Peter Pirolli
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195173321
- eISBN:
- 9780199893232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173321.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter reviews findings in various fields that may provide the basis for the development of theories of foraging by social groups. The power of cooperation is related to the amount of diversity ...
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This chapter reviews findings in various fields that may provide the basis for the development of theories of foraging by social groups. The power of cooperation is related to the amount of diversity of the information foragers. Greater diversity leads to greater returns for the group and the individual. This is related to the notion that brokerage (diverse social contacts) provides social capital, and there is evidence which suggests that brokers in the flow of information are more likely to be sources of innovative discoveries. Although there are benefits to co-operation, those benefits trade against interference effects that ultimately seem to limit the size of groups. In addition, because of the diversity of individuals and because of the way people associate with like-minded people, information is typically likely to flow to small finite-sized groups. The chapter presents mathematical models that capture the basic elements of these results.Less
This chapter reviews findings in various fields that may provide the basis for the development of theories of foraging by social groups. The power of cooperation is related to the amount of diversity of the information foragers. Greater diversity leads to greater returns for the group and the individual. This is related to the notion that brokerage (diverse social contacts) provides social capital, and there is evidence which suggests that brokers in the flow of information are more likely to be sources of innovative discoveries. Although there are benefits to co-operation, those benefits trade against interference effects that ultimately seem to limit the size of groups. In addition, because of the diversity of individuals and because of the way people associate with like-minded people, information is typically likely to flow to small finite-sized groups. The chapter presents mathematical models that capture the basic elements of these results.
Thomas Mussweiler, Andrew R. Todd, and Jan Crusius
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262018081
- eISBN:
- 9780262306027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018081.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
To navigate their social worlds successfully, humans must coordinate their own behavior with the behaviors of others. Because human behavior takes place in a complex social world, it imposes high ...
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To navigate their social worlds successfully, humans must coordinate their own behavior with the behaviors of others. Because human behavior takes place in a complex social world, it imposes high demand on cognitive capacity. Yet the cognitive resources available to humans to meet this demand are relatively limited. Selectivity is a crucial element in social cognition. Only through informational selection are humans able to make decisions that are simultaneously adaptive and efficient. This chapter reviews evidence from social cognition research which demonstrates that humans are selective in the social information they attend to, the manner in which they process this information, and the behaviors they ultimately enact. This selectivity in social attention, social thinking, and social behavior is an adaptive tool that helps humans successfully maneuver through their complex social worlds.Less
To navigate their social worlds successfully, humans must coordinate their own behavior with the behaviors of others. Because human behavior takes place in a complex social world, it imposes high demand on cognitive capacity. Yet the cognitive resources available to humans to meet this demand are relatively limited. Selectivity is a crucial element in social cognition. Only through informational selection are humans able to make decisions that are simultaneously adaptive and efficient. This chapter reviews evidence from social cognition research which demonstrates that humans are selective in the social information they attend to, the manner in which they process this information, and the behaviors they ultimately enact. This selectivity in social attention, social thinking, and social behavior is an adaptive tool that helps humans successfully maneuver through their complex social worlds.
Erin B. McClure and Daniel S. Pine
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195306255
- eISBN:
- 9780199863914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306255.003.0010
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Development
This chapter reviews the literature on mechanisms that underlie the onset and evolution of adolescent anxiety disorders as they relate to the development of anxiety in youth. It begins by examining ...
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This chapter reviews the literature on mechanisms that underlie the onset and evolution of adolescent anxiety disorders as they relate to the development of anxiety in youth. It begins by examining adolescents' increased risk for anxiety disorders and the roles that social and biological, particularly neural, changes may play in its onset. Particular attention is given to the Social Information Processing Network (SIPN) which has both early (emotional) and later maturing (cognitive control) components. It then considers alterations in patterns of cognition that are associated with adolescent anxiety disorders, as well as their putative underlying neural mechanisms. The chapter describes an approach to studying the intersections among adolescent psychopathology, emotion and cognition, and underlying neural substrates. Finally, possible prevention approaches that integrate neuroscience and clinical research are presented.Less
This chapter reviews the literature on mechanisms that underlie the onset and evolution of adolescent anxiety disorders as they relate to the development of anxiety in youth. It begins by examining adolescents' increased risk for anxiety disorders and the roles that social and biological, particularly neural, changes may play in its onset. Particular attention is given to the Social Information Processing Network (SIPN) which has both early (emotional) and later maturing (cognitive control) components. It then considers alterations in patterns of cognition that are associated with adolescent anxiety disorders, as well as their putative underlying neural mechanisms. The chapter describes an approach to studying the intersections among adolescent psychopathology, emotion and cognition, and underlying neural substrates. Finally, possible prevention approaches that integrate neuroscience and clinical research are presented.
Peter Pirolli
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195173321
- eISBN:
- 9780199893232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173321.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter discusses ways in which Information-Foraging Theory could be extended to include a broader range of psychological and social phenomena and a broader range of information technologies. ...
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This chapter discusses ways in which Information-Foraging Theory could be extended to include a broader range of psychological and social phenomena and a broader range of information technologies. Topics covered include social information foraging, fine-grained details of cognition, perception, and attention (e.g. eye movements), expertise, learning, individual differences, and a more inclusive set of tasks related to information-foraging.Less
This chapter discusses ways in which Information-Foraging Theory could be extended to include a broader range of psychological and social phenomena and a broader range of information technologies. Topics covered include social information foraging, fine-grained details of cognition, perception, and attention (e.g. eye movements), expertise, learning, individual differences, and a more inclusive set of tasks related to information-foraging.
Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262018081
- eISBN:
- 9780262306027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018081.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
A neuroethological approach to decision making posits that neural circuits mediating choice evolved through natural selection to link sensory systems flexibly to motor output in a way that enhances ...
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A neuroethological approach to decision making posits that neural circuits mediating choice evolved through natural selection to link sensory systems flexibly to motor output in a way that enhances the fit between behavior and the local environment. This chapter discusses basic prerequisites for a variety of decision systems from this viewpoint, with a focus on two of the best studied and most widely represented decision problems. The first is patch leaving, a prototype of environmentally based switching between action patterns. The second is social information seeking, a behavior that, while functionally distinct from foraging, can be addressed in a similar framework. It is argued that while the specific neural solutions to these problems sometimes differ across species, both the problems themselves and the algorithms instantiated by biological hardware are repeated widely throughout nature. The behavioral and mathematical study of ubiquitous decision processes like patch leaving and information seeking thus provides a powerful new approach to uncovering the fundamental design structure of nervous systems.Less
A neuroethological approach to decision making posits that neural circuits mediating choice evolved through natural selection to link sensory systems flexibly to motor output in a way that enhances the fit between behavior and the local environment. This chapter discusses basic prerequisites for a variety of decision systems from this viewpoint, with a focus on two of the best studied and most widely represented decision problems. The first is patch leaving, a prototype of environmentally based switching between action patterns. The second is social information seeking, a behavior that, while functionally distinct from foraging, can be addressed in a similar framework. It is argued that while the specific neural solutions to these problems sometimes differ across species, both the problems themselves and the algorithms instantiated by biological hardware are repeated widely throughout nature. The behavioral and mathematical study of ubiquitous decision processes like patch leaving and information seeking thus provides a powerful new approach to uncovering the fundamental design structure of nervous systems.
Yoram M. Kalman, Daphne R. Raban, and Sheizaf Rafaeli
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199639540
- eISBN:
- 9780191747748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639540.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter suggests that social interaction is changing, as increasingly greater portions of human creativity, conversations, and social ties are digitized and mediated by computers. The chapter ...
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This chapter suggests that social interaction is changing, as increasingly greater portions of human creativity, conversations, and social ties are digitized and mediated by computers. The chapter examines this “netification” process, and discusses its consequences for the online presentation of the self and of the other, and also for groups online. The present effects of the laws that govern information on cognition and social behavior are discussed, and some of the major societal and personal consequences of “netification” on work and leisure, on the private and public, and on space and time are reviewed. The chapter makes recommendations for multifaceted research as well as social cognition considerations in systems design.Less
This chapter suggests that social interaction is changing, as increasingly greater portions of human creativity, conversations, and social ties are digitized and mediated by computers. The chapter examines this “netification” process, and discusses its consequences for the online presentation of the self and of the other, and also for groups online. The present effects of the laws that govern information on cognition and social behavior are discussed, and some of the major societal and personal consequences of “netification” on work and leisure, on the private and public, and on space and time are reviewed. The chapter makes recommendations for multifaceted research as well as social cognition considerations in systems design.
Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199608966
- eISBN:
- 9780191804656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199608966.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Research on social learning has focused traditionally on whether animals possess the cognitive ability to learn novel motor patterns from tutors. More recently, social learning has included the use ...
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Research on social learning has focused traditionally on whether animals possess the cognitive ability to learn novel motor patterns from tutors. More recently, social learning has included the use of others as sources of inadvertent social information. This type of social learning seems more taxonomically widespread and its use can more readily be approached as an economic decision. Social sampling information, however, can be tricky to use and calls for a more lucid appraisal of its costs. In this four-part review, we address these costs. Firstly, we address the possibility that only a fraction of group members are actually providing social information at any one time. Secondly, we review experimental research which shows that animals are circumspect about social information use. Thirdly, we consider the cases where social information can lead to incorrect decisions and finally, we review studies investigating the effect of social information quality. We address the possibility that using social information or not is not a binary decision and present results of a study showing that nutmeg mannikins combine both sources of information, a condition that can lead to the establishment of informational cascades. We discuss the importance of empirically investigating the economics of social information use.Less
Research on social learning has focused traditionally on whether animals possess the cognitive ability to learn novel motor patterns from tutors. More recently, social learning has included the use of others as sources of inadvertent social information. This type of social learning seems more taxonomically widespread and its use can more readily be approached as an economic decision. Social sampling information, however, can be tricky to use and calls for a more lucid appraisal of its costs. In this four-part review, we address these costs. Firstly, we address the possibility that only a fraction of group members are actually providing social information at any one time. Secondly, we review experimental research which shows that animals are circumspect about social information use. Thirdly, we consider the cases where social information can lead to incorrect decisions and finally, we review studies investigating the effect of social information quality. We address the possibility that using social information or not is not a binary decision and present results of a study showing that nutmeg mannikins combine both sources of information, a condition that can lead to the establishment of informational cascades. We discuss the importance of empirically investigating the economics of social information use.
Jessica C. Flack, Peter Hammerstein, and David C. Krakauer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262018081
- eISBN:
- 9780262306027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018081.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Defined as the invariance of system structure or function following a nontrivial perturbation to one or more important system components, robustness is a characteristic property of all adaptive ...
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Defined as the invariance of system structure or function following a nontrivial perturbation to one or more important system components, robustness is a characteristic property of all adaptive systems. This chapter reviews the theory of robustness in biology, the design of experiments used to assay robustness (including the functional behavior or outputs of a system), and the adaptive response of those parts or components which are compromised by a perturbation. Emphasis is given to a rigorous logic of measurement that carefully factors apart the many causal contributions to robust function. Insights from the study of robustness in biology are applied to the social and decision-making domains, and modifications of experimental design and theory are proposed to account for challenges unique to human agents.Less
Defined as the invariance of system structure or function following a nontrivial perturbation to one or more important system components, robustness is a characteristic property of all adaptive systems. This chapter reviews the theory of robustness in biology, the design of experiments used to assay robustness (including the functional behavior or outputs of a system), and the adaptive response of those parts or components which are compromised by a perturbation. Emphasis is given to a rigorous logic of measurement that carefully factors apart the many causal contributions to robust function. Insights from the study of robustness in biology are applied to the social and decision-making domains, and modifications of experimental design and theory are proposed to account for challenges unique to human agents.
Maggie Shiffrar
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199231751
- eISBN:
- 9780191696527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231751.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter reviews the psychophysical and neurophysiological findings regarding the perception of social information from large-scale bodily movements. It shows that the human visual system ...
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This chapter reviews the psychophysical and neurophysiological findings regarding the perception of social information from large-scale bodily movements. It shows that the human visual system integrates human and non-human motions differently over time. It also shows that visual processing is affected by the similarity between the perceived image features of motion representations in the observer and the observed actor. Thus, the human visual system is regarded as an inherently social organ that allows people to read bodily expressions of others with ease in their daily lives.Less
This chapter reviews the psychophysical and neurophysiological findings regarding the perception of social information from large-scale bodily movements. It shows that the human visual system integrates human and non-human motions differently over time. It also shows that visual processing is affected by the similarity between the perceived image features of motion representations in the observer and the observed actor. Thus, the human visual system is regarded as an inherently social organ that allows people to read bodily expressions of others with ease in their daily lives.
Ira G. Federspiel, Nicola S. Clayton, and Nathan J. Emery (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226169354
- eISBN:
- 9780226169378
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169378.003.0014
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This chapter illustrates how integrating knowledge about animals' natural behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history with the powerful empirical techniques of experimental psychology has helped us ...
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This chapter illustrates how integrating knowledge about animals' natural behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history with the powerful empirical techniques of experimental psychology has helped us to understand the use of social information by different bird species. To understand these mechanisms and to define the ways in which they differ between species, an integrative approach must be adopted combining the 3Es with knowledge of experimental psychology, to obtain rigorous experimental validity. More comparative work is clearly needed to determine the influence of ecology and evolutionary history on social information use, and experiments using different tasks should shed light on whether the capacity to use social information is domain specific. The knowledge of the 3Es can thus be used to influence a particular species' life history, not only to drive the development of appropriate research questions and methodology but also to provide post hoc explanations of successes and failures in psychological experiments.Less
This chapter illustrates how integrating knowledge about animals' natural behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history with the powerful empirical techniques of experimental psychology has helped us to understand the use of social information by different bird species. To understand these mechanisms and to define the ways in which they differ between species, an integrative approach must be adopted combining the 3Es with knowledge of experimental psychology, to obtain rigorous experimental validity. More comparative work is clearly needed to determine the influence of ecology and evolutionary history on social information use, and experiments using different tasks should shed light on whether the capacity to use social information is domain specific. The knowledge of the 3Es can thus be used to influence a particular species' life history, not only to drive the development of appropriate research questions and methodology but also to provide post hoc explanations of successes and failures in psychological experiments.
Brandon Van Der Heide and Erin M. Schumaker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199639540
- eISBN:
- 9780191747748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639540.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter explores a variety of facets of computer-mediated persuasion and the gaining of compliance. The chapter opens with a discussion of two important theoretical frameworks that have ...
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This chapter explores a variety of facets of computer-mediated persuasion and the gaining of compliance. The chapter opens with a discussion of two important theoretical frameworks that have influenced the contemporary study of persuasion and compliance gaining online: The heuristic—systematic model and social information processing theory. A new sociotechnical influence model is proposed, and is used to frame the current research in the study of online persuasion and compliance gaining. Finally, several implications and new directions suggested by this model are explored including the development of interpersonal credibility impressions online, the strength of online cues, and the ways that communication in online spaces may have self-influential effects on attitudes.Less
This chapter explores a variety of facets of computer-mediated persuasion and the gaining of compliance. The chapter opens with a discussion of two important theoretical frameworks that have influenced the contemporary study of persuasion and compliance gaining online: The heuristic—systematic model and social information processing theory. A new sociotechnical influence model is proposed, and is used to frame the current research in the study of online persuasion and compliance gaining. Finally, several implications and new directions suggested by this model are explored including the development of interpersonal credibility impressions online, the strength of online cues, and the ways that communication in online spaces may have self-influential effects on attitudes.
José B. Ashford and Melissa Kupferberg
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195329469
- eISBN:
- 9780199367603
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195329469.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
This chapter describes some of the promising frameworks in the social science literature that can help mitigation professionals identify substantive differences in how defendants evaluate information ...
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This chapter describes some of the promising frameworks in the social science literature that can help mitigation professionals identify substantive differences in how defendants evaluate information and choose among subjectively available response choices. It begins with a brief review of the law of criminal provocation. It then examines recent developments in self-control theory that call into question a number of traditional ways of framing issues of choice and hostile (reactive) aggression. Next, it turns to the social information processing (SIP) model of human decision-making processes. It considers how the SIP framework can help practitioners identify dysfunctions in social cognitive processes and how these social cognitive processes interact with latent cognitive structures (attitudes, values, and beliefs), and non-conscious processes that are significantly influenced by a person's social and cultural background.Less
This chapter describes some of the promising frameworks in the social science literature that can help mitigation professionals identify substantive differences in how defendants evaluate information and choose among subjectively available response choices. It begins with a brief review of the law of criminal provocation. It then examines recent developments in self-control theory that call into question a number of traditional ways of framing issues of choice and hostile (reactive) aggression. Next, it turns to the social information processing (SIP) model of human decision-making processes. It considers how the SIP framework can help practitioners identify dysfunctions in social cognitive processes and how these social cognitive processes interact with latent cognitive structures (attitudes, values, and beliefs), and non-conscious processes that are significantly influenced by a person's social and cultural background.
Edward H. Hagen, Nick Chater, Charles R. Gallistel, Alasdair Houston, Alex Kacelnik, Tobias Kalenscher, Daniel Nettle, Danny Oppenheimer, and David W. Stephens
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262018081
- eISBN:
- 9780262306027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018081.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter examines the contributions that evolutionary theory can make to an integrated science of decision making. It begins with a discussion of classical decision theory and analyzes the ...
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This chapter examines the contributions that evolutionary theory can make to an integrated science of decision making. It begins with a discussion of classical decision theory and analyzes the conceptual and empirical failures of this approach. Mechanistic explanations, which do not explicitly invoke evolutionary arguments, are presented to account for these failures. Thereafter, evolutionary approaches to decision making are examined and the failures revisited in light of evolutionary theory. It is shown that in some cases “irrational” behavior might be adaptive. The chapter concludes by exploring the open questions, levels of analysis, and policy implications that an evolutionary approach can bring to decision making.Less
This chapter examines the contributions that evolutionary theory can make to an integrated science of decision making. It begins with a discussion of classical decision theory and analyzes the conceptual and empirical failures of this approach. Mechanistic explanations, which do not explicitly invoke evolutionary arguments, are presented to account for these failures. Thereafter, evolutionary approaches to decision making are examined and the failures revisited in light of evolutionary theory. It is shown that in some cases “irrational” behavior might be adaptive. The chapter concludes by exploring the open questions, levels of analysis, and policy implications that an evolutionary approach can bring to decision making.
Frédérique Dubois, Philipp Heeb, Sasha R. X. Dall, and Luc-Alain Giraldeau
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036122
- eISBN:
- 9780262339803
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036122.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
In behavioral ecology, the behavioral consequences of individuals (exploiters) using the investments of others (investors), rather than investing time or effort in procuring a resource themselves, ...
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In behavioral ecology, the behavioral consequences of individuals (exploiters) using the investments of others (investors), rather than investing time or effort in procuring a resource themselves, has been traditionally studied using the producer–scrounger (PS) model—a simple evolutionary game theoretic model in which producers (investors) search for resources while scroungers (exploiters) use the resources found by producers. A key assumption in the PS model is that the producer remains passive toward scroungers. As the presence of scroungers is costly, evidence is reviewed that one major consequence of having exploiters is the adoption by producers of strategies that reduce the benefits of scroungers, giving rise to countermeasures by scroungers. Scroungers also affect population structure by generating consistent differences among individuals and affecting spatial preferences within groups. Reviewing the impact of scrounging on populations should help generate parallels to explore the consequences of exploitative behavior in economics and public health.Less
In behavioral ecology, the behavioral consequences of individuals (exploiters) using the investments of others (investors), rather than investing time or effort in procuring a resource themselves, has been traditionally studied using the producer–scrounger (PS) model—a simple evolutionary game theoretic model in which producers (investors) search for resources while scroungers (exploiters) use the resources found by producers. A key assumption in the PS model is that the producer remains passive toward scroungers. As the presence of scroungers is costly, evidence is reviewed that one major consequence of having exploiters is the adoption by producers of strategies that reduce the benefits of scroungers, giving rise to countermeasures by scroungers. Scroungers also affect population structure by generating consistent differences among individuals and affecting spatial preferences within groups. Reviewing the impact of scrounging on populations should help generate parallels to explore the consequences of exploitative behavior in economics and public health.
Cynthia Hudley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110852
- eISBN:
- 9780300151756
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110852.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Some children are prone to a particular kind of aggression when they are with their peers. For these children, any harm done to them—even something as inconsequential as a jostle in the lunch line—is ...
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Some children are prone to a particular kind of aggression when they are with their peers. For these children, any harm done to them—even something as inconsequential as a jostle in the lunch line—is perceived as intentional. Their style of social information processing, termed “hostile attributional bias,” increases the likelihood of retaliating with excessive and inappropriate physical aggression. In this book, parents and professionals who work with children will learn what can be done to better understand and control children's aggression. Beginning with a review of the literature, the author underscores the substantial risks of long-term problems for elementary-school-age children who demonstrate aggressive behavior. Then, drawing on her work as founder of a successful school intervention program, the BrainPower Program, the author describes methods for reducing children's peer-directed aggression. She concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad social contexts in supporting nonaggressive behavior.Less
Some children are prone to a particular kind of aggression when they are with their peers. For these children, any harm done to them—even something as inconsequential as a jostle in the lunch line—is perceived as intentional. Their style of social information processing, termed “hostile attributional bias,” increases the likelihood of retaliating with excessive and inappropriate physical aggression. In this book, parents and professionals who work with children will learn what can be done to better understand and control children's aggression. Beginning with a review of the literature, the author underscores the substantial risks of long-term problems for elementary-school-age children who demonstrate aggressive behavior. Then, drawing on her work as founder of a successful school intervention program, the BrainPower Program, the author describes methods for reducing children's peer-directed aggression. She concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad social contexts in supporting nonaggressive behavior.
Christopher M. Murphy, Amber E. Q. Norwood, and Gina M. Poole
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199936632
- eISBN:
- 9780190223250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199936632.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with an array of negative health consequences that can include poor general health status, increased health service utilization, stress-related ...
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with an array of negative health consequences that can include poor general health status, increased health service utilization, stress-related conditions, physical injuries, and death. Common mental health consequences include depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Many factors, at biological, psychological, and social levels of influences, are correlated with IPV perpetration, yet prominent theoretical models are narrow in focus. This chapter explicates the need for a biopsychosocial model of IPV that is integrative and coherent, and it argues that the social information processing approach can provide an organizing framework for this effort. Factors such as neurocognitive deficits, trauma exposure, and acute alcohol intoxication influence risk for IPV by altering the decoding and interpretation of relationship events and the generation, selection, and evaluation of responses. A more integrative approach to IPV will enhance our ability to understand, prevent, and treat this vexing public health concern.Less
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with an array of negative health consequences that can include poor general health status, increased health service utilization, stress-related conditions, physical injuries, and death. Common mental health consequences include depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Many factors, at biological, psychological, and social levels of influences, are correlated with IPV perpetration, yet prominent theoretical models are narrow in focus. This chapter explicates the need for a biopsychosocial model of IPV that is integrative and coherent, and it argues that the social information processing approach can provide an organizing framework for this effort. Factors such as neurocognitive deficits, trauma exposure, and acute alcohol intoxication influence risk for IPV by altering the decoding and interpretation of relationship events and the generation, selection, and evaluation of responses. A more integrative approach to IPV will enhance our ability to understand, prevent, and treat this vexing public health concern.
Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226169354
- eISBN:
- 9780226169378
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169378.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This book is an attempt to describe cognitive ecology, which focuses on the ecology and evolution of “cognition,” defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use ...
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This book is an attempt to describe cognitive ecology, which focuses on the ecology and evolution of “cognition,” defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use of information. It presents new work on established and emergent research programs relating cognition to avian ecology. The authors find that, with few exceptions, all animals have to make decisions within the four general categories of feeding, predator avoidance, interactions with competitors, and sexual behavior. Few chapters of the book focus on cognitive aspects of decisions made within two of these behavioral categories of reproduction and antipredator behavior. Not much attention has been devoted to cognition at the embryonic stage, but recent experiments reviewed by the authors clearly indicate that embryos possess sophisticated abilities to assess and respond to cues of predation. The book also discusses the social information, social learning, and integrating knowledge about animals' natural behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history with the powerful empirical techniques of experimental psychology.Less
This book is an attempt to describe cognitive ecology, which focuses on the ecology and evolution of “cognition,” defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use of information. It presents new work on established and emergent research programs relating cognition to avian ecology. The authors find that, with few exceptions, all animals have to make decisions within the four general categories of feeding, predator avoidance, interactions with competitors, and sexual behavior. Few chapters of the book focus on cognitive aspects of decisions made within two of these behavioral categories of reproduction and antipredator behavior. Not much attention has been devoted to cognition at the embryonic stage, but recent experiments reviewed by the authors clearly indicate that embryos possess sophisticated abilities to assess and respond to cues of predation. The book also discusses the social information, social learning, and integrating knowledge about animals' natural behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history with the powerful empirical techniques of experimental psychology.
Marilynn B. Brewer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199778188
- eISBN:
- 9780190256043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199778188.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Marilynn B. Brewer discusses three of her studies: the first she considers her most underappreciated work, the second received a delayed appreciation, and the third is appreciated but misunderstood. ...
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Marilynn B. Brewer discusses three of her studies: the first she considers her most underappreciated work, the second received a delayed appreciation, and the third is appreciated but misunderstood. Her most underappreciated contribution was a concept in evolutionary biology, in which she argued that the profound ambivalence between personal self-gratification and self-sacrifice for collective welfare is not a conflict between internal biological motives and external social constraints but rather an internal biological dualism that reflects human evolutionary history as a social species. Her second work was Ethnocentrism and Intergroup Attitudes: East African Evidence, a book on ethnocentric attitudes and intergroup perception in post-colonial East Africa. The book did not garner a reasonable amount of attention in the field of social psychology until more than fifteen years later. Brewer's third work was an article titled “A dual process model of impression formation,”, which describes two distinct modes of processing social information: a category-based (top-down) processing mode and a person-based (bottom-up) processing mode.Less
Marilynn B. Brewer discusses three of her studies: the first she considers her most underappreciated work, the second received a delayed appreciation, and the third is appreciated but misunderstood. Her most underappreciated contribution was a concept in evolutionary biology, in which she argued that the profound ambivalence between personal self-gratification and self-sacrifice for collective welfare is not a conflict between internal biological motives and external social constraints but rather an internal biological dualism that reflects human evolutionary history as a social species. Her second work was Ethnocentrism and Intergroup Attitudes: East African Evidence, a book on ethnocentric attitudes and intergroup perception in post-colonial East Africa. The book did not garner a reasonable amount of attention in the field of social psychology until more than fifteen years later. Brewer's third work was an article titled “A dual process model of impression formation,”, which describes two distinct modes of processing social information: a category-based (top-down) processing mode and a person-based (bottom-up) processing mode.
Stephanie A. Godleski
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190491826
- eISBN:
- 9780190491840
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190491826.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Theoretical models for the development of relational aggression are reviewed, and the evidence in support of these models is briefly discussed. The central goal is to provide an overview of ...
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Theoretical models for the development of relational aggression are reviewed, and the evidence in support of these models is briefly discussed. The central goal is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on the development and maintenance of relational aggression. Theories reviewed include the social information processing (SIP) model of children’s social adjustment (Crick & Dodge, 1994) as well as other important theories, such as an evolutionary explanation of relational aggression, attachment theory, and peer influences. The limitations of our theoretical understanding of relational aggression as well as the ways in which these models may inform future research in the field are discussed.Less
Theoretical models for the development of relational aggression are reviewed, and the evidence in support of these models is briefly discussed. The central goal is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives on the development and maintenance of relational aggression. Theories reviewed include the social information processing (SIP) model of children’s social adjustment (Crick & Dodge, 1994) as well as other important theories, such as an evolutionary explanation of relational aggression, attachment theory, and peer influences. The limitations of our theoretical understanding of relational aggression as well as the ways in which these models may inform future research in the field are discussed.
