Witnessing peer victimization is an emotionally salient event, particularly for youth. Given
that emotions influence how youth respond to social situations, the emotional experiences of …

Background Social influences are important modulators of pain. Experimental studies
demonstrated analgesic effects of explicit social support. As digital health care gains …

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 …

Many social media users have lost some agency over the use of these sites. Restoring this
sense of agency is important as it can help users live responsibly with the technology, and …

Belonging to a group is a natural need for human beings. Being left out and rejected
represents a negative event, which can cause discomfort and stress to the excluded person …

While virtual humans are increasingly used to benefit the elderly, considerably little is still
known about older adults' virtual experiences. However, due to age-related changes, older …

Prominent tools used to measure loneliness such as the UCLA Scale and DJGS include no
items related to being needed, ie, neededness. More recent scales such as the DLS and …

Household consumption accounting to more than 70% of global GHG emissions is an
indication to where sustainable policies should focus their efforts toward a sustainable …

Purpose Unprecedented environmental crises threaten the world, and most environmental
problems are closely associated with human behaviour. At the same time, social exclusion …

Previous studies have identified the brain correlates of social pain processing during
ostracism. However, the affective response to ostracism may vary according to individual …