intentions and behaviors and acting towards and with them in social settings4,15. Social cognition involves understanding others and understanding with others15. One of the most advanced social functions is the empathic capacity that allows sharing the affective states of others,...
Is there anyone in Amelina’s life who has an eating disorder? Yes, there’s this girl called Emily, who struggles with her desire to be thin, and to be loved. I don’t have that problem – I know that Amelina loves me. Also, I take a lot of exercise to keep fit and trim. Bu...
However, Komi is a rare protagonist who is devastatingly shy. Although she is praised as the stoic beauty of her class and admired by her peers, Komi is extremely lonely and struggles to speak with others due to a severe communication disorder. Completely unaware of her popularity, she is la...
His hair, of which he had a great profusion, was red, and hanging in disorder about his face and shoulders, gave to his restless looks an expression quite unearthly – enhanced by the paleness of his complexion, and the glassy lustre of his large protruding eyes. Startling as his aspect ...
He's a guy who is afflicted with Tourette Syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder. And he has a place in the world within a detective agency in Brooklyn, and a mentor, Bruce Willis, who sort of understands him and understands that he has many strange gifts ...
Similarly, pop star Lady Gaga interacts intimately with her fans as a “Mother Monster” persona in digital spaces like Twitter, interactions that facilitate the active co-construction of fan and celebrity identities (Banks, 2010). Such effects have been found with interactive social television ...
is a story of a deeply moving love affair in wartime Italy between an American officer and a British nurse. The OM Man and Sea is his greatest novel that earned him the Nobel Prize for literature. The novel tells how man is faced with nature, and how man straggle against nature. Death...
(the parasocial perspective) to emerging findings that gamers sometimes engage their avatars as autonomous social agents, we argue for a relational continuum that demonstrates the full range of non-social, parasocial and fully social relationships that communication technology users can have with thei...
is a story of a deeply moving love affair in wartime Italy between an American officer and a British nurse. The OM Man and Sea is his greatest novel that earned him the Nobel Prize for literature. The novel tells how man is faced with nature, and how man straggle against nature. Death...