PECULIARITIES OF THE MECHANISM OF MARKING FORMATION WHEN COMMITTING A THEFT USING THE INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES

Author(s):  
N. I. Starostenko ◽  

One of the main ways of achieving mercenary purposes in thefts committed using the information and telecommunication technologies is the application of social engineering techniques implemented through the psychological influence methods and aimed at controlling the consciousness and behavior of people. Late identification of such thefts and the shortcomings when collecting primary material during the preliminary investigation indicate the necessity to study the features of their mechanism of marking formation. The paper deals with the forensic characteristics of the material, ideal, and electronic-digital traces peculiar for this type of crime. Material traces are represented as traces-objects (technical devices adapted for the social engineering methods implementation, SIM cards, bank cards, documents), and traces-displays (biological traces allowing to identify that the theft of funds is committed by a specific person using a particular technical device). As the ideal traces, the authors consider the mental image of a crime committed in the mind of a person presented in the evidence of a victim, suspect (accused), witness, expert, specialist, and other persons, resulting from the illegal remote actions of a suspect (an accused) to have psychological influence (the use of social engineering methods) on a victim using the information and telecommunication technologies. The paper defines digital traces, considers their specific examples depending on the use of the Internet and (or) computer, mobile devices, and the social engineering methods by intruders. The authors formulate the typical trace pattern of analyzed thefts, the knowledge of which allows obtaining the forensically important information on the way and nature of a crime, persons involved in it, and determining the tactics of follow-up law enforcement intelligence and investigative actions.

Author(s):  
Paul F. M. J. Verschure

This chapter presents the Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) theory of the mind and brain of living machines. DAC provides an explanatory framework for biological brains and an integration framework for synthetic ones. DAC builds on several themes presented in the handbook: it integrates different perspectives on mind and brain, exemplifies the synthetic method in understanding living machines, answers well-defined constraints faced by living machines, and provides a route for the convergent validation of anatomy, physiology, and behavior in our explanation of biological living machines. DAC addresses the fundamental question of how a living machine can obtain, retain, and express valid knowledge of its world. We look at the core components of DAC, specific benchmarks derived from the engagement with the physical and the social world (the H4W and the H5W problems) in foraging and human–robot interaction tasks. Lastly we address how DAC targets the UTEM benchmark and the relation with contemporary developments in AI.


2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Szaloky

ABSTRACT This essay readdresses the issue of the social marginalization of women in light of social cognitive theories of schema- and stereotype-driven perception, reasoning, memory, and behavior. The notions of "fundamental attribution error," "stereotype threat," and "outcome dependency" will help elucidate why women's words and actions have traditionally been construed as less consequential than those of their male peers. Moreover, the essay discusses the benefits of the social cognitive model for film scholarship. It argues that social cognition's comprehensive, micro-level understanding of how our habitual, normative reality is constructed can usefully complement those theories of cinematic defamiliarization that invoke the psychology of the mind (e.g., Deleuze's "time-image").


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwandi Sumartias ◽  
Nurtyasih Wibawanti Ratna Amina

The writing purpose to understand and criticize Social Text "Facial OTT (The Face of Hand Catch Operation "KPK (Corruption Eradication Commission). Using research method “Hermeneutic Analysis of Paul Ricouer”, it seeks to understand behind the text as representation and  multi-interpretation. The results showed that two heads of areas whose  gotthe KPK ‘s Hand Catch Operation (OTT), Jambi Governor and West Bandung Regent were "smiling" in front of journalistscoverage. Facial expression (non-verbal communication) of human has a very closely related with its attitude, thoughts and behavior. Body language (especially, facial expression) is an inseparable representation of what is in the mind and heart.  “Wajah OTT” as an important part of language, signs, and symbols and representations require fundamental and comprehensive interpretation. The social interpretation of the smiling of “OTT's face” is increasingly asserted as a representation of the existence of space-time, experience and reference (history) and culture of society, which are mutually related and inseparable. Recommendation, as long as we do not intend or dare to open the meaning behind the social "mask" on the text of "OTT's face" itself through understanding as "the way " and or the "being" of the whole human being as dasein (its history, ideals and habits), so corruption will forever be part of the culture of society.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Amodio ◽  
Mina Cikara

In this article, we present what has been learned so far from the social neuroscience of prejudice. In the following sections, we describe research on how people perceive groups and categorize their members, how prejudice is learned and represented in the mind, how it relates to judgment, perception, emotion, and behavior, and how its effects may be regulated. Rather than provide an exhaustive list of findings, we take a step back and ask: what has the neuroscience approach revealed, so far, about the psychology of prejudice? In each section, we discuss key social neuroscience findings, consider interpretational challenges and connections with the behavioral literature, and highlight how they advance psychological theories of prejudice.


2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Nabil Ahmad Zawawi

Social media is playing an important role to most people these days. People are using it to be connected among peers, updated with the latest information and also for e-commerce purposes. However, apart from its benefits there are others who would use the information obtained from social media in a malicious way such as harvesting personal information for black mailing, information manipulation and tele-marketing. This threat coupled with unsafe social media practice could expose the social media users to being manipulate into sharing sensitive and revealing information about them. In this paper, a preliminary investigation to identify distinct characterizations of unsafe social media habits is presented. For this study, we focused on one particular social engineering attack known as gatekeeper friending. In this attack, a would--be attacker or manipulator of information could exploit information shared over a social network and how an unsafe social media habits could expose its users to such attacks and exploitation. By identifying this habits we hope that a more secure and cautious code of conduct could be established to prevent unwanted disclosure of private information for malicious intention.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 672-679
Author(s):  
Vera Loening-Baucke ◽  
Brenda Cruikshank ◽  
Cassie Savage

The social competence and behavioral profiles of 38 encopretic children were evaluated, and the social competence and behavioral ratings were correlated with physiologic abnormalities found during anorectal manometric and EMG evaluation and with treatment outcome. When defecation was studied, 66% of encopretic children were not able to defecate rectal balloons and 63% were not able to relax the external anal sphincter during defecation attempts. Total social competence and behavior problem scores were not different for boys able and unable to defecate balloons. Total social competence scores were significantly lower in girls unable to defecate balloons than in those able to (P < .006), whereas behavior problem scores were similar in girls able to and unable to defecate. We found that persistence of encopresis at 6-month and 12-month follow-up was not related to the social competence (P > .2) or behavioral scores (P > .2) but was significantly related to the inability to defecate (P < .01) and to the inability to relax the external sphincter during defecation attempts (P < .03).


Author(s):  
David M. Amodio ◽  
Eddie Harmon-Jones

Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary approach to studying the mind and behavior, noted for its appreciation for the dynamic interactions of situational and dispositional processes as they relate to neural and biological mechanisms. In this chapter, we describe the methodological approach of social neuroscience and review research that has applied this approach to address the interplay of the person and situation in the domains of social cognition, attitudes, emotion and motivation, intergroup relations, and personality. We provide critical discussion of how neuroscience may contribute to classic questions in personality and social psychology, and we describe how the social neuroscience approach promotes the integration of dispositional and situational accounts of the mind and behavior.


Author(s):  
David M. Amodio ◽  
Eddie Harmon-Jones ◽  
Elliot Berkman

Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary approach to studying the social mind and behavior by considering their neural and biological underpinnings. This chapter describes the methodological approach of social neuroscience and research that has applied this approach to address the interplay of the person and situation in the domains of social cognition, attitudes, emotion and motivation, intergroup relations, and personality. This chapter illustrates the contribution of neuroscience to classic questions about personality and social psychology, with an emphasis on how the social neuroscience approach promotes the integration of dispositional and situational accounts of the mind and behavior.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.


Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masatsugu Orui

Abstract. Background: Monitoring of suicide rates in the recovery phase following a devastating disaster has been limited. Aim: We report on a 7-year follow-up of the suicide rates in the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred in March 2011. Method: This descriptive study covered the period from March 2009 to February 2018. Period analysis was used to divide the 108-month study period into nine segments, in which suicide rates were compared with national averages using Poisson distribution. Results: Male suicide rates in the affected area from March 2013 to February 2014 increased to a level higher than the national average. After subsequently dropping, the male rates from March 2016 to February 2018 re-increased and showed a greater difference compared with the national averages. The difference became significant in the period from March 2017 to February 2018 ( p = .047). Limitations: Specific reasons for increasing the rates in the recovery phase were not determined. Conclusion: The termination of the provision of free temporary housing might be influential in this context. Provision of temporary housing was terminated from 2016, which increased economic hardship among needy evacuees. Furthermore, disruption of the social connectedness in the temporary housing may have had an influence. Our findings suggest the necessity of suicide rate monitoring even in the recovery phase.


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