passive, anxious, and restrained forms
of social distancing and withdrawal from the interaction
Gholizadeh works with the idea of the veil as a physical and social construct that forms, not only one's status and identity, but also a sense
of social distancing from others.
In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function
of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region within each social distance category.
In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function
of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance category.
Inter-subject similarities for each brain region at each level
of social distance.
Not exact matches
The deal also shows that Apple is
distancing itself as a purveyor
of so - called fake news, the false and misleading news reports that have spread on
social media networks like Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr).
According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact
social change, instead
of simply shouting at them from a
distance.
Acting like the spokes
of a wheel, FoodRescue.ca builds connections between food donations and
social programs through timely and reactive software that considers organizational needs, such as
distance and capacity.
Social media became such a hit because not only did it provide entertainment value to its members and communication to alleviate the pits
of long
distance friendships and relationships, for its popularity became so helpful in many businesses.
Lazarus, in an earlier time, was also part
of the
social landscape for this rich man, and below the notice
of one who had the wherewithal to inhabit a home where the poor could be «gated» outside and kept at a
distance.
He saw that an effective way
of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by
social media) was to establish an ironic
distance from «the deadly routine
of everyday life.»
He provides a fascinating if troubling examination
of how belief systems, physical
distance from one's «enemy, tribalism, humiliation and other
social forces destroy normal psychological inhibitors to cruelty.
In spite
of strained efforts to promote «friendliness,» the
social distance separating individuals within the group is large.
Did the bad blood between Judeans and Galileans have roots in the ancient conflict between Judah, that bastion
of orthodoxy, and Israel, whose
distance from the Temple was felt to be religious as well as
social and geographic?
In this case personal suffering or
social alienation has already provided
distance from normative cultural interpretations (the state
of fusion).
One possible disguise
of the real situation is to persuade ourselves that we really do love the other in his place and at the
social distance we prescribe.
Now I recognize that process theology is far more sophisticated than Boston Personalism, and more sophisticated precisely because it is genuinely philosophical, but I fail to detect any substantial or real theological
distance between Boston Personalism and Chicago Process Theology, just as I can not fail to observe that both are so clearly related to the
social world
of modern American liberal Protestantism.
More specifically, as the above - mentioned case illustrates, from the Dalit communities» point
of view the economic,
social, cultural, and religious
distance between Christian and non-Christian Dalits is exaggerated, if not altogether spurious.
Western Christendom at the turn
of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great
social enterprises terminating only at a horizon
of unguessable
distance.
In practice
social - scientific approaches necessarily emphasize the historical and
social distance between first - century Jesus group members and Christians
of today.
These helped conquer «the tyranny
of distance,» as John C. Calhoun called it, and played a role in stimulating the great
social changes
of the time, including the advances in America's wealth and living standards, the spread
of opportunity, the leveling
of class distinctions, and the increase in popular suffrage.
(27) Having established some degree
of critical
distance from the assumed language and values
of the culture, how do we develop a poetic and corporate language that can break the rim
of normative consciousness and revitalize the religious imagination as a source
of energy for
social change?
For works
of related interest to my discussion
of psychic
distancing, see Lane, Dermot A., Foundations for a
Social Theology: Praxis.
Yes, they make it easier to bridge
distances, and they offer the gift
of time in that you can be
social at your convenience (if you can't offer a response immediately, you can delay it without dropping the conversation).
Because I was ten years younger than I was now, I was still interested in having a
social life and the fact that having a baby
distanced me from some
of my friends was hurtful.
Changes in the structure
of the nuclear family, long
distances between extended family members and overall
social isolation along with short postpartum hospital stays can leave new parents feeling adrift - stressed and unsure.
A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise:
Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount
of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long -
distance messages within the brain.
So many good things have come from
social media: It enables family and friends to connect despite vast
distances, while the rest
of ~ The Web ~ opens the door to a wealth
of information, job opportunities, and even the potential to help save lives.
«But modern America is a place
of extremes, and what you eat for dinner has become the definitive marker
of social status; as the
distance between rich and poor continues to grow, the freshest, most nutritious foods have become luxury goods that only some can afford.»
former board Chairman
of the
Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Professor Joshua Alabi has
distanced himself from the contract that procured a $ 77 million software for the Trust.
Charles Kennedy, the keeper
of the
social democratic flame, who died a few weeks after losing his Highlands seat, was keen to keep his
distance from Clegg: a suggestion that Clegg might visit Kennedy's constituency in Scotland was met with a curt two - word reply.
A former board Chairman
of the
Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Professor Joshua Alabi has
distanced himself from the contract that procured a $ 66 million software for the Trust.
Former Minister
of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has
distanced herself from the Atiku Abubakar / Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala campaign posters, which showed up on
social media sites.
While Lhota painted himself as a fiscal conservative, he sought
distance from national Republicans on
social issues by reiterating his support
of abortion rights and same - sex marriage.
In a separate development, the party moved to
distance itself from a series
of pro-Corbyn
social media groups after an investigation by The Sunday Times found they contained hundreds
of violent and abusive messages.
The rest
of the European Left never quite went the neo con
distance that Blair et al took the Labour Party, but with a few honourable exceptions, the political surrender to free market fundamentalism drove many
of the
social democratic parties to run up the white flag.
It brings
social sharing
of your fitness achievements and
distance metrics right to your fingertips.
A January study in the Journal
of Experimental
Social Psychology suggests negotiations are smoother when the parties are separated by
distance.
The authors examined a concept known as power
distance belief (PDB)-- individual acceptance and expectation
of social hierarchy — and its relationship with charitable giving and power, defined as the control one has over valued resources.
Previous research has already identified components
of the brain's
social network, revealing the inferior parietal lobule seems to encode familiarity and
social distance, and that the medial prefrontal cortex encodes how socially relevant other people are to us.
This form
of social group interaction over long
distances very likely offered a means
of mitigating periods
of environmental risk, uncertainty and scarcity,» said Potts.
They often
distance biomedicine from its
social context by ignoring many
of its short - term and long - term implications.
Some
of this may be for
social reasons, Joyner notes — until the past few decades,
distance events didn't have the focus or coaching (or funding) that is characteristic
of sprint
distances.
«The fact that eyewitnesses have experienced the past themselves makes them so credible that the students who interact with them in person find it hard to build up the
distance needed for a critical approach to their accounts,» explains Christiane Bertram, who is first author
of the study and who meanwhile teaches teaching didactics in the
social sciences at the University
of Konstanz.
As described in the main text, ordered logistic regression analyses were carried out for each brain region in which
social network
distances were modeled as a function
of local neural response similarities and dyadic dissimilarities in control variables (gender, ethnicity, nationality, age, and handedness).
Regression coefficients for the effects
of neural response similarity on
social distance for each cortical ROI are shown overlaid on a lateral, b medial, and c ventral views
of the cortical surface.
To gain insight into what brain regions may be driving the relationship between
social distance and overall neural similarity, we performed ordered logistic regression analyses analogous to those described above independently for each
of the 80 ROIs, again using cluster - robust standard errors to account for dyadic dependencies in the data.
We reasoned that insufficiently engaging stimuli would be likely to evoke mind wandering, which would likely involve idiosyncratic thoughts unrelated to the experiment, and thus would introduce unwanted noise into estimates
of inter-subject correlations and their relationships to
social distance.
Further, we tested whether similarities
of neural responses can be used to predict the
social distance between members
of this
social network.
Models were specified either as ordered logistic regressions with categorical
social distance as the dependent variable or as logistic regression with a binary indicator
of reciprocated friendship as the dependent variable.