LCrowdV: Generating Labeled Videos for Simulation-based Crowd Behavior Learning

We present a novel procedural framework to generate an arbitrary number of labeled crowd videos (LCrowdV). The resulting crowd video datasets are used to design accurate algorithms or training models for crowded scene understanding. Our overall approach is composed of two components: a procedural simulation framework for generating crowd movements and behaviors, and a procedural rendering framework to generate different videos or images. Each video or image is automatically labeled based on the environment, number of pedestrians, density, behavior, flow, lighting conditions, viewpoint, noise, etc. Furthermore, we can increase the realism by combining synthetically-generated behaviors with real-world background videos. We demonstrate the benefits of LCrowdV over prior lableled crowd datasets by improving the accuracy of pedestrian detection and crowd behavior classification algorithms. LCrowdV would be released on the WWW

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for extraversion:Findings from the Genetics of Personality Consortium

Extraversion is a relatively stable and heritable personality trait associated with numerous psychosocial, lifestyle and health outcomes. Despite its substantial heritability, no genetic variants have been detected in previous genome-wide association (GWA) studies, which may be due to relatively small sample sizes of those studies. Here, we report on a large meta-analysis of GWA studies for extraversion in 63,030 subjects in 29 cohorts. Extraversion item data from multiple personality inventories were harmonized across inventories and cohorts. No genome-wide significant associations were found at the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) level but there was one significant hit at the gene level for a long non-coding RNA site (LOC101928162). Genome-wide complex trait analysis in two large cohorts showed that the additive variance explained by common SNPs was not significantly different from zero, but polygenic risk scores, weighted using linkage information, significantly predicted extraversion scores in an independent cohort. These results show that extraversion is a highly polygenic personality trait, with an architecture possibly different from other complex human traits, including other personality traits. Future studies are required to further determine which genetic variants, by what modes of gene action, constitute the heritable nature of extraversion

The effects of psychotherapy

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Personality and Support/Repression of Marginal Social Groups

The authors tested the hypothesis that the high scorers on EPQ extroversion scale express more tollerant and humanitarian attitudes towards the marginal social groups whereas the high scorers on psychoticism take more repressive position. The data collected from 249 Polish subjects by means of Eysenck and Eysenck á1975ñ EPQ questionnaire and the scale measuring attitudes towards different marginal social groups confirmed the assumption. The results are discussed in reference to the role of personality of people responsible for social policy in terms of support or repression aimed at various marginal groups

Beeinflussung, Dogmatismus, Einstellungsänderung, Fernsehen, Film, Konformität, Massenkommunikationsmittel, Meinungsänderung, Nationalismus, Prestige-Suggestibilität, Rundfunk, Tabu, Urteilsänderung, Graphentheorie, Heterostereotyp/Autostereotyp, Jasagetendenz, Kontentanalyse, Latitude of acceptance, Selbstverständlichkeiten, Skalogrammanalyse

Mummendey HD. Beeinflussung, Dogmatismus, Einstellungsänderung, Fernsehen, Film, Konformität, Massenkommunikationsmittel, Meinungsänderung, Nationalismus, Prestige-Suggestibilität, Rundfunk, Tabu, Urteilsänderung, Graphentheorie, Heterostereotyp/Autostereotyp, Jasagetendenz, Kontentanalyse, Latitude of acceptance, Selbstverständlichkeiten, Skalogrammanalyse. In: Arnold W, Eysenck HJ, Meili R, eds. Lexikon der Psychologie. Freiburg: Herder; 1972

Altruism and aggression: The heritability of individual differences

Five questionnaires measuring altruistic and aggressive tendencies were completed by 573 adult twi