Sentences with phrase «of social threats»

The researchers compared the reactions of 14 Pilanesberg elephant families and 39 elephant families in Amboseli to different levels of social threats.

Here again, Pilanesberg elephants were apparently unable to distinguish between the level of social threat presented by older versus younger callers.

Affiliation moderates the effects of social threat on stress - related cardiovascular responses: Boundary conditions for a laboratory model of social support

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But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.

Because I reasoned that feelings of threat pose a barrier to transgressors» willingness to offer comprehensive apologies, I examined whether self - affirmation could buffer against this threat and consequently promote more effective apologies,» Schumann explains on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog.

The social network's stock has fallen into a bear market territory as the company faces regulatory threats of its own amid privacy leaks.

At least three of those interviewed have worked at some of the other top social networks and say employees there have also received threats.

Now even the threat of mobilization on social media can lead companies to change quickly.

On social media, readers expressed intense loathing («I hate these people so much,») threats of physical violence («Dear god, I want to punch them in the face,») and a longing for karmic justice («I've never wanted the entire real estate market to completely collapse until now»).

Said Jeff Horne, director of threat research at Webroot: «A perfect storm is developing between the number of people flocking to social networks and the new, increasingly sophisticated malware attacks cybercriminals are launching to prey on the personal data they're sharing.»

There is the threat of federal involvement, and anybody getting involved has to be comfortable with a certain degree of risk, but recognizing that the long term rewards — both in financial and social cause — can be extremely high.»

«Policy and education of the workforce goes a long way toward better security posture, especially in this age where advanced threat actors increasingly resort to social engineering tactics in their threat campaign,» Gong says.

Pai, who championed a controversial proposal approved in December to reverse the Obama administration's net neutrality rules, has been the target of death threats in social media postings and harassing signs have been posted near his home.

For example, anonymous social apps such as Whisper, which have faced pressure to step up content policing efforts, rely on TaskUs employees to manually flag inappropriate messages — nude photos, threats of violence, etc. — and keep them off its networks.

This significant rise in precarious employment is a serious threat — not only to the collective prosperity of the region, but also to the social fabric of communities.

West Jet's recent handling of four consecutive bomb threats, sets an example for other companies on how to properly use social media throughout a crisis.

Entrepreneurs working in financial technology are helping banks grapple with everything from Big Data and cybersecurity threats to the growing number of customers using mobile and social media.

The possibility of intergenerational fracturing and social discord are real threats; just consider the rise of the Quebec student protests or Occupy.

Labatt Breweries quickly learned a brutal lesson in social media marketing and PR after a legal threat against the Montreal Gazette, over the paper's use of a photo depicting accused killer Luka Magnotta holding a bottle of Blue, transformed into a Twitter backlash mocking the beer company.

But it has been hard to distinguish future promises — or threats — from the realities of how social credit is being implemented.

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

Analyst Jeremiah Owyang of San Mateo's Altimeter Group described the plan as Facebook's «crusade of colonization» of the Internet that could make the firm the Web's main social in - box - and a bigger threat to Google.

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They know that the other coins are not a threat to Bitcoin Core and they understand that branding Bitcoin Cash as an «alt» would do a good deal of social damage to it.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

The report, «Socionomics in a Nutshell» (December 1999), demonstrated in brief that in the realm of economics, politics, demographics, war and even the threat of nuclear destruction, events are not causal to social mood and stock market trends.

Changes in the threat of nuclear destruction do not affect stock prices; the social mood as reflected by the stock market affects the level of the threat.

Abe asked for a new mandate to deal with the growing threat from North Korea and said it is urgent that Japan's social security system be rebalanced in order to cope with the growing number of retirees.

Scott Israel, the Broward County, Fla., sheriff, called on lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee to expand police powers by allowing officers to detain people for a mental health evaluation on the basis of worrisome social media posts or «graphic threats.»

On many social media sites, there have been instances in which certain people were hounded with death threats by droves of angry individuals who based their facts on a single person's writings online.

Indeed, it's a convenient tactic for politicians to unite people from the Right (concerned with the «threat of Islam») and the Left (moved by issues of gender equality and secularism) in order to draw attention away from pressing social and economic issues.

Dalits, who have been subjected to social and cultural oppression for generations are facing new threats to them by the wanton destruction of the natural environment.

The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.

Some of these challenges are significant: campus ministries experience hurdles to campus access, Christian adoption and social service agencies confront regulations in tension with their missional convictions, and Christian educational institutions face threats to their accreditation and tax - exempt status.

If pastors want to go both upstream and downstream at once (root causes and future social impacts), they can begin building a social movement to lift up the positive tension that SHOULD EXIST between free enterprise and democracy, specifically in light of its threat in the near future.

According to this explanation, religious groups, especially those of a conservative or fundamentalist hue, mobilize themselves in reaction to perceived threats to their social standing or security.

This advisor is basically saying, «she is a threat to the social structure of our society.»

«More difficult, I think, is the question of whether home schooling poses any sort of a problem for society; a threat to social cohesion, for example, or a brain drain from the public schools.

The sacrament acknowledges those threats to life to which the dark pessimism of Hobbes and the social contract theorists testified.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

Some social control over the excesses of the high caste landlords was exercised through the threat of Pulaya black magic in Travancore.31

From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare, for it justifies and confirms sensual satisfaction as the regulating principle of life.

people do that ALL THE TIME, but you would never know that because you're too busy fantasizing about how great it was in the days that christianity itself filled its pews and wielded social power with the terrifying threat of physical violence

I think given equal opportunities there will be a natural inclination for many towards traditional roles and that this is healthy, has nothing to do with any artificial social construct but is natural and comes out of biology and now might be the time to be having open discussions about this kind of thing without having to face the fear of being labelled misogynistic for doing so or with feeling fearful of any threat to equality.

He had to face the threats of being killed by the religious and social leaders of the day.

In these stories, disasters resulting from technological or political threats generate a social order that fails to deliver liberation of the individual.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same - sex marriage la, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness, and ehalth care.

-- To be counted as an act of terror, an incident has to be an intentional act or threat by a «non-state actor» that meets two of these three criteria: — • It was aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious or social goal.

There's no application of Catholic social doctrine to help us think in a disciplined way about how to respond to environmental threats, or how to reform global capitalism.