Social responses to virtual humans in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) may depend on
whether users perceive them to be controlled by a person (avatar) or by the computer …

We seek in three studies to better understand constructive patriotism by identifying
perceptual and motivational factors that predict it above and beyond conventional patriotism …

Relational models theory predicts that social relationships are formed from four underlying
psychological models: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market …

We studied the relation between benefits, perception of social relationships and gratitude.
Across three studies, we provide evidence that benefits increase gratitude to the extent to …

The purpose of research on human relationships is to develop theoretical models that allow
the prediction and explanation of human behavior. This chapter provides a brief description …

The first part of this guide for extraterrestrials introduces relational models theory (Fiske,
1991, 2004b) to describe the four elementary ways in which humans organize their …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the employees' identities shift in Ukraine
based on the relational model theory. The paper concentrates on the role which culture and …

This study explores an under-researched phenomenon of how African Americans
communicate about patriotism via ordinary political conversation. We conducted two studies …

Recent studies have been investigating behavior (of approach and avoidance) toward the
interaction with agents in virtual reality. This paper aims to explore the cognitive construction …

This study performs an initial exploration of cultural differences in social media disclosure
behaviors. We focus on what US and India users disclose about interpersonal relationships …