Mehdi Kargar
Biographic Data
| ID | 7874536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehdi Kargar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehdi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kargar |
| SIGNATURE | KARGAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4270-5239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The echoes of social media friends’ travels
This research examines how social media friends influence each other’s travel decisions by investigating the roles of geographic distance and venue type. Through analysis of over 22 million check-ins from 112,000 users across Foursquare and Twitter platforms, we provide unprecedented empirical evidence of how social influence manifests in actual travel behaviors. Our findings reveal two key patterns: social influence diminishes systematically wit…
Years of Research in Tourism
This study aims to explore the topical growth, patterns, and trends of importance in tourism research over the past three decades (1990–2019). By leveraging a large corpus of 18,725 abstracts from 20 leading tourism journals, we employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to identify, quantify, and semantically interpret the predominant research themes and their evolution within the tourism discipline. The analysis reveals topic distributions across…
Modern Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Bioethics in the Islamic Context
During the last few decades, infertility has been discussed as a socio-cultural and medical dilemma. Infertile couples attempt to overcome this problem, including using assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Similar to other groups, Muslims struggle with various aspects of infertility and its treatments, trying to reconcile the use of ARTs with the regulations in respect of the socio-cultural, legal, ethical, economic, and political factors o…
Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to Predict Patterns of Marijuana Use among Young Iranian Adults
Background : Marijuana use is increasing among adolescents and young adults. Long-term marijuana use magnifies the risk of a wide variety of behavioral, cognitive-emotional, and neurological problems, and can be a gateway to use of other drugs. In the present study, we investigated the cognitive-emotional and behavioral predictors of marijuana use. To this end, young Iranian adults answered questions based on an extended Theory of Planned Behavio…
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Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to Predict Patterns of Marijuana Use among Young Iranian Adults
Background : Marijuana use is increasing among adolescents and young adults. Long-term marijuana use magnifies the risk of a wide variety of behavioral, cognitive-emotional, and neurological problems, and can be a gateway to use of other drugs. In the present study, we investigated the cognitive-emotional and behavioral predictors of marijuana use. To this end, young Iranian adults answered questions based on an extended Theory of Planned Behavio…
Modern Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Bioethics in the Islamic Context
During the last few decades, infertility has been discussed as a socio-cultural and medical dilemma. Infertile couples attempt to overcome this problem, including using assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Similar to other groups, Muslims struggle with various aspects of infertility and its treatments, trying to reconcile the use of ARTs with the regulations in respect of the socio-cultural, legal, ethical, economic, and political factors o…
The echoes of social media friends’ travels
This research examines how social media friends influence each other’s travel decisions by investigating the roles of geographic distance and venue type. Through analysis of over 22 million check-ins from 112,000 users across Foursquare and Twitter platforms, we provide unprecedented empirical evidence of how social influence manifests in actual travel behaviors. Our findings reveal two key patterns: social influence diminishes systematically wit…
Years of Research in Tourism
This study aims to explore the topical growth, patterns, and trends of importance in tourism research over the past three decades (1990–2019). By leveraging a large corpus of 18,725 abstracts from 20 leading tourism journals, we employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to identify, quantify, and semantically interpret the predominant research themes and their evolution within the tourism discipline. The analysis reveals topic distributions across…
Psychology (3 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (2 works) · Social media (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Bioethics (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Business (1 work)