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4 Citations
4,706 Views
9 Pages

9 September 2018

Reports of lateralized behavior are widespread, although the majority of findings have focused on the visual or motor domains. Less is known about laterality with regards to the social domain. We previously observed a left-side bias in two social aff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Left Versus Right Asymmetries of Brain and Behaviour)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,246 Views
17 Pages

Agricultural Internet Entrepreneurs’ Social Network Behaviors and Entrepreneurship Financing Performance

  • Zichun Yan,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Ze-Yu Wang,
  • Jian Yu,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Guodong Li

31 July 2018

From the perspective of social network behavior, our paper discusses the relationship between agricultural entrepreneurial social network behavior and entrepreneurial financing performance in an Internet crowdfunding setting, and investigates the mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,961 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2017

The topic of sustainability has mostly been tied to economic development and environmental protection, yet not much attention has been paid to the need for high problem-solving capacity as this underlines both issues. One of the most straightforward...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,603 Views
14 Pages

In tandem with internet development and widespread social media use, e-health communities have begun to emerge in recent years. These communities allow doctors to access forums anywhere, anytime, seek or exchange medical information online, find lite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue E-Health Services)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,973 Views
24 Pages

Construction workers’ unsafe behaviors (CWUBs) are a primary cause of construction safety accidents in railway tunnel engineering (RTE). Understanding the causation mechanism between construction safety accidents, CWUBs, and their influencing f...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,924 Views
17 Pages

2 October 2025

The proliferation of social network data has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for extensive, data-driven exploration of human behavior. The structural intricacies of social networks offer insights into various computational social science issues,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Social Computing and Social Network Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
1,491 Views
15 Pages

While the use of social networking sites continues to rise, security continues to be an important issue. This issue often results when many users do not change their social networking security settings. Such behavior leaves vast amounts of data vulne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,681 Views
13 Pages

Relationship Satisfaction and Infidelity-Related Behaviors on Social Networks: A Preliminary Online Study of Hispanic Women

  • Juan Aníbal González-Rivera,
  • Francisco Aquino-Serrano and
  • Emily M. Pérez-Torres

The purpose of this online study was to develop an explicative model regarding the origin of infidelity-related behaviors on social networks for Hispanic women. We propose that sexual satisfaction and emotional intimacy have a direct impact on the sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,160 Views
21 Pages

The green production practices of farmers are essential for sustainable agricultural development. However, studies have mostly overlooked the social factors affecting farmers’ decisions regarding green production behaviors (GPB). Furthermore, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
1,894 Views
14 Pages

Travel Buying Behavior in Social Network Site Users: to Buy Online vs. Offline

  • Francisco Javier Rondán-Cataluña,
  • Jorge Arenas-Gaitán and
  • Patricio Ramírez-Correa

The purpose of this research is to examine the variables that influence buying behavior for a sample of social network sites users who are offline buyers of hospitality services. Subsequently, we do the same of social network sites users who are onli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,954 Views
22 Pages

9 December 2024

In the realm of tourism intervention and the reconfiguration of social networks among residents in ethnic villages, research on tourism support behavior is pivotal for comprehending the motivations behind resident participation and fostering sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,043 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2022

Social media behaviors include those of a religious nature. This paper investigates psychological traits, perceptions, and attitudinal variables concerning manifestations of religiosity on social media of both theists and atheists, as the latter are...

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  • Open Access
89 Citations
11,845 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2020

A key strategic aim of tourism destinations within the smart tourism paradigm is to achieve efficient, responsible and sustainable use of tourism resources. This aim can be achieved by promoting the appropriate practices and making tourists co-manage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Web 2.0 in Tourism and Hospitality Industries)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,694 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2023

Distrust behavior is a human behavior that has a significant impact on water pollution management, but it is neglected in existing approaches. To solve this problem, we design a large-scale group decision making in social network (LSGDM-SN) approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision-Making Theory and Methodology for Water, Energy and Food Security)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,458 Views
21 Pages

11 September 2018

The research presented in this paper studied interrelationships within the perceptions of pedestrian and cyclist environments, travel behaviors, and a particular subset of social networks characterized by their being usual trip or activity companions...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
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  • Open Access
88 Citations
27,607 Views
18 Pages

Social Networks Marketing and Consumer Purchase Behavior: The Combination of SEM and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches

  • Pejman Ebrahimi,
  • Marjan Basirat,
  • Ali Yousefi,
  • Md. Nekmahmud,
  • Abbas Gholampour and
  • Maria Fekete-Farkas

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how social network marketing (SNM) can affect consumers’ purchase behavior (CPB). We used the combination of structural equation modeling (SEM) and unsupervised machine learning approaches as an innovative...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,864 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2022

Behavioral steganography is a method used to achieve covert communication based on the sender’s behaviors. It has attracted a great deal of attention due to its robustness and wide application scenarios. Current behavioral steganographic method...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,994 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2023

Objective: To identify patterns of social dysfunction in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), study the potential linkage between social brain networks and stereotyped behavior, and further explore potential targets of non-invasive nerve...

(This article belongs to the Section Developmental Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,391 Views
21 Pages

24 November 2022

Since construction involves many stakeholders and their behavioral risk interaction, which brings risks to the project construction, it is necessary to strengthen the research on the risk management of hydropower projects. This study comprehensively...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Construction and Project Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,195 Views
13 Pages

The Effects of Social Networking Services on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Mega-Events during the Riyadh Season: A Theory of Planned Behavior Model

  • Dayal Ali W. Al-Khaldy,
  • Thowayeb H. Hassan,
  • Ahmed Hassan Abdou,
  • Mostafa A. Abdelmoaty and
  • Amany E. Salem

4 November 2022

The economic, cultural and environmental benefits of mega-events justify conducting tourism research articles based on tourists’ intention to visit the event destination. These decisions are likely influenced by behavioral attributes and social...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Festivals and Events)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,235 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2019

In order to better understand tourists’ multi-attraction travel behavior, the present study developed a research model by combining the social network analysis technique with the structural equation model. The object of this study was to examin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marketing for Sustainable Tourism)
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  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,061 Views
21 Pages

This paper aims to investigate how social network marketing affects consumers’ sustainable purchase behavior (CSPB) while considering the role of Eco-friendly attitude. The statistical population of the study included Iranian users of online so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
20,441 Views
21 Pages

9 November 2023

This study aimed to detect college students’ daily peer networks through a behavioral big-data-driven social network analysis and to explore the relationship between college students’ daily peer relationships and academic achievement. We...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,316 Views
18 Pages

Habitat Quality and Social Behavioral Association Network in a Wintering Waterbirds Community

  • Muhammad Awais Rasool,
  • Muhammad Azher Hassan,
  • Xiaobo Zhang,
  • Qing Zeng,
  • Yifei Jia,
  • Li Wen and
  • Guangchun Lei

27 May 2021

Migratory waterbirds concentrated in freshwater ecosystems in mosaic environments rely on quality habitats for overwintering. At West Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve (WDLNNR), China, land-use change and hydrology alternation are compounding fac...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,125 Views
21 Pages

Climate change poses a huge threat. Social networking sites (SNSs) have become sources of human–environment interactions and shaped the societal perception of climate change and its effect on society. This study, based on the extended parallel proces...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,570 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2025

Rapid urbanization in China has intensified spatial and social disparities between urban and rural areas, posing major challenges to sustainable rural development. Traditional top-down rural construction and evaluation models often neglect villagers&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,756 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

Rapid population aging calls for a shift from static facility configuration toward understanding how spatial structures coordinate with everyday behavior. This study develops a structure–behavior coordination framework to examine how the spatia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Age-Friendly Built Environment and Sustainable Architectural Design)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,483 Views
29 Pages

18 April 2024

Megaproject Social Responsibility (MSR) is widely acknowledged as contributing to project performance. However, the effect of Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior (MSRB) implemented by organizations participating in construction on project perf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Infrastructure and Resilient, Sustainable Buildings)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,250 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2023

Green consumption is an important tool to accelerate the circular economy and promote sustainable development. The identification of critical influencing factors for green consumption is the key to promoting green consumption behavior (GCB). Firstly,...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,478 Views
16 Pages

In view of the growing importance of social networking sites (SNS) to adolescents and the mixed and inconclusive empirical evidence on the relationships between SNS use and their well-being, the present study aimed to investigate the associations of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Internet-Related Addictions: Psychosocial Antecedents and Outcomes)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,571 Views
21 Pages

Social Networks Marketing, Value Co-Creation, and Consumer Purchase Behavior: Combining PLS-SEM and NCA

  • Farzin Arbabi,
  • Seyed Mohammad Khansari,
  • Aidin Salamzadeh,
  • Abbas Gholampour,
  • Pejman Ebrahimi and
  • Maria Fekete-Farkas

Given the mediating role of value co-creation, this paper tries to demonstrate how social network marketing (SNM) could influence consumer purchase behavior (CPB). The proposed hypotheses are empirically tested in this study using a PLS-SEM and Neces...

(This article belongs to the Collection Business Performance)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,654 Views
34 Pages

13 December 2024

The rapid growth of the digital economy has significantly enhanced the convenience of information transmission while reducing its costs. As a result, the participation in social networks (SNs) has surged, intensifying the mutual influence among netwo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,459 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2020

Social networking sites (SNSs) are now ubiquitous communities for constant online interpersonal interactions that trigger symmetric or asymmetric effects on our everyday life. Recent studies advocate in favor of the significant role that SNSs have in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Social Data and Artificial Intelligence 2019)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,563 Views
16 Pages

1 December 2020

This study explores whether social interaction with dissimilar others can lead to pro-environmental behavior. Dissimilar others are people who differ from the person in question (e.g., in terms of lifestyle or culture). While most research focuses on...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,112 Views
13 Pages

Adolescents nowadays spend much time communicating via social networks. Recent investigations also report a noticeable proportion showing a problematic usage behavior, underlining the importance of better understanding its development and maintenance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet and Smartphone Use-Related Addiction Health Problems: Treatment, Education and Research)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,433 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2025

Many social and environmental variables can affect the interactions among individuals in an insect colony that fundamentally structure its social organization. Along with important attributes such as age and caste, immunity-related factors such as th...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Insects and Apiculture)
  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
14,881 Views
29 Pages

Using Web 2.0 and Social Media Technologies to Foster Proenvironmental Action

  • Matthew T. Ballew,
  • Allen M. Omoto and
  • Patricia L. Winter

7 August 2015

Research from a variety of disciplines suggests that online technologies (i.e., Web 2.0 and social media) have considerable potential for spurring proenvironmental action; however, relatively little work examines how to effectively capitalize on thes...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,806 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2019

Abusive supervision has been recognized as a serious threat to the health of affected employees and to the sustainable development of organizations. Yet, the mechanism through which abusive supervision affects organizational performance is not well u...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
19,387 Views
21 Pages

Financial Literacy and Sustainable Consumer Behavior

  • Ester Muñoz-Céspedes,
  • Raquel Ibar-Alonso and
  • Sara de Lorenzo Ros

16 August 2021

A more sustainable society and economy also implies more sustainable behavior in terms of the consumption of financial products. A possible change in this behavior can be brought about when there is a change in the demand. In other words, more sustai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Changes on Consumer Behavior for a Sustainable World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,769 Views
12 Pages

Social media is used as a platform to not only make connections and share user-generated content but also to advertise products. We study the role of opinion leadership on the social media networking website of Facebook for product advertisements thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,457 Views
24 Pages

Understanding Pro-Environmental Behavior of Citizen Science: An Exploratory Study of the Bird Survey in Taoyuan’s Farm Ponds Project

  • Shan-Hui Chao,
  • Jin-Zhang Jiang,
  • Kuan-Chu Wei,
  • Eric Ng,
  • Chia-Hsuan Hsu,
  • Yi-Te Chiang and
  • Wei-Ta Fang

This exploratory study aims to fill the gap by adopting Hirose’s two-phase decision-making model with the theory of social networks to explore the environmentally friendly attitudes and environmental behavioral intentions toward pro-environmental beh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pro-environmental Behavior – Social and Cultural Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,065 Views
21 Pages

The rise of social media has democratized information sharing, allowing ordinary individuals to become influential voices in public discourse. However, traditional methods for identifying influential users rely primarily on network centrality measure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Era of Influencer Journalism: Blurring the Lines Between Reporting and Branding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,669 Views
21 Pages

12 June 2019

It is important to understand the creative processes of social value networks in terms of the interdependent connections between fashion sharing economy businesses and consumers. In particular, when the similarity in the values of each member is shar...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,583 Views
15 Pages

The Interaction between Serotonin Transporter Allelic Variation and Maternal Care Modulates Instagram Sociability in a Sample of Singaporean Users

  • Andrea Bonassi,
  • Ilaria Cataldo,
  • Giulio Gabrieli,
  • Moses Tandiono,
  • Jia Nee Foo,
  • Bruno Lepri and
  • Gianluca Esposito

Human social interactions ensure recognition and approval from others, both in offline and online environments. This study applies a model from behavioral genetics on Instagram sociability to explore the impact of individual development on behavior o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Innovations in Mental Health and Public Health)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,459 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2023

Wild chimpanzees live in large and complex social communities, but their complexity is determined by the number of potential social partners as well as the frequent changes in group composition due to fission–fusion dynamics. Alternatively, cap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Ecologies 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,695 Views
18 Pages

Does Attentional Style Moderate the Relationship between Time Perspective and Social Network Addiction? A Cross-Sectional Study on a Sample of Social Networking Sites Users

  • Silvana Miceli,
  • Fabrizio Scrima,
  • Maurizio Cardaci,
  • Giuseppe Quatrosi,
  • Luigi Vetri,
  • Michele Roccella and
  • Barbara Caci

2 September 2021

The present study investigates the role of attentional style as a moderator variable between temporal perspective and social network addiction, since little is known about users’ cognitive variables involved in this kind of addictive behavior. To ach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Clinical Psychology)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,630 Views
17 Pages

16 March 2022

With the development of information networks, information diffusion becomes increasingly complicated in social networks, and the influence from different neighbors presents asymmetry. Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT), which orients the human interactio...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
3,322 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2025

Animal behavior recognition is an important research area that provides insights into areas such as neural functions, gene mutations, and drug efficacy, among others. The manual coding of behaviors based on video recordings is labor-intensive and pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Bio and Healthcare Informatics)
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  • Open Access
389 Views
26 Pages

8 July 2026

Information systems (IS) innovation by employees is critical for digital transformation, yet prior research often examines external social resources and internal cognitive antecedents separately. From a systems perspective, we integrate social capita...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
14,990 Views
38 Pages

9 August 2022

Severe abuse of social media has currently become a threat to social sustainability. Although “responsible use of social media” has recently attracted academics’ attention, few studies have investigated the psychosocial antecedents...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)

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