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2011
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(2011): Social distance modulates recipient's fairness consideration in the dictator game. An ERP study. In: Biological psychology 88 (2-3), S. 253-262. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.08.009
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21889968 Abstract: Previous research showed that social distance (e.g., being friends or strangers) influences people's fairness consideration and other-regarding behavior. However, it is not entirely clear how social distance influences the recipient's evaluation of (un)fair behavior. In this study, we let people play a dictator game in which they received (un)fair offers from either friends or strangers while their brain potentials were recorded. Results showed that the medial frontal negativity (MFN), a component associated with the processing of expectancy violation, was more negative-going in response to unfair than to fair offers from friends whereas it did not show differential responses to offers from strangers. The P300 was more positive for fair than for unfair offers irrespective of friends or strangers making the offers. These results suggest that violation of social norms can be detected at an early stage of evaluative processing and that this detection can be modulated by social distance. zitiert von 66
Keywords: Adult, Analysis of Variance, Biologie, distance, Event-Related Potentials, P300/physiology, Female, Friends/psychology, Frontal Lobe/physiology, Games, Experimental, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Reward, science direct, Social Distance, Social Values, Verhaltensforschung, Young Adult -
(2011): The communication of anger and disappointment helps to establish cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (3), S. 489-501. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.03.016
Abstract: Abstract Indirect reciprocity is cooperation through reputation: third parties cooperate with those known to cooperate and defect against those known to defect. Defection, then, can have the unjust motive of greed or the just motive of retaliation. To establish cooperation, observers should distinguish both motives for defection and respond more cooperatively to the latter. We propose that the expression of emotions may facilitate this inferential process. Indeed, in two laboratory studies participants inferred that defection out of anger or disappointment was a just response to a defector and they responded more cooperatively than when no emotion was communicated. Moreover, participants inferred that defectors who evoked disappointment instead of anger had a relatively positive reputation. We conclude that emotions help establish cooperation through indirect reciprocity. Highlights ► Anger and disappointment signal who have defected in indirect reciprocity. ► Expressing anger or disappointment helps justify one’s defection against a defector. ► Defection out of anger or disappointment elicits relatively cooperative responses. ► Disappointment signals that a defector’s reputation is more positive than does anger. ► Anger and disappointment function as lubricants of indirect reciprocity. zitiert von 19
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(2011): Culture-specific concepts of politeness. Indirectness and politeness in English, Hebrew and Korean requests. In: Intercultural Pragmatics 8 (3). DOI: 10.1515/iprg.2011.018
Abstract: Pragmatic clarity and politeness have been the two major factors in pragmatic competence rules since Grice (1975). Clarity and politeness have been claimed as complementary elements (Lakoff 1973) and politeness as the motivation for indirectness in requests (Searle 1975, 1979; Gordon and Lakoff 1975; Lakoff 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1989, 1990; Leech 1983; Brown and Levinson 1978, 1987). However, highly indirect strategies, e. g., hints, may also be perceived as lacking in politeness because of a lack of concern for pragmatic clarity (Blum-Kulka 1987). In order to compare indirectness and politeness scales in Korean, Hebrew, and English and to re-examine the link between indirectness and politeness cross-culturally, this study uses the theoretical and methodological framework of Blum-Kulka (1987) and Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper (1989). The study results show that neither non-conventional indirectness nor some strategies of conventional indirectness imply politeness in Korean and imply, in agreement with Yu (2002), that politeness is differently perceived cross-culturally. In particular, the results of the study show that the conventional indirect strategies such as Strong Hints, Mild Hints, and Suggestory Formulae in the nine request categories are not significantly correlated with politeness in Korean and that Performatives (Austin 1962) and Want Statements are perceived as direct but polite strategies in Korean. These results support that the degree and the concepts of politeness in Korean, Hebrew, and English are significantly different.
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(2011) : Listening to Sad Music While Seeing a Happy Robot Face In: Mutlu, Bilge; Bartneck, Christoph; Ham, Jaap; Evers, Vanessa; Kanda, Takayuki (Hg.): Social Robotics, 7072: Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), S. 173-182
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(2011) : Anthropomorphism And Social Robots: Setting Etiquette Expectations In: Hayes, Caroline C.; Miller, Christopher Allan (Hg.): Human-computer etiquette: Cultural expectations and the design implications they place on computers and technology: Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, S. 231-262
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Keywords: Anthropomorphisierung, doppelter Treffer, Emotionen, Erwartungen, Etikette, Etiquette as rules of expectation, Favoriten, frames, Gestik/Mimik, Konversationskonventionen als Etikette-Erwartungen, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Mensch-Technische Systeme, Modelle/Theorien, Observablen/Kriterien für sozial angemessenes Verhalten und dessen Bewertung, Ohne Abstract oder Text, Realtechnik, Roboter, Rollen, Situationsbedingter Kontext, Sozial Intelligente Agenten, Soziale Angemessenheit, Soziale Robotik, Sozialer Raum / Kultureller Kontext, Soziosensitive Systeme, Status / biologische Marker, Technik -
(2011): Affect prediction from physiological measures via visual stimuli. In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 69 (12), S. 801-819. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2011.07.005
Abstract: This study aims to predict different affective states via physiological measures with three types of computational models. An experiment was designed to elicit affective states with standardized affective pictures when multiple physiological signals were measured. Three data mining methods (i.e., decision rules, k-nearest neighbours, and decomposition tree) based on the rough set technique were then applied to construct prediction models from the extracted physiological features. We created three types of prediction models, i.e., gender-specific (male vs. female), culture-specific (Chinese vs. Indian vs. Western), and general models (participants with different genders and cultures as samples), and direct comparisons were made among these models. The best average prediction accuracies in terms of the F(1) measures (the harmonic mean of precision and recall) were 60.2%, 64.9%, 63.5% for the general models with 14, 21, and 42 samples, 78.0% for the female models, 75.1% for the male models, 72.0% for the Chinese models, 73.0% for the Indian models, and 76.5% for the Western models, respectively. These results suggested that the specific models performed better than did the general models. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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(2011) : Medical Technology in Smart Homes: Exploring the User's Perspective on Privacy, Intimacy and Trust: IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference workshops (COMPSACW), 2011: 18 - 22 July 2011, Munich, Germany ; proceedings: 2011 IEEE 35th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW): Munich, Germany: 7/18/2011 - 7/22/2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC); Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference; IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference; Compsacw; IEEE International Workshop on Software Cybernetics (IWSC); IEEE International Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds (ONIT); IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA); IEEE International Workshop on Software Test Automation (STA); IEEE International Workshop on Component-Based Design of Resource-Constrained Systems (CORCS); IEEE International Workshop on Industrial Experience in Embedded System Design (IEESD); IEEE International Workshop on Applied Cloud Computing (CloudApp); IEEE International Workshop on Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS); IEEE International Workshop on Computer Forensics in Software Engineering (CFSE); IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS); IEEE International Workshop on Security Aspects of Process and Services Engineering (SAPSE); IEEE International Workshop on Service Science and Systems (SSS); IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Services (REFS); IEEE International Workshop on Program Debugging (IWPD): Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, S. 410-415
Abstract: This paper reports on a study exploring the attitudes of users towards video-based monitoring systems for long-term care of elderly or disabled people in smart home environments. The focus of the study was on investigating the willingness of users to accept medical technology in their homes and the specific conditions under which continuous monitoring would be acceptable. Using the questionnaire method, a total of 165 users (17-95 years) were examined regarding privacy, intimacy and trust issues for medical technology in homes. The results highlight trust and privacy as central requirements, especially when implemented within private spaces. The reported concerns were mostly insensitive to gender and age. Overall, it was revealed that acceptance issues and users' needs and wants should be seriously considered in order to successfully design new medical technologies.
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(2011): Ethics of using assistive technology in the care for community-dwelling elderly people: An overview of the literature. In: Aging & mental health 15 (4), S. 419-427. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2010.543662
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21500008 Abstract: Objectives: This article provides an overview of the international literature on the most important ethical considerations in the field of assistive technology (AT) in the care for community-dwelling elderly people, focused on dementia. Method: A systematic literature review was performed. Results: A total of 46 papers met the inclusion criteria. Three main themes were found. The first theme, personal living environment, involves the subthemes privacy, autonomy and obtrusiveness. The second theme, the outside world, involves the subthemes stigma and human contact. The third theme, the design of AT devices, involves the subthemes individual approach, affordability and safety. The often referred to umbrella term of ‘obtrusiveness’ is frequently used by many authors in the discussion, while a clear description of the concept is mostly absent. Conclusion: When it comes to AT use in the care for elderly people living at home, ethical debate appears not to be a priority. The little discussion there relies heavily on thick concepts such as autonomy and obtrusiveness which seem to complicate the debate rather than clarify it, because they contain many underlying ambiguous concepts and assumptions. Most encountered ethical objections originate from the view that people are, or should be, independent and self-determinant. It is questionable whether the view is correct and helpful in the debate on AT use in the care for (frail) elderly people. Other ethical approaches that view people as social and reciprocal might be more applicable and shed a different light on the ethical aspects of AT use.
2010
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19th International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2010). Viareggio, Italy: IEEE
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2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (2010). 2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: IEEE
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2010 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Financial Engineering (2010). Chongqing, China: IEEE
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2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (2010). Osaka, Japan: IEEE
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2010 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (2010). 2010 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. Vina del Mar, Chile: IEEE
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2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2010). 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Anchorage, Alaska, USA: IEEE
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2010 IEEE International Professional Comunication Conference (2010). 2010 IEEE International Professional Comunication Conference. Enschede, The Netherlands: IEEE
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2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2010). Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE
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2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (2010). Canterbury, United Kingdom: IEEE
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Public speaking for psychologists: A lighthearted guide to research presentations, job talks, and other opportunities to embarrass yourself (2010). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association
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(2010): Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: an fMRI investigation. In: Journal of cognitive neuroscience 22 (1), S. 97-108. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21187 Abstract: The ability to infer others' thoughts, intentions, and feelings is regarded as uniquely human. Over the last few decades, this remarkable ability has captivated the attention of philosophers, primatologists, clinical and developmental psychologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. Most would agree that the capacity to reason about others' mental states is innately prepared, essential for successful human social interaction. Whether this ability is culturally tuned, however, remains entirely uncharted on both the behavioral and neural levels. Here we provide the first behavioral and neural evidence for an intracultural advantage (better performance for same- vs. other-culture) in mental state decoding in a sample of native Japanese and white American participants. We examined the neural correlates of this intracultural advantage using fMRI, revealing greater bilateral posterior superior temporal sulci recruitment during same- versus other-culture mental state decoding in both cultural groups. These findings offer preliminary support for cultural consistency in the neurological architecture subserving high-level mental state reasoning, as well as its differential recruitment based on cultural group membership.
Keywords: Adolescent, Adult, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Brain Mapping, Cross-Cultural Comparison, European Continental Ancestry Group, Eye, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Prefrontal Cortex/anatomy & histology/physiology, Reaction Time/physiology, Social Perception, Temporal Lobe/anatomy & histology/physiology, Theory of Mind/physiology, Young Adult -
(2010): Immanent Non-Algorithmic Rules: An Ontological Study of Social Rules. In: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40 (3), S. 289-313. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00426.x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00426.x Abstract: The notion of rule seems to be almost as contested as it is central to the social sciences. Whereas classic works of sociology tend to consider rules as a central concept of sociological analysis (Durkheim 1982/1894; Giddens 1984; 1979; Parsons 1964/1951; Weber 1978/1922), ethnomethodologists criticize their taken‐for‐grantedness and propose rather to view the continuous reproduction of rules as a problematic topic of enquiry (Douglas 1971; Garfinkel 1967; Heritage 1984; Zimmerman 1971). As Garfinkel puts it: [functionalist] social science theorists . . . have used the fact of standardization to conceive the character and consequences of actions that comply with standardized expectancies. Generally they have acknowledged but otherwise neglected the fact that by these same actions persons discover, create and sustain this standardization. (Garfinkel, 1967: 66–7, cited in Heritage 1984, text modified)
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Albert, Gert; Sigmund, Steffen (Hg.) (2010): Soziologische Theorie kontrovers. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
Abstract: In ihrem 50. Sonderheft widmet sich die Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie dem Schwerpunktthema Soziologische Theorie. Das Sonderheft folgt der Grundannahme, dass soziologische Theorieansätze niemals für sich allein stehen, sondern ihre Formulierung meist in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit alternativen Forschungsprogrammen finden. Insofern lebt die Soziologie von Kontroversen, diese prägen ihre spezifische Gestalt. Ziel dieses Sonderheftes ist es, eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer soziologischer Theorie zu präsentieren sowie auch den sie prägenden Debatten einen Raum zu bieten mit dem Ziel, die künftige Entwicklung in fruchtbarer Weise zu beeinflussen.
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(2010): Intelligent Virtual Agents. 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 20-22, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Online verfügbar unter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6
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(2010): “You Have No Idea What You are Talking About!. ” From e-disagreement to e-impoliteness in two online fora. In: Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture 6 (1). DOI: 10.1515/jplr.2010.004
Abstract: This paper reports on an ongoing project in the area of intentional impoliteness as perceived by the participants and as marked in discourse in the asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) context. We focus on occurrences of “impolite talk” and examine the context bound nature of communicative strategies adopted by the interactants in order to deliberately do impoliteness. We also analyze how impoliteness is lexicalized in relation to the inherent characteristics of the CMC context. Specifically, this paper draws on a sample of data from two Communities of Practice (CofP): Greek students and professional academics. 200 posts were collected from interactions where dispute occurred. Special attention is paid to the use of spelling and punctuation and one interactional discourse particle, namely [re] (untranslatable), in unmitigated confrontational disagreement that breaches the norms of unmarked behaviour in the two CofPs. Our preliminary findings show that (im)politeness is firmly embedded in the micro (discourse) and macro (social) context. The impoliteness strategies employed by the interactants indicate different judgements of what constitutes marked behaviour and are contingent on factors such as the overall purpose of communication, the co-constructed norms of the forum, the relationship between participants and the dynamic group identities which the interactants call upon in any given situation.
Keywords: Art des Kommunikationsmediums, breach of social interaction, computervermittelte Kommunikation, Disziplin, doppelter Treffer, Höflichkeit, Höflichkeitsforschung, Impolite Talk, Impoliteness, Informations- & Kommunikationstechnik, Linguistik, Mediationstheorie, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), online-communities, online-Foren, Online-Kommunikation, Philosophie, Politeness, Realtechnik, Situationsbedingter Kontext, social media, Soziale Angemessenheit, Sprachgebrauch, Technik, Technikbezug, Technikphilosophie -
(2010): Gender differences of children's social skills and parenting using Interaction Rating Scale (IRS). In: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2 (2), S. 260-268. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.008
Abstract: Background: The purpose of this paper is to describe the gender differences of the Interaction Rating Scale (IRS) as an evidence-based practical index of children's social skills and parenting. Methods: The participants in our study, which was conducted as part of a Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) cohort study project, were 370 dyads of children with their caregivers were followed up and surveyed at aged 18, 30, and 42 month. The participants completed the five minute interaction session and were observed using the IRS. Results: The results indicated the gender differences of IRS scores. Girls got rather high score at all ages. IRS can measure children's social skill development and parenting with high validity. Along with the qualitative differences of interaction between boys and girls, the IRS is effective in describing features of social skill development and parenting. Conclusion: The IRS provides further evidence of the fact that in order to study children's social skill development, it is important to evaluate various features of the caregiver-child interaction as a predictor of social skills. zitiert von 21