, 1993; Steel et al., 1993, 2000). Felsenstein (1978) assumed that whilst evolutionary rates varied across a tree, individual sites in sequences could be ascribed a rate of change that was the same at other sites in the same sequence. That is, if a lineage was fast (or slow) evolving, then the evolution of sites in a sequence belonging to that lineage was also fast (or slow). A site position that has evolved under this scenario can be seen as a special case of “heterotachy.” This is a property of individual sequence positions, which literally means different speeds. It is the concept of sequence evolution at a given site undergoing substitution at different rates in different parts of the tree (Lopez et al., 2002). Interestingly, Simon et al. (1996) have also described this phenomenon and referred to it as “mosaic evolution.” It is important to note that variation in the substitution rate of a site throughout the tree is distinct from rate variation across sites (as modeled, for example, by a gamma distribution). In the latter case there is a site-specific substitution rate that varies randomly across the sites, but at any site it applies equally to all the branch lengths of the tree (the branch lengths at the site are all multiplied by the site-specific rate). Consequently, the ratio of substitution rates on two different branches is constant across sites in such models, even when one allows both rate variation in the tree (as in Felsenstein’s scenario) as well as an independent process of rate variation (e.g., gamma distribution) across sites. In contrast, with more general forms of heterotachy, the ratio of substitution rates on different branches of the tree may vary across sites. The special case of heterotachy assumed by Felsenstein (1978) is different from another very special type of heterotachy recently explored in simulations by Kolaczkowski and Thornton (2004). These authors envisaged a four-taxon tree, for which the external lineages evolved in such a way that sites in the sequences accumulated substitutions at one of two rates, either slow or fast. As Spencer et al. (2005) point out, the frequencies of patterns expected under the simulation model studied by Kolaczkowski and Thornton (2004) are a small snapshot of the full range of possibilities when all possible combinations of short and long branches are considered, and most of these do not cause LBA (further concerns regarding the findings of Kolaczkowski and Thornton [2004] have been discussed by Steel, 2005). Thus, the patterns that Kolaczkowski and Thornton (2004) studied are different from those expected under the standard stationary covarion (or “covarion drift”) models, which have been the subject of much recent study (e.g., Tuffley and Steel, 1998; Penny et al., 2001; Gaucher et al., 2001; Huelsenbeck, 2002; Galtier, 2001; Misof et al., 2002; Inagaki et al., 2004; Ane et al., 2005; Guindon et al., 2004). These standard covarion models have reversible stationary substitution rates among character states that are switched “on” (variable), and a reversible stationary process between the state of “off” (invariable) and “on.” The latter condition will maintain