Browsing by Subject "social"
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A Multiple Goal Perspective on Eating Behavior
(2016)Although people frequently pursue multiple goals simultaneously, these goals often conflict with each other. For instance, consumers may have both a healthy eating goal and a goal to have an enjoyable eating experience. ... -
Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
(2017)Public health data show that many everyday reckless behaviors reach a developmental peak in adolescence, with adolescents engaging in more reckless behaviors than both children and adults. In contrast, most studies ... -
DISI: A Model for Practical Interdisciplinary Education and Social Impact
(2014-04-25)Introduction Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators (DISI) is a model for organizing graduate students at universities to do interdisciplinary, problem-oriented projects for non-profit clients. In its first year, 149 students ... -
Domain-General Affect: Neural Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
(2014)Emotions guide the way individuals interact with the world, influencing nearly every psychological process from attention, to learning, to metacognition. Constructionist models of emotion posit that emotions arise out of ... -
Mind Your Thoughts: Validating a Theory of Mind Battery Using Direct Cortical Recording
(2017-05-04)The cortical area known as the temporal-parietal junction (TPJ) plays an important role in social cognition, including pro-social tendencies, social interactions, and language. The TPJ has been proposed to serve as a nexus ... -
Neural Circuitry of Social Valuation
(2012)Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our decisions — from the mundane to the impossibly complex — continually shape the courses of our lives. In recent years, researchers ... -
The Historical Ecology and Social-Ecological Systems of Kona Coast Coral Reefs: towards 'Peopled' Approaches to Marine Science and Management
(2008-04-23)No corner of the world's oceans is untouched by humans. Yet in marine science, management, and conservation, oceans are consistently treated as 'unpeopled', that is, human systems are divorced systematically from ecological ...
