social interaction

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandinteraction

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/
us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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interaction
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/
us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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(Definition ofsocialandinteractionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thesocialinteractionwith family members might serve as a normalizing force as it continually confronts patients with reality.
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For the purposes of this analysis the measure was dichotomized to give measures of high and lowsocialinteraction.
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Only one question involves asocialinteractionand all others focus on performance type situations.
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A greater emphasis onsocialinteraction, including play.
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As a regular and central par t of the individual's life,socialinteractioninvolves activity in a public sphere among nonacquaintances.
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That is, bilingualism is not primarily a cognitively based construct; rather, it is an emergent feature ofsocialinteraction.
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In what ways can we reconstruct patterns ofsocialinteractionwithin household, community, or regional systems using ceramic data?
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Each participant in a recurrentsocialinteractioncan learn to predict how the interaction is likely to play out.
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The use of discourse andsocialinteractionfor the management of identity always takes shape and is realised in particular contexts.
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It was found that this group resulted in enhancedsocialinteractionamong the participants and with the staff.
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For those residents who were able to speak and hear, talking was an important form ofsocialinteraction.
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In particular, we have modeledsocialinteractionas a form of situated designing.
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The emphasis is on communication associalinteraction.
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The role of serotonin in human mood andsocialinteraction: insight from altered tryptophan levels.
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Another aspect ofsocialinteractionwas taking turns to speak.
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We contend that the extent and nature of thesocialinteractionchildren experience will influence the development of children's social understanding.
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It is possible that different aspects ofsocialinteractioncontribute to different aspects of the knowledge structure characteristic of theory of mind.
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Here, if we stick to the general issue of the importance of language andsocialinteraction, we could say we are in agreement.
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It is partially the resistance or refractoriness ofsocialinteractionthat stimulates the development of knowledge.
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From this perspective, knowledge is gradually constructed withinsocialinteraction.
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