Browsing by Subject "Social Perception"
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Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood.
(Dev Psychopathol, 2010-08)This study tested a developmental cascade model of peer rejection, social information processing (SIP), and aggression using data from 585 children assessed at 12 time points from kindergarten through Grade 3. Peer rejection ... -
Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).
(J Comp Psychol, 2013-02)Humans make decisions about when and with whom to cooperate based on their reputations. People either learn about others by direct interaction or by observing third-party interactions or gossip. An important question is ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior ... -
Looking past the model species: diversity in gaze-following skills across primates.
(Curr Opin Neurobiol, 2009-02)Primates must navigate complex social landscapes in their daily lives: gathering information from and about others, competing with others for food and mates, and cooperating to obtain rewards as well. Gaze-following often ... -
Neural systems for guilt from actions affecting self versus others.
(Neuroimage, 2012-03)Guilt is a core emotion governing social behavior by promoting compliance with social norms or self-imposed standards. The goal of this study was to contrast guilty responses to actions that affect self versus others, since ... -
Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children.
(Child Dev, 2003-03)The relation between social rejection and growth in antisocial behavior was investigated. In Study 1,259 boys and girls (34% African American) were followed from Grades 1 to 3 (ages 6-8 years) to Grades 5 to 7 (ages 10-12 ... -
Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania.
(AIDS Care, 2012)It is estimated that 5.6% of the Tanzanian population ages 15-49 are infected with HIV, but only 30% of adults have ever had an HIV test. Couples' testing has proven to increase testing coverage and introduce HIV prevention, ... -
Perceived discrimination and health: a meta-analytic review.
(Psychol Bull, 2009-07)Perceived discrimination has been studied with regard to its impact on several types of health effects. This meta-analysis provides a comprehensive account of the relationships between multiple forms of perceived discrimination ... -
Putting together phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on empathy.
(Dev Cogn Neurosci, 2012-01)The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological underpinnings. Even the most advanced forms ... -
Two Distinct Moral Mechanisms for Ascribing and Denying Intentionality.
(Sci Rep, 2015-12-04)Philosophers and legal scholars have long theorized about how intentionality serves as a critical input for morality and culpability, but the emerging field of experimental philosophy has revealed a puzzling asymmetry. People ... -
Why do nominal characteristics acquire status value? A minimal explanation for status construction.
(AJS, 2009-11)Why do beliefs that attach different amounts of status to different categories of people become consensually held by the members of a society? We show that two microlevel mechanisms, in combination, imply a system-level ...
