Editorial: Perception, Habit, and Connection in Behavioral and Social Analytics

摘要

This editorial introduces Volume 1, Issue 3 of the International Journal of Behavioral and Social Analytics (IJBeSA), comprising fifteen empirical and conceptual contributions from researchers and students across Philippine higher education institutions. The articles collected here examine behavior and social interaction at several levels: the sensory and environmental cues that shape trust and performance, the psychological correlates of interpersonal trust and disengagement, the influence of digital and social media on attitudes and conduct, small-scale behavioral interventions applied to habit and skill formation, public attitudes toward social institutions, and strategies for managing stress and building resilience. Read together, the issue reflects the breadth that behavioral and social analytics now covers as a field, extending from single-subject animal learning studies to survey-based investigations of political attitudes. This editorial situates each contribution within one of six thematic clusters and identifies points of methodological and topical convergence across studies that might otherwise be read in isolation.