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• Adult Interests a 'bible' of interests research was recently republished Thorndike Press (ISBN 978-1406750317) and is available on Amazon.

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• A very interesting book about was published recently by by Paul J. Silvia Exploring the Psychology of Interest

Here is the book review from Amazon.com: Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. And homepage of the author

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• Is interest like other emotions? What functions does interest serve? What makes something interesting? Is interest merely another label for happiness? - A good article of the same author Interest—The Curious Emotion Current Directions in Psychological Science, Volume 17, Number 1, February 2008 , pp. 57-60(4)

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• Paolillo, J. C., & Wright, E. (2005). Social network analysis on the Semantic Web In V. Geroimenko & C. Chen (Eds.), Visualizing the Semantic Web (2nd ed., pp. 229-242). Berlin: Springer. A very good article about FOAF, LiveJornal profiles, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA)

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• John C. Paolillo, Sarah Mercure and Elijah Wright The Social Semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and Change from 2004 to 2005

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• The Social Life of Books:Visualizing Communities of Interest via Purchase Patterns on the WWW

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• Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances an article by Hugo Liu (2007). Social network profiles as taste performances. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 13. The article has references to previous research. Here is it's abstract:

his study examines how a social network profile's lists of interests—music, books, movies, television shows, etc.—can function as an expressive arena for taste performance. By composing interest tokens around a theme, profile users craft their "taste statements." First, socioeconomic and aesthetic influences on taste are considered, and the expressivity of interest tokens is analyzed using a semiotic framework. Then, a grounded theory approach is taken to identify four types of taste statements—those that convey prestige, differentiation, authenticity, and theatrical persona. The semantics of taste and taste statements are further investigated through a statistical analysis of 127,477 profiles collected from the MySpace social network site between November 2006 and January 2007. The major findings of the analysis include statistical evidence for prestige and differentiation taste statements and an interpretation of the taste semantics underlying the MySpace community—its motifs, paradigms, and demographic structures.

Another very important article Liu, H., & Maes, P. (2005). InterestMap: Harvesting social network profiles for recommendations. Proceedings of the IUI'2005 Beyond Personalization Workshop (pp. 54-59).

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